Totally agree and the feature is coming! For the MVP we focused on bare essentials and look: no mater how great a job is, you won't take it if it doesn't pay the rent.
Bonuses, equity and other package elements are coming.
Your point in your other comment about overwhelmed with InMail totally resonates with me. Many low-quality offers out there, offering below-market wages. The signal-to-noise ratio is low, and it's an unfortunate part of the job seeking process.
I've tried a platform similar to this. Indeed has a product called Seen. I'm going to share my experience with Seen to provide insight.
Seen emails me saying employers want to talk, and included salary range in the e-mail body. Unbeknownst to me, the salary range was based on what I self-reported (many months prior), but based on the job title, it seemed too go to be true. Support had confirmed that the employer never saw my information, even though they sent me an e-mail saying the opposite.
Given the types of companies it tells me about, it's clear the product targets mid-market talent and not the top quintile. Which probably makes sense, since there are less people there. But it ended up having the same problem as InMail: an undesired signal-to-noise ratio. Sample size of 1, take my experience with a grain of salt.
Well, I have many more examples similar to yours... Our CTO actually interviewed with Facebook over 8 rounds (!) only to find out at the end that they won't offer him the salary he was expecting and asking since the very beginning. But they dragged him along because for HR it's just a normal work day, but for him it was a gigantic waste of time.
That's a common negotiation strategy. They just drag it along and hope you're tired enough to accept whatever you get. Most companies don't do this (because their time is worth something too), but FAANG gets so many applicants they wouldn't really care.
I'm glad there are sites like this to make it salaries more transparent.
Just launched this, thanks for checking out and comment! We are also launching on Product Hunt today where we have some additional info, check it out also!
We decided to build Wanted after being overwhelmed by InMails from recruiters on LinkedIn... It's impossible to cut through the noise.
On the other hand, we had a real hard time finding the best talent whenever launching a startup and working with those headhunters is crazy expensive.
So we created Wanted to solve both sides of this issue.
(1) Talents have to specify what salary they want, drop their resume / linkedin and that's it (equity, other package elements are coming).
(2) Companies commit to a salary for a posted position
The additional benefit of a set salary before the interviews is that employers won't be able to discriminate and offer less when negotiating because of gender, religion, ethnicity, or any other personal preference or attribute.
I think that has more to do with how publicly one has to use/consume the product. E.g. most people don't like to tell their friends that they have a sexual toy at home, or that they like to binge eat, or watch porn or do something else that is considered shameful once exposed publicly.
However as long as it's not a social product (e.g. porn sites or the axe deo), it's fine, since they do it privately. The problem with online dating is that it exposes one's intentions more publicly.. The embarrassment factor is somewhat declining though - according to Pew Internet's online dating survey it was 21% in the US in 2013 vs. 29% in 2005.
However one has to keep in mind that what Pew measured is agreement with statements such as "Do you agree that online dating is a good way to meet someone". So you might say yes since you have a friend who did it, but you may still not register yourself. The latter has some strong support if you look at how many people use online dating, which is only 11% of the population and something like 40% of singles if I remember correctly. These numbers contradict to the notion that it's ok for the majority to date online, but the tendencies seem to go in that direction [source: http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/10/21/online-dating-relation...]
Very true sir in a small fraction of cases, see http://www.umsl.edu/~renners/Ming_etal_Sex_chromosomes_2011....
(well, if you wanted to be precise, you could have said "there are more sex determination systems in the world than just XX/XY", since these letters only make sense when it comes to comparing different systems, sex loci relate to one chromosome within the same species)
There is actually a project to do something similar using conventional breeding. E. woodsii hybridizes with E. natalensis. If you back-cross hybrid offspring with E. woodsii again and again, with each generation you will have plants that are genetically closer and closer to the E. woodsii parent while still having female plants.
Great idea! There is a ton of social science about why it is irrational to vote (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance). If one had to pay even a low penalty similar to Australia that may help to convince rational but disappointed, ignorant and hopefully peaceful people to vote..
