Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay

Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by cloudjacker on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:40PM (#12212180)

I disagree, there was a time when the finance community similarly valued themselves with the broader market until some people realized the numeric dollar value they could create. And the rest is history. Its time for software engineers to collectively realize their expanding relevance to value creation in actual numeric value.

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by eru on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @09:16PM (#12214831)

Why collectively? Did the finance people need anything collective?

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by cloudjacker on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:19AM (#12218056)

Not sure how to answer that

It's routine to get bonuses larger than your annual salary in finance, specially in investment banking roles, this is not routine in software engineering

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by eru on Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:13AM (#12223941)

Only the total compensation is important for me. If anything, I'd rather get a stable one than a variable one. (Variable is only better, if the expected value is higher.)

In any case, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212180 you said something like

- finance people used to get normal amounts of money, now they get more - hence, software people need to do something as a collective.

I don't see how the first implies the second. Especially since the finance people didn't do anything as a collective, did they?

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by cloudjacker on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @12:34PM (#12219235)

but many forms of greater liquidity could be possible for potential value producing software engineering roles

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