The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise

Re:The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise by twistedpair on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:11AM (#9811562)

But then the code monkeys have won.

I worked for a major institution's engineering group where we formally asked "We're getting recruited all the time for more, will you raise comp to market to prevent people leaving?" Answer, "No." Annual attrition was 25%. At a recruiting/replacement cost of ~$40K, raises would have made more sense, but then managers would have failed to wield their power to "constrain their budget."

Logic need not apply.

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Re:The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise by collyw on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:54AM (#9811784)

It reminds me of an essay that Joel wrote.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000024.html

Basically he points out that heavy use of methodology will get you guaranteed results. But that result is of very mediocre quality.

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