Anyone who has gotten a nice juicy raise have a playbook I can follow?
2. Do as much interviewing in a short time as you can stomach.
3. Try to get offers from multiple companies. Tell each company that you love them best, but you've got a better offer, and you've got mouth(s) to feed, can they do any better?
4. Take the best offer you can get out of the company you think you'll like working for the most.
The only time I would suggest that is if the place you want to be hired at only hires through recruiters. Otherwise you should find a way to apply directly to the company.
I've submitted resumes to companies directly and been ignored--probably dumped in an HR inbox somewhere. Then I later come in through a recruiter and had them pursue me aggressively.
Feel free to look through my comments--I'm not a recruiter.
If you go through the company directly, you won't get a straight answer on salary up-front. You can be as direct as you want on salary with a recruiter middleman without hurting anyone's feelings, though.
> in the long run I believe your "brand" is a much bigger driver of wealth than job hopping
This seems to imply that in the long run one can be "much" wealthier by... making less money? Compound interest comes to mind.
If they were truly valued more by their bosses, they would be paid more.
This is ridiculous, but not unsurprising coming from a recruiter
You're also a bad boss who never gives people payrises, and that's why you need to find people to "trust".
I think we'll all be fine if there's another 2008 without your 30% below market rate jobs, thanks.
It’s an interesting situation. Companies are trying to make their founders billionaires, but we must begrudge and judge the workers for a chance of becoming a millionaire by playing it like business.
As a hiring manager, I would generally exclude, from the 2-3yr min concept, roles like consultancy/freelance or circumstances beyond the candidates power to avoid (layoffs, acquisitions, etc.)
I don't see it as a hard rule to follow, just something to ask about if there are like three 1 year stints at different places in same town.
If thats all the job calls for why should I do anymore?
I'm not saying only bad developers do this, but there's an extra incentive for them to do so and increase noise for recruiters.
My typical work week the last 5-7 years is 15-20 hours on 2-3 projects of typical 3-month duration.
I turn down A LOT of projects.
I an a hybrid consulting analyst/business analyst that does business process design and integration specification.
ALL of my clients want ALL of my time right now. I did 4-5 months of 50 hour weeks and then just said, "STOP".
I then told ALL of my clients that if they want priority access to my time and more than a day a week they need to commit to monthly retainers (large ones) that they can cancel at any time with one month penalty.
Most were like, "ok, we'll figure something else out" (because corporations would rather have record profits than sustainable businesses).
One I am still negotiating with. But since I put a premium on time instead of money it's not really a negation, it's more like "here are my terms."
If you are any good at what you do maybe you also need to decide what is important to you and then find a company that will meet you there.
But even though this is slightly off topic I am curious what other small consulting practices and freelancers are doing to maximize their income right now. In my mind this is like 1998-2001 where I made A LOT of money. If I am going to work hard right now I will not be doing so to make rich people more wealth but rather to increase my coffers so I have even more freedom to say NO.
I am just a stranger so take this with a grain of salt but I suggest changing this mentality. Don't worry about rich people creating more wealth because rich people will always do and it is not a binary game. Try to think of a win-win situation where you can make shit ton of money regardless of whether rich people make more money or not. That will work much better. Instead of having "Rich vs poor" mentality, have a "They can do it so can I and even if that means working together/mutually". I think we can see more success if we work WITH the rich, not against them.
That should probably clear most hurdles of taxes, benefits, etc. since they have already figured that out.
If they allow remote workers for software jobs then it would be easier for them to hire you since they already have people employed there.
Moving to west or south Germany instantly means 30% pay raise for a solid dev.
That said, passed a threshold it is a matter of having “enough”.
A piece that's addressed less is how to get multiple offers. I treated my job search like a funnel - I talked to as many potentially-interesting places as I could, either through my network or looking back through all my old LinkedIn cold outreach messages (and marking myself "open to offers" there).
Then I did maybe 6-7 pre-onsite "interviews" - sometimes this is a technical screen, sometimes this is coffee & in-depth conversation with the hiring manager, depending on company size and how the manager likes to hire. I tried to schedule these clustered together, to keep all my potential jobs at the same stage of the funnel.
Then I did 3 full-day onsites within a week and a half - I was working full-time so even that felt like a stretch. I only chose to onsite at places that I was really excited to work at, and where I felt very good at my chances in the onsite interviews. And luckily that resulted in 2 offers so I could negotiate.
I did actually try this funnel approach unsuccessfully a few months beforehand - I ended up with only 1 onsite I was excited enough about to take a vacation day for and then didn't pass it, so it's certainly not a fool-proof plan. But, it did work out for me in the end.
You can push on recruiters for slow companies if somewhere you're excited about is lagging behind your "funnel" - you can let them know that you've moved to onsite with 2 or more other companies but you're super excited about them so definitely want to get your phone screen scheduled asap; or you heard you're going to receive an offer and will probably need to decide within a week; is it possible to move up your onsite before that deadline? Having other interested companies is a strong signal, and recruiters will pretty much always want to rush you through if they think you're likely to be a "hire" decision from the team.