I disagree, I believe one should just state what they expect. It wastes less time for everyone. If you take a guy through two or three interviews, decide to hir

I disagree, I believe one should just state what they expect. It wastes less time for everyone. If you take a guy through two or three interviews, decide to hire him, make an opening offer that's near the top of the posted salary range, and he comes back demanding 1.5x-2x that, you've just wasted a lot of time for everyone. I usually ask in the first interview what the candidate expects to be paid. If I slip and forget to do this, I'd hope the candidate would ask what we expect to pay him. Much better to do this than try to skirt around it -- weird questions like "what neighborhood do most employees live in?" would turn me off for sure.