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> Consider the large companies with hiring processes intended to try to acquire each employee at the minimum compensation each individual will accept. Not alwa
by ghodith 3y ago
> Consider the large companies with hiring processes intended to try to acquire each employee at the minimum compensation each individual will accept.
Not always the case. When interviewing for my first FAANG job (coming from defense) I requested what I thought was a reasonable salary, but turned out to be a low-ball offer. The recruiter came back and told me that I wasn't asking for enough and that they wouldn't pay someone so below the average for their level.
- armada651 3y agoThis is not the company being generous to you. This is a recruiter who knows that if they accepted such a low ball offer you would quit as soon as you googled the average salary for your role. They still want you to make a low-ball offer, but something closer to the average.
- neilv 3y agoAlso, if it's a third-party recruiter, they want to feed a stream of generic candidates, and at a good commission each (so one oddball with too-low requirements only hurts both)?
- dilyevsky 3y agoRecruiter at bigco dgaf what happens after you sign the offer. More likely it was just company policy - they have more or less rigid pay bands for each level and TP was outside of those.
- armada651 3y agoRight, but that company policy is there for a reason. Not out of generosity, but because they don't want to invest time and money into people who are likely to quit over a compensation that is so far below the average.
- dilyevsky 3y agoWe're not disagreeing - I'm just providing more context because I know some folks (lets be real here - it's pretty much all of them) like to spin it like they're looking out for the candidate when this happens obviously to improve the closing odds. It's basically "good cop/bad cop" routine.