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That's some shady behavior though. The whole point of the law is to prevent companies from penalizing employees based on prior salaries. Wouldn't be surprising
by staunch 5y ago
That's some shady behavior though. The whole point of the law is to prevent companies from penalizing employees based on prior salaries. Wouldn't be surprising if Google was finding excuses to retract offers based on seeing that they "overbid" on someone's comp. If anyone has had suspicious stuff like this happen, it sounds like it'd make a great lawsuit.
Would be nice if some journalist(s) made a big stink out of Google finding a loophole in this employee protection law.
- mgraczyk 5y agoWell I'm pretty sure I did consent to it, at least.
- hypothesis 5y agoThe scenario I had in mind would pertain to California where they aren’t allowed to ask your salary history. So if one didn’t not disclose salary info, then offer was likely not based on that info (nor on work number info). In which case they can’t pull offer due to misleading salary info. However, all bets are likely off in states with no such protection…
- adwww 5y agoI'm currently interviewing for a new role, and I've already been told my expected salary is too low for me to be a senior engineer. Hardly my fault I didn't know to ask for a higher amount?! Will obviously be challenging this if I get an offer...
- kache_ 5y agojust work for 4 months and job hop. If they play games, play them too.