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Does anything need to? Imagine you are looking at two job postings that are identical except for the salary range. One says 30K-300K DOE and the other says 150K-180K DOE. Are you going to trust the first one? I sure wouldn't.

And if you are right and that becomes a problem, well, shit. Back to the drawing board I guess.

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If I wouldn't consider moving for anything less than $250K/yr, I’d consider the first one and not the second one.

I'm not sure I'd trust a company who thought that software engineer value creation only varied by a maximum of 20% either. Tight ranges cut against companies differently than broad ranges.

> I'm not sure I'd trust a company who thought that software engineer value creation only varied by a maximum of 20% either.

But hiring is not evaluating a software engineer in general, rather it's to find a person for a specific role and a specific set of work to be done, a tighter range could mean better estimation.

I don't seriously believe that you want to apply for a job, knowing you set the bar at 250K/yr, when the posting set the bar at 30k/yr.

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