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Re:Salary Negotiation by nunez on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:20PM (#11833355)
The problem with this approach is that no matter how transparent you are or what numbers/ranges/data you give, the candidates on the other end will always think you're taking them for a trip. It's the same problem that car salespeople at "no-hassle" or "no-haggle" dealerships deal with. Even though they really cannot budge on their out-the-door price, you'll still have tons of people trying to eat at their already minimal profit margin.

I'm not sure that there is an individual solution to this problem. EVERY company (or most companies) would have to be ultra-transparent about their salaries before people can trust something like this, which works against how a lot of high-profile companies currently compensate (i.e. fixed salary ranges, highly variable bonuses)

Re:Salary Negotiation by swombat on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:59PM (#11833581)
There's definitely a problem there, I agree. In practice, the people that we take to that stage of the interview process typically have quite a lot of self-awareness and also know a fair bit about our company by then, so so far it's worked out alright. But I definitely see that that could be a problem with some people. As I said elsewhere it's not something any company can just implement without thinking about it and have it just work. It takes a lot of work in many areas of the business.