I 2.5x’d my salary by
1. Hiring a negotiation consultant, and 2. Get offers from 3 FAANGs.
The consultant just told me what to say/email, and I did it. Not sure it would happen now 2 years later.
1. Hiring a negotiation consultant, and 2. Get offers from 3 FAANGs.
The consultant just told me what to say/email, and I did it. Not sure it would happen now 2 years later.
buried the lede.
securing offers from 3 FAANGs is something very few people can do. that alone is immense leverage.
Nowadays after they cut all those people - yeah, definitely
The consultant previously worked at both Amazon and Facebook. I was working at Amazon at the time, and got competing offers from Facebook and Google.
Even with the competing offers I’m very happy I spent $3k for the consultant. Lots of good drafts of emails ( I did still need to carry the email ), but lots of great advice about strategy, and about what buzzwords to say and to avoid, which company to talk to first and what number to ask for that would be very easy for them to hit.
We ended up pushing FBs offer up to the limit before triggering an escalation then sent that to Google to beat. I would NOT have done as well without them.
They even told me “FB is gonna try and pressure you with a time limited offer. The time limit is not real. Don’t feel the pressure.” Stupid info like this was itself worth the money.
I did have a job at the time, though.
1. Each level has a range of salary/stock that they can't go above and you can infer the range by looking at the reported info on levels.fyi. For my company you have no possibility of negotiating into a higher level.
2. If you haven't been offered a signing bonus just say the words and 10s of thousands of dollars will magically appear.
3. You can push back on their offers many times. Previously I'd only ever made one negotiation move but I think there were 3 rounds of back-and-forth for my current job.