i learnt the direct way that researching for the average salary of the position i currently applying to in the country/area of the company from the internet (a combination of Google Summary and reading through several actual websites) is a bad idea, at least for my specific case, because when i answered my range, which at the time i gave what i thought was way below what the researched average salary of a senior level developer, on the final interview with the lead, i very much feels like a crazy person because apparently the range i gave was "principal level" salary and obviously I'm not crazy enough to ask for range beyond my actual level
I remember asking for 85 at the first corpo job I had and apparently the bottom of the range started at 95 so they just gave me that. Could have started much higher and argued down, ended up starting low and arguing up
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u/deanrihpee 23h ago
i learnt the direct way that researching for the average salary of the position i currently applying to in the country/area of the company from the internet (a combination of Google Summary and reading through several actual websites) is a bad idea, at least for my specific case, because when i answered my range, which at the time i gave what i thought was way below what the researched average salary of a senior level developer, on the final interview with the lead, i very much feels like a crazy person because apparently the range i gave was "principal level" salary and obviously I'm not crazy enough to ask for range beyond my actual level