[Baypiggies] Salary Ranges

[Luca Pellicoro]

On Wednesday, February 17, 2010, wesley chun <wescpy at gmail.com> wrote:
> i'd write a script to keep on submitting to the machine until i don't
> get rejected in order to see what value is stored in
> tiny_amount_we_want_to_pay. :-)

I'd use selenium so it looks like a real browser from their end.
Putting in garbage data until I got the right number. Maybe even
masking my ip.

>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Roderick Llewellyn
> <roderick at sanfransystems.com> wrote:
>> I applied to one job (Calypso Technology, in the financial communications
>> space), for which I had very good qualifications IMHO. They had a typical
>> automated form, which required about 30-40 minutes of cutting and pasting
>> from my resume, as it had separate entry fields for each job, each employer,
>> dates, etc (rather than just pasting my entire resume), and also asked for
>> skills ratings for various technologies. They had the requirement of filling
>> in a numerical desired salary (you could not proceed without doing so). I
>> entered $100,000, not believing in low-balling either. At 9:34 in the
>> morning, moments after submitting the form, I got an automated reply
>> acknowledging my submssion. At 9:37 -- three minutes later -- I got a
>> rejection notice from the same mailing address. Obviously no human looked at
>> my qualifications. I was rejected by a computer program that said "IF
>> desired_salary > tiny_amount_we_want_to_pay THEN Reject(candidate)".  The
>> good news is it took only 3 minutes instead of waiting around for weeks and
>> never hearing back from the employer, which is more typical American
>> practice. Should I have "low-balled" the salary requirement? Tried to
>> out-guess their program?
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