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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:39PM (#28791748)
Has anyone (OK, any SW dev in the US) ever done this? I've been in the industry for almost 30 years and no prospective employer has ever asked me what my salary was.
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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by LandR on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:04PM (#28801460)
Not in the US, but in the UK all my jobs have asked previous salary. What's more ridiculous was one position where the recruiter was trying to convince me to take a job with a company at a lower salary than I wanted. His argument was your last salary was X so the new company aren't going to pay you y, because y was too much higher than X...
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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by loeg on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:54PM (#28791917)
They've always asked me. But they've never asked for a W-2 to prove it.
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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by wincy on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:51PM (#28791878)
I’ve had a few recruiters ask me. I don’t tell them anymore.
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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by zenithd on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:04PM (#28792056)
Yes, I've done this once. I was moving from the SW industry to another industry that doesn't pay nearly as well. I was asking for less than 1/5th of my salary, and they thought the number was too high. I offered my current salary to prove "we're both experiencing quite a bit of pain here..."
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