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I left for the day (and forever!) and waiting in my inbox is a 5k bump in my NYC offer  maybe the job was cursed
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Shirec posted:I left for the day (and forever!) and waiting in my inbox is a 5k bump in my NYC offer  YAYAYAYYAY
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Shirec posted:I left for the day (and forever!) and waiting in my inbox is a 5k bump in my NYC offer woohoo welcome to the big city
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Shirec posted:I left for the day (and forever!) and waiting in my inbox is a 5k bump in my NYC offer Wooo! So happy for you. 
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Shirec posted:I left for the day (and forever!) and waiting in my inbox is a 5k bump in my NYC offer Any reason WHY they bumped your pay?
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Keetron posted:Any reason WHY they bumped your pay? They didn't say! I signed my offer letter (which is only for the "apprentice" level pay, and if I make it through I get the bump up). Maybe it's an regards to me choosing NYC, and I wouldn't have gotten it if I chose Houston? I know it was a 75k verbal offer, but I don't have any signed paperwork for getting through the program. So now I have in writing that it's 80k, and I may also be getting a relocation bonus. edit: I know I had a background check they had to do, so maaaaybe that went through fine? It's basically a welcome aboard, here's what you should expect to make if you get an offer at the end of your apprenticeship Shirec fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jul 7, 2018 |
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Just bear in mind that in NYC junior developer salaries are higher than that, so don't feel particularly tied to this job and consider hunting after a year. We can discuss this more in the NYC thread and be insufferable over there though. Congratulations!
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Hell yeah welcome to nyc post in the thread and look for a job after a year because you can make a lot more than 80k once you’re established enough to job hunt without caring about relocation
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Shirec posted:I left for the day (and forever!) and waiting in my inbox is a 5k bump in my NYC offer Everything’s coming up Shirec.
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Thank you everyone  Volmarias posted:Just bear in mind that in NYC junior developer salaries are higher than that, so don't feel particularly tied to this job and consider hunting after a year. Phobeste posted:Hell yeah welcome to nyc post in the thread and look for a job after a year because you can make a lot more than 80k once you’re established enough to job hunt without caring about relocation I'm excited! Although, from reading the Oldies thread and the insane interviews Good Will Hrunting is doing, I assume I'll have to get amazingly good as well  I'm still plugging out some Chicago area applications, but I'm debating when to cut that off and just fully focus on NYC (and selling my car, finding a short term sublease in my area, a short term sublease in Boston, and a vet to board my birds at)
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Shirec posted:I'm excited! Although, from reading the Oldies thread and the insane interviews Good Will Hrunting is doing, I assume I'll have to get amazingly good as well More importantly: Network. My career is in a happy place now, but it'd be a lot better if I wasn't completely poo poo at that part.
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Shirec posted:I'm excited! Although, from reading the Oldies thread and the insane interviews Good Will Hrunting is doing, I assume I'll have to get amazingly good as well Don't compare yourself to him, you are in a very different place in your career than he is, and I'm not just talking about Years of Experience. Just face what's in front of you. And congrats again 
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Shirec posted:Although, from reading the Oldies thread and the insane interviews Good Will Hrunting is doing, I assume I'll have to get amazingly good as well [sobs in interviewer]
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I hate SSL certs. What do you mean my certificate is invalid? It's on the right domain. With the right private key. Just let my users connect!
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Man JetBrains is great. My DataGrip evaluation ran out but it still lets me use it for 30 mins per launch, which is just inconvenient enough for me to make sure my manager keeps trying to get licenses without making working completely miserable.
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Writing up my glassdoor review while sipping a glass of champagne  ChickenWing posted:Man JetBrains is great. My DataGrip evaluation ran out but it still lets me use it for 30 mins per launch, which is just inconvenient enough for me to make sure my manager keeps trying to get licenses without making working completely miserable. I need to try some new IDEs. I may be stuck moving to Arkansas for a month (  ) before I move to Boston (unless a late breaking Chicago job happens), so I'll have plenty of time to work on Udemy tutorials
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Shirec posted:Writing up my glassdoor review while sipping a glass of champagne Yesssssss
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Shirec posted:Writing up my glassdoor review while sipping a glass of champagne Super interested in reading, but in understand if you don't want to share it.
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The Fool posted:Super interested in reading, but in understand if you don't want to share it. I would but it is very easily google-able. It is still under edit though so I suppose I could before it actually gets posted and then edit it out of my post...
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Not that I'm advocating for you to post it here, but won't it be obvious to your old boss who wrote the review anyway?
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Shirec posted:Writing up my glassdoor review while sipping a glass of champagne I think that's solidly worthy of a "yass queen" Did you ever get an exit interview?
