Details.... I work in IT as a business analyst in a larger company 5,000+ in IT alone, and 30,000+ employees nationwide, even more if you count contractors and all our non exclusive sales associates.
I graduated in May, started as in intern in June, started full-timing at my salary $X in August. Our annual review is coming up in February so I started feeling around about how it’s handled and expectations. The coworker I talk to about these more sensitive topics has a different manager in a different department. She told me that “no one negotiates here. You have to take what they give you.” I find that very hard to believe, but is it the usual for a large company like this to completely base your salary off of “performance scores” and some internal calculation?
This bothers me because: 1. If this is just culture and not the rules then I’m worried for all the other young woman in this company not asking bc their mentors told them not to. Do you think I should ask another coworker her take? I don’t want to get a reputation as salary hungry at a very pro-work life balance company.
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I wasn’t expecting more than a 2-3% increase for cost of living because I am just now at 6 months experience on the job but now I’m second guessing that I’m selling myself short because I’m too conflict averse. I didn’t negotiate my starting salary because it was $4000 higher than the upper bracket I got on some salary estimator online. I’m a good employee with a lot of ideas but I’m still learning the ropes and haven’t implemented any of them (yet) or completed a certificate training I started.
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Newbie question.. if everything I do is brand new to me how can I tell if it constitutes above and beyond behavior that deserves more financial recognition than a 2-3% cost of living salary increase.
tl;dr. Is it ever the case that HUGE corporations simply calculate your raise and will not negotiate? Or am I being kept down by my coworker?
Submitted January 23, 2018 at 09:25AM by WillBeTheIronWill http://ift.tt/2E1Vdba
