New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary

Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by wpietri on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:06PM (#15503650)

As a manager, it's my job to open those cans of worms. It's also my job to be continually helping people improve, so that issues like this never get to the "can of worms" stage.

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by hota_mazi on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:10PM (#15503687)

Surely as a manager you understand that pitting people against each other is a recipe for disaster and not a path toward improvement.

In other words, never say "John's code is cleaner than yours", say "I suggest you work on polishing these pull requests".

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by wpietri on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:22PM (#15503773)

I think there are plenty of ways to tell person A that they should learn from person B without pitting them against one another.

Normally I talk about this in terms of rubrics for roles and levels. E.g., it's not about Amy versus Betty; it's about how Amy can get from SWE 1 to SWE 2. In the course of that discussion I am totally willing to say, "Pay more attention to the code Betty submits for a code review. She's a solid SWE 2 and you could learn from the way she does X, Y, and Z."

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