[rilita]

Yes it is. Many companies doing direct hire ( going past recruiters entirely ) will drop you as a candidate entirely if you ask for salary too soon in the process.

[Karunamon]

Sounds like another awful BS filter with a high false positive rate, like the outfits that require you to submit a resume, and then painstakingly duplicate that information into a set of form fields (one or the other sure, but both?)

For the most part, people are working to get paid. I see absolutely no need to sugar coat or dance around this simple fact.

[chadgeidel]

Excellent. I wouldn't want to work for that company anyway. Recruitment goes both ways.

[s73v3r]

Sucks for them. They came to me, they need me, not the other way around. Thus, they have to appease me. That's the way markets work.