• helloworld55@lemm.ee
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    14 minutes ago

    That’s the way it works? Starting out, entry level job? Get entry level resposibilty, and entry level pay. Same for midlevel, and senior positions. But this breaks down once you get to the executives. It seems like the less experience you have, better pay

    • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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      4 hours ago

      I applied for a dev position with a salary range with the higher end fitting my requirements. I checked off basically all of the boxes in the job announcement as I had worked as a consultant for that very company in that same position for several years prior. After interviewing rounds and a programming task, the interviewers were very happy with me and were eager to get me started. However, their offer was in the lower ~20% of the salary range. When I asked for the reason, I was told that they had to cut back costs, so they couldn’t afford to pay me more.

      So basically, the salary range was just bait to receive applications.

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    10 hours ago

    Sometimes the person telling you that during the interview is subtly telling you to run.

    • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 hours ago

      This is exactly why I’m so goddamn happy I’m in a union, we fought off the fucking cunts and won. Secured significantly better conditions and guaranteed raises for several thousand people all in one go. It was a pretty narrow vote though, they literally hired a guy to generate internal propaganda about how good getting a pay cut was going to be…

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        9 hours ago

        Were they peddling the tax bracket bullshit? “If you make more than $X, then you have to pay an extra Y% in taxes [but I’m not going to mention that that’s only on amounts over $X].”

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          1 hour ago

          In my country in the EU we don’t use brackets anymore. It’s just linear. In the current age of computers and magic it can be calculated with a simple press of a button.

        • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 hours ago

          No nothing like that, they just offered the teeny tiniest little raises when we’d had 7+% inflation so our wages were effectively set back 2-3 years.

          The ceo gave himself a $2 million bonus or something insane.