>99% of candidates don't even get into the salary discussion phase. So these are all people who have agreed to undertake your presumably time-consuming intervi

>99% of candidates don't even get into the salary discussion phase. So these are all people who have agreed to undertake your presumably time-consuming interview process without even a hint about financial compensation at the end of the tunnel? If so, it seems extremely likely that you are pre-screening out a huge pool of the most talented and intelligent developers. It takes a special kind of brainwashing to agree to jump through those kinds of hoops for a prize that is kept secret until the end of the process.