> I do not understand how you can lowball or downlevel people at scale A common tactics is to enforce YoE requirements aggressively --- basically the jokes alo

> I do not understand how you can lowball or downlevel people at scale A common tactics is to enforce YoE requirements aggressively --- basically the jokes along the lines of "10 YoE w/ k8s". These days they do it less blatantly (i.e. the specifics are not written in the JD) but the spirit remains. > The only hard thing is frankly balancing salary vs interest I can only say from my recent experience that this is a simplified model. Not saying this is wrong, but some circumstances call for analysis of other factors, such as those involving career path planning. Wouldn't go too deep here but the trick is a lowball'd and/or downlevel'd offer at BigTech/FAANG might actually remain desirable. This unfortunately reinforces their (predatory) behavior, but such is the force of the market after all...