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Negotiating A Pay Rise In Software Engineering?
5 Progressive Tips on how earn more, make lots of management friends, and influence HR too!
As a progressive software engineer, pay rises in the permanent world¹ most often revolve around the tedious and soul destroying process known as the annual performance review.
We’ve discussed facets of this macabre dance of death in previous articles, but today we’re going to showcase some generally more impressive (and honest) ways to net that progressive pay rise — generally within the first 5 minutes of a performance review.
You might want to strap yourselves in.
1 — Relative Importance
Often times it’s best just to cut immediately to the chase and highlight the difference in importance to the company between yourself and the chair warmer conducting the performance review.
They’ll thank you for the forthrightness and clarity, let alone your honesty!
By emphasising that your skills and creativity are the reason why the company actually makes money and therefore is able to provide the necessary leeway to carry the dead wood sitting opposite is always a winning strategy.
(That is, unless they’re a blood relative of the CEO or happen to be the chairperson of the local golf club —…
