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Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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post #352

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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).

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.

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.

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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post #128

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A small bit of feedback here. I tried TripleByte a couple of years ago and the experience was really polished. I passed the interview and got great detailed feedback which I really appreciated. However, I dropped out completely because TripleByte wouldn't let me see companies without entering in a desired comp number. My recruiter at triplebyte said I could just put in "$1 or $1,000,000" to get past it, but that just…

> Just Google "recruiter won't proceed without desired salary" and you'll understand how many folks dislike that question. It's incredible how mileages vary. I recently had to strike companies off my list which demanded to know my last salary . I offered them my salary expectations, but they would absolutely not accept that, and preferred to take the fact that I would not tell them the exact salary at my last positio…

> (This was German-speaking Europe)

In which case the correct answer is "Das geht Sie überhaupt nichts an."

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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post #412

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If you want people to take your point seriously you should probably learn how to communicate it.

what does astroturf mean?

It's a brand of artificial lawn for sports arenas, plastic "grass", which has given rise to the idiom "astroturf campaign" = "fake grassroots campaign".
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