Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer

Re:Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer by sliverstorm on Thursday December 19, 2013 @03:13PM (#6937504)

Of course on the other hand it could mean your salary haunts you during future interviews and at future jobs. Salary Negotiation 101 is, don't tell them what your old salary was, right? But now the cards are all on the table, and they'll try to say "Well, I see you made $X, we'll beat that by 4%"

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Re:Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer by lstamour on Thursday December 19, 2013 @05:21PM (#6938349)

There's a difference between salary history and salary expectations.

And if they had the nerve to Google your past salary, then I think you could turn that around and ask for a similar matrix to what you had at your last, more transparent company.

If they refuse, and you can't justify the salary to yourself given the situation, you're probably better off staying at the transparent company. There's more to a job than money, after all.

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Re:Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer by sliverstorm on Thursday December 19, 2013 @07:26PM (#6939029)

You can try this or that tactic, and you can say "If they googled your salary, don't work for them", but best I can tell there's no angle where this is better for the prospective job seeker. The seeker can always elect to divulge his previous compensation if he likes; in this situation that option is removed. He now has fewer options, fewer plays.

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