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> Imagine haggling over the range start or range size, and then picking your salary from a uniform distribution contained by that range.

I think that it’s important that the last step is not random. I can’t imagine the job applicant would be happy with their salary being chosen randomly.

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From my perspective, that’s pretty much how it works anyway. At the end of the day you’re sampling from a distribution. You can improve the outcome by networking, interview prep, and negotiation strategy but all of those are just changing the shape of the distribution. I would reject the idea of intentionally adding more randomness because the signal is already so obscured.

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