Monday Intel N°3: Who publishes a range.
Of eleven active NXT searches, only the two go-to-market seats publish a compensation range. What publishing a band does for a search.
Every Monday we publish one honest observation from the searches we are running right now. No market claims, no benchmarks we did not earn. Just what the desk actually sees.
What is on the desk
Eleven active searches right now: eight in engineering, two in go-to-market, and one seat to hire the recruiter who would run more of the hiring in-house. The seats span San Francisco, New York City, and several searches open to candidates anywhere who can work with the team.
The pattern
Of those eleven, only the two go-to-market seats publish a compensation range. Every engineering seat describes the work in careful detail and leaves the number out, and the recruiting hire describes its pay in words: a small base, most of the compensation in placements.
- Eleven active searches: eight engineering, two go-to-market, one recruiting hire
- Only the two go-to-market seats publish a numeric range
- None of the engineering seats publish a band publicly
- The seats without a number still state the work, the ownership, and the stage in full
Why it matters
A band is a filter you control. Publish it and the wrong candidates stop applying; hold it and you spend your first calls on a conversation the listing could have had for you. The founders on our desk who publish a number have usually already decided what the seat is worth. The ones who have not are often still deciding, and the search waits for that decision either way.
A range is not just a number. It is proof the seat has been decided.