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We did an a b test on our internal job board and it was a disaster.

Posting salaries is kind of ok for applicants but does nothing for hiring folks.

could you explain what was the disaster ? You had huge uproar from existing employees once they found out that company is willing to pay more to newer employees OR not enough candidates applied for the job posting with salary information ?

Not the person you asked, but we had a flood of low-quality candidates which clogged up our pipeline. Eventually the process was redesigned to have a more aggressive funnel, but candidates don't like that either.

Highly qualified individuals were not applying to jobs that they were perfect for.

If they were not applying because salary ranges were too low for them they would have ended up rejecting your offer in any case. So to me it looks like you saved time and resources on stray leads.

Salary was too “high”. Even though it was in their promotion bands.

It was very very strange.

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