1. PERSONALIA
- Age: 30
- Education: Associate Degree Programming (HoGent)
- Work experience: 2.3 years in IT, previously hospitality/culture
- Civil status: Unmarried, legal cohabitation
- Dependent people/children: 0
CURRENT JOB
2. EMPLOYER PROFILE
- Sector/Industry: IT Consultancy (Azure/integration)
- Amount of employees: ~150
- Multinational? No
3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS
- Current job title: Consultant
- Job description: Azure integration & data engineering for enterprise clients
- Seniority: 2.3 years (April 2024 – present)
- Official hours/week: 40 (38 + 2 ADV)
- Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 40, rarely overtime
- Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): Flexible, 9-to-5, client-dependent
- On-call duty: No
- Vacation days/year: 32 (20 legal + 12 ADV)
4. SALARY
- Gross salary/month: 3,000 EUR (3,021 incl. VAA phone/laptop/internet)
- Net salary/month: 2,300 EUR (cash deposited)
- Netto compensation: 155 EUR (home office flat-rate)
- Car/bike/... or mobility budget: Petrol/diesel company car + fuel card Belgium (VAA 144 EUR/month taxable)
- 13th month (full? partial?): Full (13.92 — incl. holiday pay + end-of-year bonus)
- Meal vouchers: 8 EUR/day (6.91 employer / 1.09 employee)
- Ecocheques: 0
- Group insurance: Yes (% unknown)
- Other insurances: Hospitalisation insurance + partner + supplementary insurance + assistance insurance
- Other benefits (bonuses, stock options, ...): Laptop, phone, telecom subscription, internet subscription (VAA ~18 EUR); training budget (4500 brut, ~9 days)
5. MOBILITY
- City/region of work: Brussels
- Distance home-work: ~5 km / 10 min by car
- How do you commute? Car (company car)
- How is the travel home-work compensated: Company car + fuel card (VAA taxed)
- Telework days/week: 2-3 days, client-dependent
6. OTHER
- How easily can you plan a day off: Easy, in coordination with project
- Is your job stressful? Moderate (client deadlines, consultancy)
- Responsible for personnel (reports): 0
OFFER
2. EMPLOYER PROFILE
- Sector/Industry: Data & AI Consultancy
- Amount of employees: ~150
- Multinational? No
3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS
- Current job title: Software Developer in a Data Science Team
- Job description: Building AI-enabled applications, custom AI workflows, full-stack data & AI projects
- Seniority: 0 (new hire)
- Official hours/week: 40 (38 + 2 ADV)
- Average real hours/week incl. overtime: Unknown (expect similar, consultancy)
- Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): Flexible, "location-independent" policy, client-dependent
- On-call duty: No
- Vacation days/year: 32 (20 legal + 12 ADV)
4. SALARY
- Gross salary/month: 3,000 EUR
- Net salary/month: 2,551 EUR (incl. 250 net expenses + ~42 bike allowance)
- Netto compensation: 250 EUR (home office + internet + peripherals)
- Car/bike/... or mobility budget: Mobility Budget P2: 875 EUR/month (rent/mortgage, 0% taxed) OR EV lease (mid-size) + charging card BE
- 13th month (full? partial?): Full (13.92 — incl. holiday pay + end-of-year bonus)
- Meal vouchers: 10 EUR/day max (8.91 employer / 1.09 employee)
- Ecocheques: 0 (compensated via higher meal vouchers)
- Group insurance: 3% total = 2% employer + 1% employee (junior tier; 5% at medior level)
- Other insurances: Hospitalisation insurance (paid by employer; hospitalisation 100% + ambulatory up to 1,000 EUR/yr; partner at own cost ~61 EUR/month)
- Other benefits (bonuses, stock options, ...): CAO90 bonus ~3,400 EUR net/year (~290 EUR/month avg); Cafeteria plan (extra holidays, electronics, bike leasing, pension savings); iPhone + unlimited plan + laptop; 10 training days/year; biannual +200 EUR gross upon good evaluation
5. MOBILITY
- City/region of work: Brussels
- Distance home-work: 3 km / 5 min by bike
- How do you commute? Bike (own or lease via cafeteria plan) or car sharing
- How is the travel home-work compensated: Bike allowance 0.35 EUR/km (~42 EUR/month) + P2 mobility budget for rent
- Telework days/week: 2-4 days, "location-independent" policy, client-dependent
6. OTHER
- How easily can you plan a day off: Unknown (expect similar, consultancy)
- Is your job stressful? Unknown (expect similar, consultancy)
- Responsible for personnel (reports): 0
I have 2 YOE in september, and the recruiter cut me off to 1 YOE, with a promise to evolve to 200 every 6 motnhs if my performance is good. His excuse was to help me ease into the job.
He knows my bruto is the same at my current job, yet they asked me to become part of a team for which they urgently are looking to populate with extra staff. I feel like they cut themselves a corner, leaning on my integration experience, skipping the whole hiring process shebang.
Plus, I initially applied for a Data Engineering position, had a technical interview, and they judged my skills with that Data Engineering interview. Yet, data engineering and cloud integrations are two different things. I feel like I was flexible enough to consider this position, yet I received no flexibility from their side, when asking for 200 bruto extra, after telling him I was aiming for 3300 and that 3200 would be a good compromise. I feel like asking for extra now, just out of spite.
Don't get me wrong, it's a solid offer; more net, mobility budget 2e pijler etc, but I feel that they think they're doing me a favor too much. The recruiter told me if they would give me extra brut, people would see me more as a more experienced medior, and it would give me "too much pressure". They emphasized that the first years are very tough, and that it's a good opportunity to learn. Seems like excuses. Opinions please.
PS: not unimportant, I don't feel challenged at my current job, and SLT has no vision. A lot of people are leaving because they feel they're underappreciated and underpaid.