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Its not the norm outside VC-backed tech land There is just a lot of stuff to build and a salary that needs to increase 30% every other year
by gammateam 8y ago
Its not the norm outside VC-backed tech land
There is just a lot of stuff to build and a salary that needs to increase 30% every other year
- grogenaut 8y agoI see all the comments about needing huge pay bumps every 2-3 years and then I also see things about how you can’t get a job in sv over 40. I wonder if it’s related
- gammateam 8y agoFood for thought but probably not
- mywittyname 8y agoI'm not so sure the 30% pay increase with every job hop is necessarily the norm either. Maybe at first when you're moving up from entry-level to senior. But in some markets, you hit the regional salary cap after four of those and you're stuck with 2-4% annual raises -- even with in-demand skill sets. If I posted the job offers I've received for having experience with Spark/Hadoop, building / productionizing machine learning models (since 2011 even), an AWS certificate, and 15 years worth of other worthwhile skills, people here wouldn't believe me because they are so low. Definitely well below the startng salary of someone at Google. Yet I've had three, all of which were basically identical.