How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation

Post by well_negotiator » Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 9:05 AM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #102

well_negotiator wrote: post #37

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Really sad to know he didn't get a good offer in Airbnb and you both think it's a good offer. But this looks totally like a new grad offer. I have my friends who just got offers in Airbnb who are getting paid 180k in salary and ~600K in stocks which is basically $330k/year. My other friend who is senior engineer with 5 year experience is compensated around 500k/year. I have similar experience and i recently did a job…

Since when does 5 years of experience warrant "senior" and half a million dollars in comp? This whole thing is a joke.

It's a not a joke. You work in consultancy which is a service company where margins are not high as goog/fb/msft.

I work in product company with high profits in billions. It's common for new grad engineers who join as L3 and become L5 in 3-5 years in all the above companies.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 5:24 PM UTC

tamana wrote: post #13

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #11

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Yeah, this is just sad. I know people personally that worked their asses off learning systems programming, algorithms, and advanced mathematics at top-tier four-year colleges with absolutely fantastic technical CVs that got offers that aren't even half of that. These are surely some of the smartest people in the world, too, but I suppose they don't play the "bluffing" game all too well (er, "negotation" -- call it wh…

You don't understand how supply and demand works, or that job offers are for how smart you are and what you can do, not how hard you worked in school. In fact, people who work harder to learn something are usually less talented than people who learned it quickly. The computer details aren't the hard part of software jobs.

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