Ask HN: Software engineers who have been promoted with a large salary increase?

Post by randomopining » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 12:59 AM UTC

potta_coffee wrote: post #37

giantg2 wrote: post #17

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I was 25 at that time. The tech was obscure, so I didn't have the option to move. If moving was an option, then I would have taken it. Instead I'm in my 30s, burnt out, doing the minimum (sort of), and still a midlevel.

I was almost 30 when I started in tech. I'm not in your commonly discussed SV tech scene, I live in flyover country and work remotely for a giant non-tech company. But I got to a point where I was absolutely desperate for any decently paying work. After doing graphic design for a few years (I studied art), I realized that was never going to pay. I did carpentry, construction, labor, painting, literal ditch digging, s…

Post by methusala8 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 1:18 AM UTC

d23 wrote: post #29

~10% is more what I've seen. The biggest gain came from actually putting effort into getting lots of offers and negotiating well. This lead to an offer that was 2.75x my pay at the time. I ended up taking one that was lower (a mere 2.25x), but after stock growth, refreshers, and a base pay increase (without a promotion) that has gone up to 4x. A 3% increase for an actual promotion is insulting. You're probably gettin…

Post by giantg2 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 1:37 AM UTC

randomopining wrote: post #41

potta_coffee wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was almost 30 when I started in tech. I'm not in your commonly discussed SV tech scene, I live in flyover country and work remotely for a giant non-tech company. But I got to a point where I was absolutely desperate for any decently paying work. After doing graphic design for a few years (I studied art), I realized that was never going to pay. I did carpentry, construction, labor, painting, literal ditch digging, s…

How much doe. Over 150k? Over 230k?

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

johngalt wrote: post #23

It's not anything nefarious, just the natural blind spots of human reasoning. Titles are cheap. Your existing employer will always want to hand you more work, but not more money. If you are handling the work well, then the pain of not having that role filled is only a memory. Your future employer has an acute problem to solve and is already primed to spend money to solve it. The net result is that (current employer)…

Post by potta_coffee » Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 4:41 AM UTC

randomopining wrote: post #41

potta_coffee wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was almost 30 when I started in tech. I'm not in your commonly discussed SV tech scene, I live in flyover country and work remotely for a giant non-tech company. But I got to a point where I was absolutely desperate for any decently paying work. After doing graphic design for a few years (I studied art), I realized that was never going to pay. I did carpentry, construction, labor, painting, literal ditch digging, s…

How much doe. Over 150k? Over 230k?