I’m a SWE with almost 3 YOE looking for negotiation advice for my upcoming performance review.
Current situation: – Making $85K, want to ask for $100K (which was a raise my coworker with the one more YOE got last year) – Market rate for my role/experience seems to be $110K in my area – Company got acquired this year – Had a performance review in March (75K → 85K) – Company is moving everyone to the same annual review cycle, so my next review is coming up next month, making a slightly tighter 10 month difference between my last and next review
Since March, I’ve: – Taken on more complex tasks and become the SME for a huge new feature – Greatly increased my task completion rate – Seriously increased my participation to compensate for our lead engineer leaving after working there for 30 years. Our product is super complex and our team is small, so everyone had to pick up the pace.
My concern: Even though I played all my cards right with my performance, the March raise might make it harder to justify another big increase so soon. My coworker made this exact salary jump last year, but that was before the acquisition so it’s hard to gauge how much I should I ask for now.
To be clear, I don’t feel entitled for a raise, but given that so much has changed since my last review, I’d like to do this right.
How would you approach this negotiation? What points should I focus on? Am I missing anything?
Thank you!
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r/cscareerquestions I’m a SWE with almost 3 YOE looking for negotiation advice for my upcoming performance review. Current situation: – Making $85K, want to ask for $100K (which was a raise my coworker with the one more YOE got last year) – Market rate for my role/experience seems to be $110K in my area – Company got acquired this year – Had a performance review in March (75K → 85K) – Company is moving everyone to the same annual review cycle, so my next review is coming up next month, making a slightly tighter 10 month difference between my last and next review Since March, I’ve: – Taken on more complex tasks and become the SME for a huge new feature – Greatly increased my task completion rate – Seriously increased my participation to compensate for our lead engineer leaving after working there for 30 years. Our product is super complex and our team is small, so everyone had to pick up the pace. My concern: Even though I played all my cards right with my performance, the March raise might make it harder to justify another big increase so soon. My coworker made this exact salary jump last year, but that was before the acquisition so it’s hard to gauge how much I should I ask for now. To be clear, I don’t feel entitled for a raise, but given that so much has changed since my last review, I’d like to do this right. How would you approach this negotiation? What points should I focus on? Am I missing anything? Thank you! submitted by /u/Leanador [link] [comments]
I’m a SWE with almost 3 YOE looking for negotiation advice for my upcoming performance review.
Current situation: – Making $85K, want to ask for $100K (which was a raise my coworker with the one more YOE got last year) – Market rate for my role/experience seems to be $110K in my area – Company got acquired this year – Had a performance review in March (75K → 85K) – Company is moving everyone to the same annual review cycle, so my next review is coming up next month, making a slightly tighter 10 month difference between my last and next review
Since March, I’ve: – Taken on more complex tasks and become the SME for a huge new feature – Greatly increased my task completion rate – Seriously increased my participation to compensate for our lead engineer leaving after working there for 30 years. Our product is super complex and our team is small, so everyone had to pick up the pace.
My concern: Even though I played all my cards right with my performance, the March raise might make it harder to justify another big increase so soon. My coworker made this exact salary jump last year, but that was before the acquisition so it’s hard to gauge how much I should I ask for now.
To be clear, I don’t feel entitled for a raise, but given that so much has changed since my last review, I’d like to do this right.
How would you approach this negotiation? What points should I focus on? Am I missing anything?
Thank you!
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