4 ms·
You most definitely could have. The important thing here is the competing offers. Without those, no compensation negotiator in the world could’ve done anything.
by isatty 3y ago
You most definitely could have. The important thing here is the competing offers. Without those, no compensation negotiator in the world could’ve done anything. Anyway, the other person is happy so whatever.
- bubblethink 3y agoYeah, consultant at this stage seems a bit unnecessary. But it's also a business with high success rate and customer satisfaction. Kind of like placebo. Pretty good deal from the consultant's pov.
- yazaddaruvala 3y agoI also used levels.fyi they most certainly helped. The consultant previously worked at both Amazon and Facebook. I was working at Amazon at the time, and got competing offers from Facebook and Google. Even with the competing offers I’m very happy I spent $3k for the consultant. Lots of good drafts of emails ( I did still need to carry the email ), but lots of great advice about strategy, and about what buzzwords to say and to avoid, which company to talk to first and what number to ask for that would be very easy for them to hit. We ended up pushing FBs offer up to the limit before triggering an escalation then sent that to Google to beat. I would NOT have done as well without them. They even told me “FB is gonna try and pressure you with a time limited offer. The time limit is not real. Don’t feel the pressure.” Stupid info like this was itself worth the money.
- jnwatson 3y agoMy experience was quite similar.
- minitoar 3y agoI find it very difficult to get competing offers in such a way that they care to outbid each other. Usually it’s just a nominally similar but differently structured offer.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoActually I had no competing offers :P I did have a job at the time, though.