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Smooth DH Interview, Hostile HR Experience
Smooth DH Interview
– Exchange of professional experiences
– Discussion of main challenges in the profession
– Typical technical interview style
Hostile HR Experience
– Inability to understand responses
– Salary expectations question after already mentioned in application
– Refusal to disclose current salary
– HR hostility instead of rejecting candidature
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It could be a negging strategy. Maybe they really want to hire you…….. at a discount.
Can’t comment on what you perceived as “hostile”, but to be clear, you do understand what information they were asking for (your current package), and why…right?
Given how relevant that info was to the conversation, with HR actively working to try and understand what offer it might take to get the job done (hired), you plead the 5th on a big part of the equation. Why?
Trust that ANY HR team that asks NOT just about your base comp, but also wants to be sure they’re taking all relevant factors in mind (how much PTO do you have, what do your health benefits cost you OOP, etc) is MUCH more likely to bring you an offer that you’d be good with.
Yeah, sorry OP but you shut down salary discussions just as they were leaving the gate…”I’m not going to tell you that, so now WHAT?!“. Dude/Dudette was probably just baffled by your response and your decision to withhold pertinent offer info, and became frustrated that you were failing such a basic business acumen “math problem“. In their minds they were calling you an idiot. Not being rude, just stating the facts.
Why not BS an inflated figure at them, some 5% below your salary expectation? You don’t need to show them your employment contract…
Depending on where you live, it’s illegal to ask what your current salary/package is.
My current pay is within the ranges of the desired pay that I gave you.
Asking people their current compensation is illegal in some places and yet even in those places recruiters still do it.
I would just answer their « it’s unacceptable » sentence with « no, what’s unacceptable is your hostile reaction when I answer that my current pay is none of your fucking business. You have no fucking reason, nor need to know my current compensation. So get off your fucking high horse and learn to be respectful of candidates if you want to be respected. Now give me the email of the department head so I can tell them the reason I’m removing my candidatures is your lack of professionalism, you fuck ».
“my current compensation is not relevant. we are discussing my salary requirements to work for you. what I make right now has no bearing on that.”
“My current salary is within the range I have stated on my application. I will not take less than [Bottom Number].”