How much have you increased your TC during negotiations?
E.g., company initially offered 200k TC. Your signed offer letter is 250k TC. You negotiated an additional 25% TC.
If you're going to negotiate without an actual competing offer, you have to just assert your compensation expectation, and if it's not unreasonable, be unwilling to budge. Obviously, if you ask some unreasonable amount, they'll never agree and likely try very little in counter offering, because they'll think you're bottom line and their top line is too far off. But again, you need to be willing to walk away from their offer in order to truly hold all of the cards
Is it reasonable to expect getting an additional 10-15% without a counter? I’m in the process of getting counters, however I’m not sure they will beat my current 200k offer. Once I do have those, I could simply state I have other offers (not state their amounts), but for me to sign today with the company offering 200k, they could add 10% to the TC.
My Google offer went from 240k to 350k after I got a counter offer.
I’m not in the Bay Area or an A-list city, so your wizardry may not be reproducible in my market unfortunately. Congrats though, that’s a big bump! There’s only like 3 companies in my city that pay peak comp. I’m at one of them currently, and I’m in talks with the other.
That is almost reproducible to almost every Google candidates, unfortunately.
0. I asked for a relocation bonus and couldn't even get a couple hundred for silverware and other basics since I moved up here and only had a car's worth of shit. Told "only for senior and above really". Gee thanks.
My offer went from 120k/0%/40k to 150k/10%/80k. Few things I did when I didn't have a counter, - Didn't reveal what I was making at the time (Made 105k TC) - Did not mention what I expected - Did not react on receiving the original offer, simply said "Thank you, I'll need a week to think about it" - By day 3, they WILL call you back and ask again, now you say you'll get back the next day - Day 4, sit down and write an email about how the initial offer is too low because of X,Y and Z achievements at your current job. And how you won't be accepting it unless you get <insert outrageous expectation>. Mine was 160k/10%/80k. - the recruiter is tired of you, the process has gone on for a week and is wasting their time and they don't want to go through the whole interview process again so they go and actually try to get you. - you receive final offer in the mail, no more phone calls, signalling this is the best the company can do.
Deserves gold
This is fantastic but having it get to the point where they physically mail you an offer sounds like you walked a fine line where the appearance may have been you being fairly disinterested. But it got the result.
You look them in the eye and tell them what you are worth. And dont blink
I negotiated Apple from 270k to 340k and Google from 290k to 325k recently before accepting Uber's offer, which I was only able to to negotiate a signing bonus.
Also— do companies bake in wiggle room to initial offers, anticipating you’ll counter with (depending on the poll results), say, an additional X%?
Lots of companies will lowball you, yes.
So how can I just ask for 15% more without a counter offer? Just because I’m awesome? I’m sitting on an initial 200k offer. ~3+ yoe. Not Bay Area.