Re:Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation
by wahsd on Friday December 18, 2015 @12:00PM
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10% salary increases through internal pay increases? That sounds quite unheard of. Maybe if you constantly gun for internal promotions that everyone else is gunning for, but that still leaves everyone else behind that is going to get marginal increases at best.
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Re:Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation
by bigcothrowa on Friday December 18, 2015 @12:35PM
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Yeah, that has not been my experience. I've worked for a big company for 4-ish years. Started 40% below article's suggested "middling" salary because I didn't negotiate (and starting salaries were 30% lower 4 years ago, apparently).
Negotiated a 40%(!) raise after 1.5 years because I was kicking ass and had +40% offers in hand(!) from other BigCo's that I interviewed at.
Since then I've been getting 2-3% cost-of-living raises annually. I would say my performance is above average, but that's my opinion.
Definitely not seeing 10% or $30k annual raises and my total pay is significantly below $250k still. Maybe I need to do another round of external interviewing again.
That being said, I like my work and have good benefits and really good compensation compared to non-tech work.