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by learc83 1578 days ago
Companies do this all the time. There’s generally no problem with it. We have an opening for an staff engineer at work, but we’d settle for a senior engineer.

We definitely wouldn’t hire an unqualified person as staff and just pay them less.

Or an overqualified person as senior and pay them way more. That just doesn’t make sense.

Companies also routinely have permanently open positions without exact numbers of positions.