Ya, unless there's a "price floor" you know is at least satisfactory (to say nothing of optimality or actual worth) that is immediately apparent before you even

Ya, unless there's a "price floor" you know is at least satisfactory (to say nothing of optimality or actual worth) that is immediately apparent before you even get to the apply button, thats complete bullshit. Time is money and companies need to stop treating people like theirs is worthless and thus not deserving of being able to zoom! by seeing the going rate immediately and not even having to doll up and go out to meet them tete-a-tete. Edit: also, on the conjectural side, the fact we need to use words like "optimistically" and "pessimism" or the like/speak in these superlatives is indicative of how hokey all this is. It should be the most natural thing in the world, like a restaurant menu with [gasp] prices, instead there's this Apple culture of secrecy which is compelyely inappropriate for at least a public labour market. It really is bullshit and ripe for harsh regulation taking out the biggest bullshitters and beneficiaries of the current system.