For personal reasons, I didn’t get the chance to negotiate my TC. What can I do as an employee to maximize it in the future? TC: 163K YOE: 0
If you want to get 10-20% increment year to year, work hard and be the top performers league at same company. If you want 20-40% jump, keep changing job every two years. First year, work hard. Second year take it easy, everyone knows you are good and then when there is enough shit accumulated, change jobs. The cycle of hard working year followed by easy fun life keeps your Work life balance perfect.
Wow seems legit. Time to work hard
Listen to this person, OP. I have never changed jobs and my TC has only risen by about 40% (base by 20%) in two decades. Which would be no big deal if my starting salary hadn't been just 32k. Hop. Jump. Get money.
To put this into perspective I went from L5 at Amazon to L6 is one year had the best review of my life had other managers and peers putting great stuff on my review and still only got a 10% raise and no extra stocks. Amazon comp plan isn't set up for great performers so don't plan on getting good comp till year three and it's still a gamble on the stock going up. If you are good hop.
So now u realized that and are coasting standard 9-5 and not selling your soul to the company?
Amazon comp bands are horrible for top performers since they limit additional grants based on stock price appreciation. "I loved hearing from my manager that our stock price increase is my promo reward", said nobody ever.
Leetcode?
Hop to another company?
Leetcode, then hop