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ChickenWing posted:I think that's solidly worthy of a "yass queen" Hahahahahaha my former company doesn’t even do COBRA, I basically had to pull teeth to get pay stubs. In other insane, I think that job was actually cursed news, I had an insanely amazing interview today with a company. I really hope they like me and make an offer, and I feel that maybe they will! As I came out of the interview, I had an email from a company that rejected me a week or so again, asking for a phone call. I talked to the recruiter for that place and turns out the rejection was a mistake. She had told me she wouldn’t be able to get back to me as quickly, so I had been surprised that I got the rejection so fast. Apparently wires got crossed while she was out and they rejected me before clearing it with her. So they made me an offer! Junior Software Engineer, lower than my NYC offer but more in what I’d cost of living make. I told them I was in talks with another company and I’d have to get back to them. She was really upset (not with me) and said although she couldn’t flex in salary, they could find other ways to make the offer better because they didn’t want to lose such a good candidate. She said to keep her updated as soon as I know because she wants to compete with who I’m talking to. So! I uh, yeah, I’m not used to all this positive feedback? I’m alternating between glowing and bewildered.
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Shirec posted:Hahahahahaha my former company doesn’t even do COBRA, I basically had to pull teeth to get pay stubs. Everything's coming up Shirec! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M67E9mpwBpM
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I was under the impression that COBRA was a mandate that the insurance company offer you a short-term contract extension, not something a company has to support? Last time I quit they didn't even talk about it and I got the paperwork from the insurer in the mail a day or two before I would have had to get it back to them to continue coverage which felt almost like a joke at the time. "Hope you feel like dropping everything and paying for 24-hour delivery lol!" Joke's on them because I'm too stubborn to go to the doctor and use the insurance, anyway  Anyway, glad everything's coming up Shirec now that you don't have to suffer through hellboss' cursedjob anymore.
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Shirec posted:Hahahahahaha my former company doesn’t even do COBRA, I basically had to pull teeth to get pay stubs. This makes me so happy. You deserve some happiness and good news after the hell you've been through the last couple of months. Soak it up, please, if not for you then for the rest of us!
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And then PM all of us your Glassdoor review
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CPColin posted:And then PM all of us your Glassdoor review
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Shirec posted:she couldn’t flex in salary  See if you can get a signing bonus or stock options (if they're public). Otherwise, if you're determined to go with them, see about additional vacation time. Also, the common pattern in the industry is reserve stock that vests over several years, and every year they "refresh" it. Treat that like income when you're considering whether to stay or go, don't fall into the trap of "but there's another $xx,xxx if I stay another year".
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Volmarias posted:
My plan is currently to ask for exactly that! I think they have unlimited vacation (I just got the offer in writing in my email) and I'm reading the benefits now. So I plan to counter with signing/moving bonus, and if they are good with that, I'm going to sign with them (unless I get an offer from the company I interviewed with today, because they were ~amazing~ in every respect and I like what they do a lot). Also fun thing, both of these interviews were facilitated by fellow goons and I appreciate both y'all a lot and owe some drinks/coffees when I get in the city  Also, to glassdoor requests! I am thinking this will work. I'm re-writing what I wrote, so it'll be different words (thesaurus woo!) and moving the structure of what was there. I'll test it with some googles and then post it here, so everyone can experience the review but not in a "goon shows up where I live" way. I'm a little sad to give up on NYC because the idea of there being ~so~ many lesbians around, but I know that dream will continue to exist (and maybe the L will be open again by that time  )
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Be careful with unlimited vacation, in practice it is often very limited by social pressure. I asked one of my interviewers at a place with "unlimited vacation" how much people usually took and the answer was "most people take about 2 weeks" like that was a good answer.
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Jose Valasquez posted:Be careful with unlimited vacation, in practice it is often very limited by social pressure. Yeah : / I don't actually think of it as a great perk, because normally I'd get paid out on leaving a place because I hadn't used it all, but unlimited is the standard that I've seen with engineers/developers. I've also never actually been able to sucessfully negotiate, so do I just email back (if I go with this one company) and say, I've reviewed the offer and I'm prepared to accept if you were able to add a $5k signing bonus? Also what is reasonable for a signing bonus for a junior software engineer? I don't want them to rescind : ( Any warnings on posting the glassdoor thing? I've googled the re-write and none of it shows up, so I feel ok about it
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Shirec posted:normally I'd get paid out on leaving a place because I hadn't used it all This is not guaranteed in all 50 states in our glorious union  quote:a $5k signing bonus Be sure to find out if there's a repayment schedule on a signing bonus! Companies can and will write a promissory note into a signing bonus so that you must work for them for X years or pay back the bonus upon separation, prorated. This isn't automatically a deal breaker but you should be aware of it if your active plan is to continue job-shopping and jump in fewer than X years. quote:Any warnings on posting the glassdoor thing? I've googled the re-write and none of it shows up, so I feel ok about it I want to read it as much as the next poster but you really shouldn't post it so that it can be connected to you. Just because something doesn't show up in the Google index right now doesn't mean it won't tomorrow, or it might show up some other index, or some drat thing. Anyone can register an account to track your posts in the non-public parts of SA if they realize you post here at all. Schadenfreude is suuuuuper nice but realistically no good can come of it.
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Pollyanna posted:Don't forget that this forum is public and probably indexed by Google. If this is the worry, you can screenshot the re-write and that won't be indexed.
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Don’t post the review. For fucks sake.
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Virigoth posted:Don’t post the review. For fucks sake. 
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Virigoth posted:Don’t post the review. For fucks sake. As much as we'd all love to see the review, this is the correct advice.
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