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I got a 45% raise by being offered a new job and my employer matched it. The market is hot, look around you.
by hpen 5y ago
I got a 45% raise by being offered a new job and my employer matched it. The market is hot, look around you.
- kevindeasis 5y agoThis Some companies wont even ask you interview questions and will give you an offer right away.
- giantg2 5y agoWow, that's crazy. The interviews I've had still involve questions and code screens.
- hpen 5y agoHaha the easiest I had was one 30 minutes interview. No coding. Just simple questions.
- abeppu 5y agoBut do you want to land on that team? What are the conditions that lead a team to not even ask questions of candidates, and what do those conditions imply about their trajectory?
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- giantg2 5y agoI lack the background. I'm not seeing anything that is better that I'm qualified for.
- hpen 5y agoCongrats you must be at the top of your bracket for your skills level then. Only way I see it is to work on your skills.
- giantg2 5y agoI wish. I'm in the bottom quarter of the grade range for an intermediate dev at my company. There aren't any opportunities for my skills.
- hpen 5y agoAre you located outside the US? The job market might be local to the US.
- cableshaft 5y agoI thought that myself but I was wrong (or at least it didn't matter as much as I thought it did). I was heavy on telecom/phone app development, there's not much out there. But I had enough web and system dev that I got a bunch of recruiters contacting me about those opportunities.
- giantg2 5y agoYeah, I interviewed for a phone system app internally. I turned it down because of lack of options afterwards.
- gknoy 5y agoOut of curiosity, what do you consider your skills? What languages or frameworks you have experience with? Keep in mind that often your skill with a particular language is not what they're looking for - many of us have changed jobs to a place that used a language that was new to us.
- andrew_ 5y agoFake it 'till you make it! Anecdotal, but every successful dev in my immediate circle did that at one point in their career to get over a hump or past a plateau.
- giantg2 5y agoI could apply to a tech lead position that's open... HR would likely throw a fit.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoI got a new certification and a raise, that while I was thankful for, wasn't quite what I was expecting. I interviewed somewhere else, and my company matched the offer. All total, 40% raise this year.