[berkeleyjess]

Hi my name is Jessica and I am the data scientist at Hired who pulled the numbers for this report.

The way the Hired platform works is that companies must submit an initial salary offer when they start the interview process, and so all interview requests have salaries attached to them. Of course these offers can be negotiated later, but for the vast majority of our hires on the platform, the final base salary is equal to or higher than the initial offer given at the interview stage. Therefore we feel confident that this salary data is representative (if not a slight underestimate) on 2015 salaries for software engineers.

[minimaxir]

Hi Jessica, thanks for the clarification.

That's a fair approach, although I agree that it adds a little bit of ambiguity around the process. As noted in other threads, there can be metagaming around the salary process on the employer side, so caution is still necessary.

[fapjacks]

Give me a break. I have been using Hired for almost two years and everybody knows that number is made-up bullshit. It means nothing and everybody knows it!! You're slanting the numbers to make Hired more attractive. I love Hired. The company has totally changed my life for the better, and I could not be happier using it, but this is BS, and anybody that's used the platform knows this number that accompanies interview requests is almost nonsequitur to what actually happens.

[pc86]

Unnecessarily rude and combative. Flagged.