Went through the entire interview process with a company got the offer and it's $4000 less a year than what I stated was my minimum salary.
Why do this? You have wasted both of our time for no reason.
I was approached via email by a head hunter a few weeks ago. I told exactly what my lowest salary was and she didn't say anything about the job paying less than that. Went through 3 interviews with the company in which they told me they couldn't discuss salary till after selection.
Get selected and the offer comes from the original headhunter I spoke to in the beginning. It's $4000 a year less than what I told her and the benefits are worse than my current job. When I asked “Hey can we bump that number up to what I told you in the beginning?”. She sends back “No that is the highest we can go.”
Why do companies do this? Are they hoping that the sunk time fallacy will take over? That I'm just gonna say “Gee Golly let me screw myself because I've already put so much time into this!”.