In June, I hopped on a call with the head of operations to talk about compensation. I might have asked a little too much, but I left room to negotiate.
The research shows that large language models consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men, despite identical qualifications. For instance, a difference in advice led to a gap of $120K a year between genders in some fields.
They asked me to do season two, and they offered me half the money. I'm like, 'Well, it's going to take me twice the amount of work for half the amount of money'.
Landing a job in today's economy requires resilience, as many job seekers apply to hundreds of positions without success, with unemployment rates and economic uncertainty complicating job security.
"There's this unspoken exchange rate between flexibility and comp, and for some candidates, it's worth a significant trade-off," said Theresa L. Fesinstine, highlighting how many are willing to accept lower pay for remote work options.