Hi,
I’m a scientist working at a large size biotech startup (5 years of industry experience post PhD). I have been working for 2 years here. I have been underpaid (new people at the same position make 15k more than me) and I have been asking for a raise for 1 year and nothing. I haven’t get inflation raise or bonus in 2 years, nothing. My performance reviews have been very good but no raises. I’m always told next year or until budget gets approved or after x reason.
So I looked for a job and got an offer at a Fortune 500 biotech company. I got an offer 10k more than my current salary + signing bonus. I still need to negotiate and I’m confident I can get a little higher
So I told my boss I had an offer. He counter offered within hours at higher title than Fortune 500 company and also 35k more than my current salary (no bonus, 25k more than new offer). I’m upset because all these time my current company could have give me more salary and they didn’t. They just ignored all my requests.
I don’t think the Fortune 500 company will be able to match that salary. I’ll try on Monday but they’ll probably meet me in the middle or offer more signing bonus. So what should I do?
There are more career development and training opportunities at Fortune 500 company, bigger team, potentially more stability. Should I take the offer even if it is lower salary than the counteroffer? I feel bad leaving my team since I’m the more experienced person at my team. At my team there has also been a lot of turnover and 5 people have left in 2 years (3 in the last 3 months).
Submitted November 25, 2021 at 12:13AM by FaithlessnessSuch632 https://ift.tt/3xjOfd8
