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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by tomp on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:16AM (#27547306)
No it doesn’t. The company is fundamentally in a much better negotiating position (they have much more data on salaries) and carry way less risk than the employee (a company has many employees, each employee has just one job).
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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by BurningFrog on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:15PM (#27551882)
I see this kind of argument a lot, and I don't think it's valid in general. People confuse "big" with "having power over me", or something.

In this case, obviously a job seeker does have many possible employers to apply to.

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Re:Rethinking Triplebyte by CRConrad on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:30PM (#27681317)
In each negotiation about a position, the company is negotiating only about one of its many positions; the candidate[1] about what will (usually) be their only job. And companies usually, AFAIK, get a lot more applications[1] per position than each applicant[1] gets offers per job search.

So no, AFAICS you are wrong and the original thesis of "the company holds the advantage" is correct.

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[1]: Consider the connotations of those words.

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