Most of my jobs have been by referral. So I knew someone in the job before I even applied.
During one in-person interview, I walked through the office with my prospective hire, talked to a number of the current staff, and saw the (miserable) conditions of the office. This was - ostensibly - while they were interviewing me.
I was reluctant to take the job, and spoke to the hiring manager, who offered me an additional $10k on top of the first offer. Then I used their salary negotiation to leverage a wage bump at my own office, because I was able to see what I was worth on the open market.
Isn’t that what a lot of people already do?
I’m not familiar, how do prospective employees talk to previous employees?
Most of my jobs have been by referral. So I knew someone in the job before I even applied.
During one in-person interview, I walked through the office with my prospective hire, talked to a number of the current staff, and saw the (miserable) conditions of the office. This was - ostensibly - while they were interviewing me.
I was reluctant to take the job, and spoke to the hiring manager, who offered me an additional $10k on top of the first offer. Then I used their salary negotiation to leverage a wage bump at my own office, because I was able to see what I was worth on the open market.
I actually met with my predecessor to discuss technical handover of some systems (he volunteered to help)
was this after you got the job though?
yes. different context I guess. I have reached out on LinkedIn to people at orgs I’ve applied to and gotten responses though also
Yes. It’s pretty trivial via linkedin and glass door. Perfectly acceptable behavior.