I am writing this interview process just to warn other people. First, a recruiter from Agoda contacted me a while ago. I asked her about the salary, no response. She's just saying that depends on the hiring manager, and I need to discuss that with the hiring manager (HM). I told her I'd like to talk to HM and she gives various excuses not to arrange a meeting/interview. Later on, I was contacted by a 3rd party recruiter. I asked about the salary range, and she asked me my expected salary; I told her what I'm expecting. She said that's OK and within their budget. This is very important, this salary was 6 figure salary per month in USD. The reason why I asked is, because I have seen positions advertised around this much by other 3rd party recruiters hiring for Agoda. Anyway, she submitted my resume, and Agoda approved for interviews. At that time recruiter also asked me to submit my salary requirement in an email. So I thought they accepted my salary requirement by proceeding further. I had a phone interview scheduled with engineers. I passed those interviews. Then I had another interview scheduled with the hiring manager. This is where things get interested. The hiring manager asked my salary expectation during this interview. I told him that my salary expectation range (just like I told to the 3rd party recruiter). He said I'm asking above their range. I asked what the range is and he told me 100-170k THB per month. He said he will talk to HR and if they can do an exception for me. I agreed on that. Then I got the response saying HR refused exception so they'll be sticking with 100-170k THB range. I can understand that this range is EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD for Bangkok market; but there are alternative locations where cost of living is similar/cheaper than Bangkok, yet you can still earn this salary or greater. So therefore I strongly recommend everyone, to schedule their first interview with the hiring manager to sort out the expected salary before anything else. I also did discuss this with the 3rd party recruiter, as to why they said OK in the first with my expected salary range. The answer was, it was the 3rd party recruiter's misunderstanding with the salary range (I don't know how is that even possible). But there you go. So if you do have any recruiter advertising for more than 170k THB; do make sure you ask them if they've got anyone that they know they helped them to hire at that rate. If not just walk away (or accept that the salary range will be 100-170k THB) I also give thumbs up for the overall interview just purely that all the interviewers (engineers and hiring managers) were really nice people.