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If you apply for 30 jobs, advance to 5 interviews, and receive 1 offer, all while your savings (do you have savings?) are being depleted on living expenses and
by swatcoder 4y ago
If you apply for 30 jobs, advance to 5 interviews, and receive 1 offer, all while your savings (do you have savings?) are being depleted on living expenses and college debt, are you really on even footing for fair negotiation? Or are you in a position to "take what you can get" and thereby find yourself vulnerable to an offer well below market norms?
We use the word exploitative to capture that sort of scenario. It suggests that the employer is exploiting candidates' extenuating circumstances. It's generally not sustainable for either party and the side effect for the employer is high churn and low productivity/quality.
- systemvoltage 4y agoThis is a made up scenario that fabricates "exploitation", but even in this case I disagree. If there are no jobs out there, then tough luck. You are still getting paid vastly more than probably 99.99% of the world's jobs. The entitlement is simply astonishing and incongruent, completely untenable even in the most charitable interpretation. Furthermore, I believe that in jobs like this, companies cannot afford to hire someone that is going to take 8 months parental leave, for example. That would be consider exploitation of the employer by the employee in my view.