- 2024
- Jul
- 29
A recruiter once told me that a company was a poor choice. They were right.
A recruiter once told me that a company (that I had asked about) was generally known in the local industry for wanting to pay substantially under market - trying to be as cagey about it as they could. His comments about the place were substantially more colorful, but that was the gist of the statements, along with a “probably not going to be worth your time.”
The person telling me this had no connection to the company, so I put the info in my files, and thought that maybe they just had a bad experience with the place.
No, they were correct - I had a few offers to interview with this place over the years, and the pay for skills desired was very poor - probably about 1/2 to 2/3 of what others were paying. I turned down the few contacts I had with a “Thank you, but there’s nothing about your offer that makes me want to pick up and move across the state.
The last contact I had with this company, the person contacting me became somewhat (not really) angry that I refused to even consider the position. To be fair, I did have an online profile that stated a range of pay I was interested in, but this also was posted with the caveat of being for local positions only. Any movement would require reassessment of those rates. When I pointed this out, the person passive-aggressive told me “Oh, ok.” That was the last time I heard from them. I’ve since taken a look at reviews on job sites, and those suggest that things have not changed - or even increased a whole lot, if at all. There’s a lot of talk on these reviews about the complete lack of awareness and organization within the company.
I appreciate that information to this day. When I’m told there’s something not right about what I’m looking at, I make a point to at least investigate the complaint on my own. Even if the complaint seems to be unfounded, I still keep that in my back pocket.