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Seems like solid advice. One challenge in asking for a raise at larger companies is it can be difficult to find someone who can actually authorize a raise. A l
by ryanackley 11y ago
Seems like solid advice.
One challenge in asking for a raise at larger companies is it can be difficult to find someone who can actually authorize a raise. A lot of times your manager is a tech lead and his manager has no budgeting responsibility.
- vosper 11y agoThis is an excellent point. Additionally, even if you do find out who can give you a raise, it may be impractical to get due consideration. I've experienced a situation where the CEO of the (large, listed) company personally reviewed all compensation changes and hiring offers. He was so busy (doing CEO stuff, presumably) that he'd often miss meetings with his direct reports (no-one would even know what city he was in) so imagine what it was like trying to get a resolution for an underpaid engineer on your team. After a while of repeating "we're working on it" you start to look either disingenuous, ineffective, powerless - or all of those. Edit: a word
- dpweb 11y agoThat's interesting. I was in a small/mid size co. where the CEO had to approve all raises. I would think it makes more sense to have bands for each position and only hiring or going outside those bands would need approval.
- orborde 11y agoI have little experience with this matter, but it seems like the correct answer here is "get a job at another company that doesn't have broken procedures that render them unable to authorize paying for the people they need."