[UweSchmidt]

Another one of those, huh?

The only way to find out what kind of salary is possible is to ask for numbers that get rejected a few times. Additionally, there are many companies out there, with a surprising variety of job parameters. Finally, many people are not good or comfortable with the application process, so you need to practice.

This means you have to apply to many companies and have to have many job interviews. Long, multi-round interview processes and take-home assignments - reasonable or not - make this very difficult and expensive for the employee.

These regular company blogposts seem to respond to the pushback of applicants and try and establish this kind of application process as a norm. Unfortunately this would decrease the market transparency for employees even more - many people go through their working lives underpaid and in subobtimal working conditions without knowing any better. This procedure also feels asymetric - in a time where software people are supposedly in demand, it's the employee who is supposed to jump through hoops to get a job.

[tptacek]

If you reached out at Latacora and asked "is there any way you'd be able to pay $X" before you did any of our challenges, we'd get you a quick, straight answer. Why wouldn't we? If you're outside the ballpark for us, working to recruit you isn't a good use of our time.