Apologies if this is too off topic for the hiring thread.
As a community, I think we can agree that not everyone is great at negotiating salary, and this leads to unequal treatment. Out of kindness for our fellow HNers, perhaps we should ask, or even demand, of those who post here offering jobs to put a salary range on their job posts. I think that would help a lot of people not only get an idea if the job is worth applying for, but help people who aren't good at negotiating have a baseline to start from.
The companies offering jobs have a huge information advantage in knowing how much they pay other people and for some of the bigger companies, have access to salary reports across the industry. They also already know what their budget is. Why not ask them to share that a bit?
Agreed. Too many companies are bragging about how much $ they raised in their last round. Too few are sharing the $ they plan to offer for the job they're trying so hard to fill.
Could we also please specify how remote a remote position is? It's a waste of time for both sides when a position is advertised as remote but constrained within a specific country or state.
Thank you for pointing that out. I've just edited my job posting [0] after reading this to include salary and say it's based on experience/market and not negotiation.
At many companies, the offer is made with no negotiation on the table. I suppose some of this is posturing, but the companies acting on good-intent are saying "no negotation -- because we know this is a good/great rate for your experience in the current market".
> Salary $110-200k based on experience (not negotiation)
What does “experience” encompass?
For example most of the companies dismiss my seven years of open-source contributions (it's — at best — a nice bonus). They don't care about anything that isn't what they call “industry experience”.
Hiring managers/recruiters may filter those out, but I think if you're talking to an engineer, they can kind of discern whether those open-source contributions are meaningfully equivalent to yoe. I was working as a software engineer up until I started the company, so it's 100% meaningful signal to me!
All of my agreements. The Devops Engineers slack (devopsengineers.com) has been enforcing this recently, and we've had a notable uptick in the quality of job postings.
As a community, I think we can agree that not everyone is great at negotiating salary, and this leads to unequal treatment. Out of kindness for our fellow HNers, perhaps we should ask, or even demand, of those who post here offering jobs to put a salary range on their job posts. I think that would help a lot of people not only get an idea if the job is worth applying for, but help people who aren't good at negotiating have a baseline to start from.
The companies offering jobs have a huge information advantage in knowing how much they pay other people and for some of the bigger companies, have access to salary reports across the industry. They also already know what their budget is. Why not ask them to share that a bit?