Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equity Benchmarks

Re:Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equi... by smm2000 on Friday October 03, 2014 @07:34PM (#8408189)

You were low-balled or have particularly shitty resume. 110k is offer for new grads. The right approach to maximizing offer is to get 5-6 offers, do bidding war between companies you do not want to work for and then ask the company you want to work for to match the highest offer.

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Re:Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equi... by steven777400 on Friday October 03, 2014 @08:20PM (#8408324)

They came out and told me they didn't think I had the skill level for the senior position I had applied to, but, they had a junior-level position open at that salary. It's more than I make now, but, I turned it down because it wasn't more enough to count for extra hours they expected, the higher cost of living (or commute), and the possibility of getting eaten by the performance evaluation system (at that time, was still the stack ranking and all the horrors it entailed).

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Re:Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equi... by tptacek on Friday October 03, 2014 @08:11PM (#8408287)

Microsoft semi-(in)famously had a strategy of paying 70% of market salary.

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Re:Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equi... by daniellorenc on Friday October 03, 2014 @09:44PM (#8408511)

When I was at Microsoft ~3 years ago, the strategy was to pay at the 70th percentile of market salaries, not pay 70% of the current market salary.

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Re:Analyzing AngelList Job Postings, Part 2: Salary and Equi... by tptacek on Friday October 03, 2014 @10:30PM (#8408592)

Sorry, you're right, 70th percentile. My point though is just that he may not have been lowballed deliberately.

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