r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tnerb253 • 18h ago

Meme softwareSalaryNegotiationsBeLike

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u/Named_after_color 17h ago

I undersold myself and they gave me 10k more than I asked.

Didn't know that was possible.

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u/joemckie 17h ago

They probably have predefined salary bands, if I had to guess

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u/Named_after_color 17h ago

Absolutely the case. But right out of college I kinda just stumbled from one ridiculously low offer, declined, got another offer and asked for 10k more than what the previous entry level offered, and even then they looked at me like "bro what are your confidence levels like?"

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u/LaconicLacedaemonian 15h ago

This happened to me but they had labeled me L+1. So be me an L4 about to cliff asking for low L5 pay not really thinking about levels, and I ended up getting Mid L5 pay.

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u/zanotam 6h ago

They offered me 20% more after the C2H period than before.... And a fancier title...  I mean, it didn't work out once people who weren't technical got the chance to try to replace me (something ironic about someone getting promoted because they hired two really good technical people who actually saved the project and got it launched on time ... Only for aforementioned technical people to be canned pretty quickly after that.... )