I’ve been working for over a year at a startup and haven’t received a yearly review. Is it professional to shoot out an email to my manager and ask for a salary raise/yearly review? The startup has over 100 employees and is doing pretty well on the funding front. P.S. This is my first ever full-time job.
Just talk to them informally. It's usually helpful if you havr another offer but even without one you can always bring up the topic.
If u joined a startup in it's early days, then review process/pay raises may be not be formalized yet. They assume you are working in a company for stocks. Sometimes founders don't even have time to formalized such process. I joined a startup as 9th employee. No one got review/bonus or any refreshers until startup grew to around 120+ employees. That took around two full years after I joined. Performance review process/pay raises were just not in founders priority list. Only one person was handling HR/immigration stuff. When startups have limited cash they don't want to put their cash to formalize unnecessary processes in it's inception days.
Did you happen to ask for a raise during the period of those 2 years? I’m just worried they might sack me if I asked for a raise, I know thats totally lame to think of. We are a startup of over 100 employees and are doing pretty good on the funding front.
Most trusted way is to get the offer to prove that you are getting less than your market worth.
Sure depends on the startup but be ready to look for a new job if the conversation doesn't go well
If the manager does not agree for a raise and I stay back at the startup would it reflect bad on me?
Depends. If they say no you must quit. If they say "sure let me just do some shit that takes months and get back to you" then you have a few months