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Glassdoor also doesn't report actual income and wages in the field as a way to help lowball the brackets. I once saw it say a Senior Backend Developer was only worth 120K... I was shocked considering I know Amazon will pay you up to 250 with bonus.
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If I think I get paid more than you in the same role it's absolutely in my interest to keep that information from you. With departmental budgets in mind, you receiving a raise may limit the total compensation available to me when I negotiate my own.
Ever heard of the allegory “I capponi di Renzo” from the Promessi Sposi novel by Alessandro Manzoni? Look it up
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If I think I get paid more than you in the same role it's absolutely in my interest to keep that information from you. With departmental budgets in mind, you receiving a raise may limit the total compensation available to me when I negotiate my own.
Ever heard of the allegory “I capponi di Renzo” from the Promessi Sposi novel by Alessandro Manzoni? Look it up
Glassdoor is a completely flawed premise. Employers have almost complete compensation data and because we value anonymity more than ability to negotiate, our data is flawed. Employers might well directly know what you got paid at your previous company. Many companies are able to purchase previous employment salary data, which I believe Equifax sells directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 Here is a gr…
In Norway you can lookup anyone's tax information. You can see who looks up your tax information, though, it is publicly available as long as you log on to government sites. So basically everyone's salary from two years back is public information. It is often used by the press to check how much the richest people pay in taxes (or rather how badly they contribute by dodging taxes). I've never heard of employers using…
See “What the tax lists contain?” at https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/forms/search-the-tax-lists/
Glassdoor also doesn't report actual income and wages in the field as a way to help lowball the brackets. I once saw it say a Senior Backend Developer was only worth 120K... I was shocked considering I know Amazon will pay you up to 250 with bonus.
Amazon would be an outlier wouldn't it?
As a marketer who helped manage various companies' reputation online, I can tell you that Glassdoor is pay-to-play. If you pay them the subscription fee, and you get negative reviews, whether "true" or not, you can challenge most and get them removed. I thought most people would understand their business model explicitly relies on getting companies to pay a fee to own their page (and in turn they have to keep those c…
I can confirm this experience. At a previous job the management team (of which I was a member) would regularly review glassdoor reviews as part of our employee and candidate feedback. We had a healthy attitude toward employee satisfaction, but someone noticed you can flag a review as disputed (or "under review" or whatever the term is) and whilst it remains in this state, it is hidden from search results. Even for wh…
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Ever heard of the allegory “I capponi di Renzo” from the Promessi Sposi novel by Alessandro Manzoni? Look it up
Don't be daft, my employer is not my adversary.
You think you are in a zero sum relationship with your co-workers, but not your boss/company?
The word negotiation indicates two parties with conflicting interests reaching an agreement. You don't negotiate with your co-worker, you negotiate with an HR department. You are literally in conflict with your employer. Your employer benefits by paying you the minimum possible, and you benefit by being paid the maximum possible.
You and your co-worker benefit by breaking open the companies books and knowing how much they could be paying you but aren't.
Glassdoor is a completely flawed premise. Employers have almost complete compensation data and because we value anonymity more than ability to negotiate, our data is flawed. Employers might well directly know what you got paid at your previous company. Many companies are able to purchase previous employment salary data, which I believe Equifax sells directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 Here is a gr…
Isn’t it illegal in the US for an employer to share your compensation data with third parties? Or do they skirt the rules by “anonymizing” it? > we live in a culture of "we shouldn't talk about compensation." Yeah especially now that the cat is out of the bag, but restricted to employers. Such a data set should absolutely be made available to workers. Information symmetry is critical for a functioning market. And cap…