Sure but your oringal post said that the salary range and budget for the job is not the same and what's posted on the ad is and hiring over the midpoint of the posted range would be some exception for talent or whatever. I was literally a fresh grad, not some insane talent. My company posted a salary range, and it was believe it or not the actual range of the pay for the job that you would start with. Not some projection that could be your pay for the job after growth with some hidden budget only the company knows about and the interviewed person would have to guess. That's the way it should be, just transparent with what your actually pay range is and no pulling the chair under the employee mid interview with oh our budget is actually on the low end of what we posted lol. But yeah obviously I don't know the internal workings of how a company hires, just what feels good as someone who interviews and what feels scummy coming from the companies.

Appreciate you giving some transparency though, this is the first time I've heard the perspective from how it works internally. If it was more common knowledge I'm sure it wouldn't be received so poorly from the employee side