It was always easy to collude. Any company of a significant size (100+ employees) is hiring consultants to determine market rates for employees. Here's the one mine uses [1] Making that data public only helps employees because. 1. Current employees can look at listings and realize if they are underpaid or overpaid. 2. New employees can skip past low wage employers (forcing them to raise their wages if they want... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

It's probably illegal for companies to directly coordinate to keep salaries low. However, it's not illegal for them to work with a third party to get market data on what is the going rate for salaries. Here's the one my employer uses: https://radford.aon.com/products/surveys/technology-compensation-survey. Source: about 2 years ago

I wanted to know if other have had this experience or understand why this is the case. I was interviewing for a role with a tech giant out of SF. During our initial conversation I was told the starting salary for the role was between 90 - 95k CAD. After going through multiple interviews and earning the position I was provided an offer of 72K CAD. I enquired about the rather large discrepancy and was told by HR... Source: about 2 years ago

Here's the company that does it: https://radford.aon.com/products/surveys/technology-compensation-survey. Source: over 2 years ago

To add to this thread -> https://layoffs.fyi/. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

Layoffs.fyi → A more international approach, but similar to Teamlyzer. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

In the current job market where an average software engineer stays just 2 years at a single company, where remote work and freelancing lead to engineers having 2 or 3 full-time positions at the same time, and companies are firing thousands of software engineers with little to no notice, it’s easy to enter the me against the world mentality. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

The market is in the toilet right now: https://layoffs.fyi/ (not my site fyi). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Some numbers for context/sense of foreboding: https://layoffs.fyi/ 159 tech companies w/ layoffs ∙ 41793 employees laid off in 2024 (as of 8:26 AM PST February 20, 2024). I have been applying on and off for quite some time with no success (I would stop because I would just get discouraged after a while). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago