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[–] 88 points 4 days ago (11 children)

So, he wants to hire a person who is valued at 135k for 90-110k.

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  • [–] 51 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    he wants to hire that 135k person at 75k.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 days ago

    No, it's even worse, what he wants that 135k person to go through the application process.

    The guy seems to be from a placement agency so he doesn't actually care that the 135k applicant is going to tell the hiring manager to fuck of at the end of the application process when they get a 110k offer and thus not get hired, what he cares about is being seen sending tons of applicants.

    He literally has different motivations than those doing the hiring.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    I interpret this as the company willing to pay more if there's an exceptional match, but posting ranges practically filters these profiles out.

    But yeah, I'd be happier to actually see these ranges, way less room for companies to lowball you.

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  • [–] 37 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Not posting salaries shows an utter lack of respect for my time.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I remember when I was working as a contractor that I would simply not deal with certain placement agencies after they sent me towards positions which were way below my rate and wasted my time on it.

    In fact it's generally a pretty good red flag on an agency or potential contract that they're not willing to tell you early in the process what's the range of rates for the job.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago*

    Yeah when I was working with recruiters the first question out of my mouth was "what's it pay?" Eventually got down to primarily going through one agency where the guy knew not to fuck me around but I made up for any annoyance that may have caused by being reliable. That was the only recruiter I ever dealt with who gave me multiple postings at a time to choose from.

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