sshrinivasan

I manage a team of software developers and scientists at a computational biotechnology company, and once in a while we post jobs for either of the two teams. We are in Canada, where salaries typically are lower than the tech hubs of the US. Like most companies, we don't post salary ranges for the positions in the job posting itself, rather wait till we talk with the person face to face. I should mention that our typical interview process is phone first, followed by bringing them in for in-person technical interviews (we also do mock projects and coding assignments, not really relevant here).

Recently we have started mentioning the expected salary range at the phone interview itself, since we had a few cases where we flew people in, only for our salary expectations to be pretty different, hence a waste of time. We of course need to balance between paying top dollar for the best, versus managing the budget.

Here's my question: what does HN think about pushing this salary transparency all the way, and putting it in the job description itself, so neither of us wastes time with false expectations?