Yeah, that's roughly how my conversation went, too. It's too bad, because if the role had had competitive comp (and, I strongly suspect they wouldn't have been

Yeah, that's roughly how my conversation went, too. It's too bad, because if the role had had competitive comp (and, I strongly suspect they wouldn't have been competitive, based on what little info I was able to drag out of the recruiter), I would have totally gone through with the interview process. Oh well. The only way I know of to break through that kind of BS gamesmanship is to do a lot of research and determine what the market salary distribution is for comparable roles. Sites like comp.fyi and payscale.com have been helpful for me here. BTW, if you just want to get offer numbers on comp.fyi, use 0 years at company. If you need more data, you can try including 1 or 2 years at company, but, if you start including too much, you're going to lose the original offer numbers in the noise.