‘What salary do you expect us to take home?’ This probably the hardest question you get in an interview and which I hope you don’t get in the vent that you have not done enough research. It is not probably asked for those joining a company at entry level because I know at this stage each company believes they offer the best. For management trainees, most employers believe they are the best paying because they try as much as possible to match their entry salary to the market or offer slightly above it. This is in line with a lot of companies’ policy of making sure that they get the crème de la crème of the graduates. This throws them into a competition which the audit firms end up winning anyway even beating competitions like, Unilever, EABL, Bamburi for engineers and other technical specialized talents.
