It was a reasonable email asking a reasonable question - and companies need to be called out on this sort of bullshit or it's not going to change. I hate renegotiating my own work conditions/package, but it's the conversation with the single greatest impact on my quality of life.
Neither companies nor candidates should be afraid of discussing salary. It can be awkward, but it's also really really important. As an employee, you trade your time and skillset for remuneration. It shows an incredibly exploitative attitude towards employees to respond in this way to what is effectively a simple question.
"Culture fit" has little, if anything to do with money. More likely, they cancelled her interview because they knew that if they wrote down their intended pay/conditions she'd cancel first. If a company's scared to talk $$ with you, it's the biggest red flag there is. Only sketchy companies like multilevel marketing (and apparently SkipTheDishes) try to pull these sorts of shenanigans.
This is just another random company that has their heads stuck up their arse about culture. Not a single one of your employees cares about company culture, they are the to get paid not to absorb company culture.
Good thing she asked! If that happens, they were probably going to give you an insultingly low offer after you had invested a bunch of time in their interview process.
This is pretty typical of Western Canada. I'm not shocked at all. You're talking about an area of Canada that is all about oil, gas, and mining--natural resources. The tech industry is non-existent out here with the exception of Vancouver. I also heard that this particular company is notorious for letting you go if you don't catch on quickly. If I were her, I'd run far away from this joke of a tech company.
"I think trying to shame and boycott them for this doesn't show strength of character."
It's very sad when workers sharing information about companies is considered poor character. Should we be completely divided, blind and deaf to corporate behaviour, except for what we directly experience?
I thought she was right and probably right to share the information, but I did think that her advocacy of a boycott rubbed me the wrong way. I'm not interested in getting the pitchforks and making it a moral issue, I just want people to mention stuff like that so companies doing it get a bad reputation as employers.
I could do so, but unfortunately I can no longer read your comment. If you're seriously interested in figuring out what's faulty in your approach, let me know and we can try to reconstruct this discussion.
Neither companies nor candidates should be afraid of discussing salary. It can be awkward, but it's also really really important. As an employee, you trade your time and skillset for remuneration. It shows an incredibly exploitative attitude towards employees to respond in this way to what is effectively a simple question.
"Culture fit" has little, if anything to do with money. More likely, they cancelled her interview because they knew that if they wrote down their intended pay/conditions she'd cancel first. If a company's scared to talk $$ with you, it's the biggest red flag there is. Only sketchy companies like multilevel marketing (and apparently SkipTheDishes) try to pull these sorts of shenanigans.