pet peeve: “what are your salary expectations?” no. tell me how much you’re paying and I will decide whether or not it’s worth my time asking employees to set their own salary is going to disproportionately privilege men
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That's fair, but you need to be fairly certain what's silly. Someone I know decided to ask 60 (thinking it's high, current 45), but tried that line and got "well, we're thinking 80, but could probably do 90 for the right fit".
works is that it's a lot of work to find a good candidate in most non-trivial fields, and once one is found, it's deeply in the employers interest not to scare them away rather than saving a little money - they're anchored on "hire".This is why I advise "stupid high" to most people because their sense is so low. I advise 3x what they think is right. So 45 friend should have said 125 and they'd have apologised and given friend 100. I'm a contractor though so I enjoy teasing unsuspecting interviewers.
