For me, the lack of salary range equals the following:
1. There's nothing to brag about. If you pay well and you seek talent in a market where most of the time it's the workers that are in position of power you want the people to know that you're paying well. FAANG wouldn't be half as famous if the pay was mediocre.
2. There's lots of people being chronically underpaid and revealing salary ranges would cause them to revolt. Even if I'd get hired and receive a competitive wage it still highlights an issue with keeping the wage up to the market standards, which makes the job a temporary gig at best and I'd have to start applying to other companies soon enough, so why bother in the first place?
3. The company doesn't actually want an employee and is just probing the market.
4. The company doesn't have an actual number in mind (or actual hiring budget) and their offer is not going to be serious.
5. Whoever is in charge believes in some fairy tales about pay not being important or people working for passion and assumes I am equally as dumb and naive.
All in all I most likely won't consider the company if the information about pay is absent. There's nothing to gain by wasting time with the whole process only to find out the pay is mediocre and I really don't expect to be surprised by an above-average offer.
1. There's nothing to brag about. If you pay well and you seek talent in a market where most of the time it's the workers that are in position of power you want the people to know that you're paying well. FAANG wouldn't be half as famous if the pay was mediocre.
2. There's lots of people being chronically underpaid and revealing salary ranges would cause them to revolt. Even if I'd get hired and receive a competitive wage it still highlights an issue with keeping the wage up to the market standards, which makes the job a temporary gig at best and I'd have to start applying to other companies soon enough, so why bother in the first place?
3. The company doesn't actually want an employee and is just probing the market.
4. The company doesn't have an actual number in mind (or actual hiring budget) and their offer is not going to be serious.
5. Whoever is in charge believes in some fairy tales about pay not being important or people working for passion and assumes I am equally as dumb and naive.
All in all I most likely won't consider the company if the information about pay is absent. There's nothing to gain by wasting time with the whole process only to find out the pay is mediocre and I really don't expect to be surprised by an above-average offer.