HR: At company A where we are all about hiring top talent!

Dev: What does this position pay?

HR: Well we’ve done a market assessment of local wages and an happy to announce the VERY competitive offer of (insert 30% less than the median wage here).

Dev: …

HR: I assure you this is a very competitive. What we don’t offer in pay we more than make up for in culture. We are a family here!!

Dev: …

Family. Huh *spits

Annoying herpes infested fuckfest more like.
It's fun to see how fast the family vibe changes to "professionals" as soon as there's a disagreement with the boss.
Aaand when you leave, the rats turn out to be completely useless when it comes to networking.

We're a family, in that management considers itself the parents, and you're the children.

Just a funny though came in my head as soon as you enter the office you get married to the CEO daughter and that's how you become a family there and received less pay.... 😂 Lol.....things in my head.

Hey, at least they tell you. I've no problem with that really - if they're upfront about the fact they think they can make up for a crappy salary with "culture", then it means I can just wish them well and move on.

The real dicks are those that refuse to give a figure so they can take you through the entire process, waste your time, then stiff you at the end - or even worse, give a range, hint that you'd get towards the top end and then give you 20k less saying something like "oh well that's the sort of range you can easily expect to be in once you've worked here a while!"

@ajinxs fun caveat: she's a wife of every employee. 😉