Comment by roryirvine

Interesting - it tracks with personal experience.

Honestly, I'd chalked it up as a one-off mistake by an inexperienced team (I had discussed my expected range in our first conversation, so found it odd that they they would waste their own time going through the hiring process only to make me such a stupidly low offer!)

So is this something that they're actually being advised to do? What's the intention behind it?