[Baypiggies] Salary Ranges

[wesley chun]

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. :-)


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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