[paulsutter]

This is a lead gen website / SEO spam, exposed by this gem halfway down the page:

“I’m a salary negotiation expert. My goal is to maximize my clients’ salaries with simple, proven salary negotiation tactics.”

Which is hilarious really

[guitarbill]

Is it hilarious? This kind of negotiation doesn't come easy to most of us, and it's taken me ages to learn by myself. I've probably lost out to a lot of salary just because I didn't know how to negotiate. If someone could have taught me that, I would have paid for it.

Also, the article is good by itself, no?

[mindcrime]

Links to ArXiv.org papers or the like aside, most links these days are - to some extent - a bit of "content marketing" for something or someone. But some contain more useful information and insights than others. I actually found this piece relatively useful, in that the "realtor metaphor" really gave me a new insight into the mindset of a recruiter.

Honestly, I'd never taken the think to think through the math and realize the extent to which they care about volume more than optimizing any single deal. Thinking about it that way does shed some interesting light on things, IMO.

Anyway, I wouldn't call this post spam. It's not exactly long-form journalism or a "newly discovered work by Thoreau" but it doesn't really claim to be so either.

[personjerry]

I think there’s a lot of solid advice in these posts, and they aren’t clickbaiting into buying anything. Check out the article about not disclosing salary, I liked that one a lot.

Could you explain why it’s such a problem to disclose what he does?

[paulsutter]

The problem is that his stories are interlinked repetitive direct marketing spam-copy. He has one or two points (don’t disclose a range, make them do it), and repeats those two points over and over within a phony story about a recruiter.

[tinymollusk]

I agree, especially given the length. Something about the tone seemed off as well -- here's the summary:

Recruiters typically receive a percentage of your salary as commission, but they also optimizing for "time it takes to make a placement".

[gumby]

I don’t see it as spam. It wasn’t pushed into your mailbox/feed and by saying that you can decide if it adds or detracts from his credibility.