I work for a billion dollar company in their IT Security department. I was hired on at 65k a year, even though i had 4 years experience in the industry already and was promised a raise at 6 months. Fast forward a year and still no raise, but im not filling the role of a security engineer and getting paid the same.
With these things in mind i told my boss I thought I deserved a raise and why, he said he understood and would do what he could. 2 months later of me bugging him about it I got a measly 5k bump. I know that may not seem bad, but 70k for a security engineer is a fucking bargain.
So, at this point I was fairly annoyed and it kinda festered over the next six months until I finally applied for 3 jobs. I got offers from all 3 for between 80k, and 85k. I accepted one of them, and put in notice. My boss was bummed, offered me 85k on the spot to stay. I turned him down, and when i came in the next day i was called up to meet with the SVP of my department and he topd me how valuable i was and that he would give me 87k and a promotion if I stayed. Here is lesson one. That was wayyyyy to easy and I should have pushed for more money. I know this because when I accepted the counter offer he said "ok now I dont need to worry about you looking for more jobs right, this is enough thatll youll be satisfied and stay?" Which i realise now is a sign he knew I was good enough to get more money else where.
Fast forward 3 weeks, got contacted by a recruiter on Wednesday of last week, interviewed over the phone Thursday, did a technical interview in person Friday, and got a job offer for 102k 2 hours later.
The big thing I learned here is thay if you are competent and qualified at what you do, and arent being paid what the market supports for that work, you really just have to be willing to network and play the game and there is more money out there, even if you have to switch companies. The market is better than it was post crash, dont let the golden handcuffs keep you trapped an under valued.
Submitted September 21, 2017 at 10:11AM by Netsec0341 http://ift.tt/2ysCLF6
