> It also penalizes good negotiators, which might be a socially positive thing but I certainly wouldn't like it. It probably penalizes snazzy dressers and char

> It also penalizes good negotiators, which might be a socially positive thing but I certainly wouldn't like it. It probably penalizes snazzy dressers and charismatic people too, which snazzy dressers and charismatic people probably don't like. But at some point you have to ask, what is a company optimizing for? It has limited resources, X dollars to spread amongst Y people. If you optimize a system to give a lion share of that to good negotiators, its not just socially worse, its economically worse for your business. You might find yourself with a hiring system that ends up with good negotiators instead of good engineers (if an engineer that is socially awkward receives a better offer from somewhere else, he may choose that offer instead of using it to "play" you to get his salary up).