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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by dboreham on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:43PM (#27546550)
Because then the candidate will be upset when you lowball them because they're not as strong or experienced as your range max merits.
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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by duxup on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:58PM (#27546635)
And you won't feel the same when someone picks a number?
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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by pdimitar on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:27AM (#27549018)
That seems to be the going theory in these circles, yes. If there were no initial expectations then the candidate can't feel low-balled.
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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by BurningFrog on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:16PM (#27551900)
Might be a way to filter out the Perpetually Angry Engineers...
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