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.
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.