I love their salary negotiation method.
They have a top end in mind and will give the person the job if they agree on anything up to the amount.
They leave room for negotiation as some people need to feel like they negotiated well.
If you don’t negotiate your pay up to 100% the preset amount, after you accept the job they just tell you they are paying you more (the 100%).
Both people are happy in this set up.
Some candidates would reject the offer if they weren’t given the experience of negotiating more for themselves.
This strategy emerged over hundreds or thousands of hires as the founders came from bigger companies before this one.
It’s perhaps not rational, but humans aren’t always rational. So building that irrationality into your strategy is a rational thing to do ;)
It’s unclear if employees / candidates know this at all, which is why I didn’t name the company.
The incentive is to create an actual loving and supportive culture which they believe pays off. They also feel like it’s the right thing to do given their values.
They are one of the top rated corporate cultures in the world and recently valued at around $2B 10 years in.