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Does anything need to? Imagine you are looking at two job postings that are identical except for the salary range. One says 30K-300K DOE and the other says 150K
by burnished 5y ago
Does anything need to? Imagine you are looking at two job postings that are identical except for the salary range. One says 30K-300K DOE and the other says 150K-180K DOE. Are you going to trust the first one? I sure wouldn't.
And if you are right and that becomes a problem, well, shit. Back to the drawing board I guess.
- sokoloff 5y agoIf I wouldn't consider moving for anything less than $250K/yr, I’d consider the first one and not the second one. I'm not sure I'd trust a company who thought that software engineer value creation only varied by a maximum of 20% either. Tight ranges cut against companies differently than broad ranges.
- burnished 5y agoI don't seriously believe that you want to apply for a job, knowing you set the bar at 250K/yr, when the posting set the bar at 30k/yr.
- crvdgc 5y ago> I'm not sure I'd trust a company who thought that software engineer value creation only varied by a maximum of 20% either. But hiring is not evaluating a software engineer in general, rather it's to find a person for a specific role and a specific set of work to be done, a tighter range could mean better estimation.