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When you save a company $$$, it's important to bring that up at annual review time, and definitely place it on your resume.
by skookumchuck 9y ago
When you save a company $$$, it's important to bring that up at annual review time, and definitely place it on your resume.
- dilyevsky 9y agoAt Google I was explicitly told not to use $ value in my perf review/promo form by multiple managers. There and at other companies i worked for i found that management cares more about revenue (more engagement, new features, releases, etc) than costs (code quality, performance, etc).
- ehnto 9y agoInteresting! I have had the opposite experience at smaller companies. A cynical view might be that in larger companies, the goal setting only materializes as dollar values higher up the chain so that they can benefit from that negotiation leverage. A less cynical view is that business-speak and goal setting naturally abstracts away from money as you try to manage larger goals down a chain of people.
- AznHisoka 9y agoMaybe its just me but everybody seems to follow this advice in resumes these days. It has gotten to the point where I become more skeptical of the candidate because I highly doubt a single person was responsible for $x million in addition revenue (even if it is true) I wonder if the best advice now is simply put your impact in non-monetary terms in your resume.
- skookumchuck 9y agoYou're right to be skeptical of any claims in a resume. I've seen an awful lot of resume padding. Be prepared to back it up in the interview.
- modbait 9y agoUnfortunately, mentioning this politically sensitive issue in such a manner would have been career suicide. (And I suspect that this is not rare for such black swans.)