[Simon_ORourke]

About a month back a manager on my team was hiring for a senior dev role - she was talking to HR about the job spec, and HR recommended only advertizing the role as a junior dev "since senior/principal devs will invariably apply". Bleak is the word!

[em-bee]

huh? what would be the benefit of that strategy? being able to low ball the offers because a senior dev applying for a junior position must be desperate?

[Simon_ORourke]

When I was told I immediately presumed that it's some low balling strategy alright.

"Well I appreciate you were paid X as a senior dev in your last role, but the compensation range for this more JUNIOR role is Y".

[hollerith]

So the company instituting the RTO mandate feels altruistic towards the companies its engineers might jump to next?