[mb22]

I hear you, and I'm not trying to be cagey here. I'm in the market for a very specific set of skills. The talent/experience/ability for this position varies wildly from "I know of Hive" to "I implemented the Hive CBO, check out my commits". What would I pay for the later? I'm not actually sure what the upper limit would be. I think for the average "engineer/programmer" job there is a pretty well known salary distribution and I know that we are on the upper end of, which is why I put "very good". For a specific specialist job like this putting a salary seems like a mistake, and not putting a salary seems like you are probably cheap. I might pay you north of $200k, but I if everyone that applies assumes they are going to make >$200k, it would be hard to take a less qualified person and adjust their expectations down, even if they would be a great hire for us. It's lose-lose I guess. Thanks for the feedback.

[dbnoch]

What you've offered (range of salary, could be near 200k depending on seniority) provides useful information than 'very good' which is what they were referring too.

thank you for providing your reasoning and feedback.