Also, transparency is not a technical issue. The people here can easily setup an Airtable spreadsheet where everyone writes the offers they are getting.
There's no such Airtable spreadsheet currently because this is a people issue - we want to know what the companies budget are but want to hold the information to ourselves without sharing that information with anyone else interviewing.
The root cause is us
You mean like Glassdoor?
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/boulder-software-engineer...
No. Glassdoor are posts by (ex)employees and you have to fill out their existing template, which leaves out a lot of perks/benefits/options/RSUs at companies. If you looked at Glassdoor, you would think people at FAANG make no more than $120k/yr because the rest of the perks/benefits/options/RSUs match or often exceed (eg: 2021) the cash component.
I literally meant an Airtable spreadsheet that you and I fill out after speaking to the recruiter from NewCo, even if we dont interview nor ever work there.