He says the hiring market for engineers is hot… is it? Maybe for certain rare species of AI specialists, but for anyone else the going looks a good bit tougher now than it did even a couple years ago.
Also, he spends a fair bit of time encouraging people not to reveal their former salary, but in all but a few rare cases your former salary is available to your new employer via data sharing service providers. The HR team at my employer now asks applicants for their former salary strictly as a test of their honesty. And yes, have kicked competitive candidates out for giving a false number. Declining to give the number is fine, but does not create any negotiating advantage.
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They can find out your salary, but they won’t know your stock, which has much higher variance for software engineers.
He says the hiring market for engineers is hot… is it? Maybe for certain rare species of AI specialists, but for anyone else the going looks a good bit tougher now than it did even a couple years ago.
Also, he spends a fair bit of time encouraging people not to reveal their former salary, but in all but a few rare cases your former salary is available to your new employer via data sharing service providers. The HR team at my employer now asks applicants for their former salary strictly as a test of their honesty. And yes, have kicked competitive candidates out for giving a false number. Declining to give the number is fine, but does not create any negotiating advantage.