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Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback by perlgeek on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:39AM (#21843364)
That's a cultural thing in the company I work for (or maybe broader in Germany, dunno), where some people think that if they start to negotiate, they might lowball candidates, and then they leave after half a year or so.

We try to hire more long term (we aim for 5+ years retention), dunno if that's related, or if there is any evidence to back this procedure.

I find it a bit weird myself, which is why as a candidate I'd like to know about it :-)

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Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback by precisioncoder on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:36AM (#21843982)
As an employee I found a nice hack around that. The employer made an offer and I made a counter offer, the employer said he couldn't meet it and I explicitly told him it was negotiable. He thought about it for a couple days and found a way to hack his system to give me more and I got something around the middle of our offers. We both ended up happy in the end, I'm still there.
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