I'm preparing to start searching for a new software engineering job, hopefully with much better compensation than in my shutterfly job and am wondering if there is a company I can hire to help with compensation negotiation. Are there non-recruiting agency services like this that will handle compensation negotiation for you and help get top dollar? Short of that, what books do you recommend to learn how to negotiate better? TC 140k Desired TC 180k+
Lol. You don’t need ‘negotiations’ to go from 140k to 180k. Thats very standard. Hell I think 180k is still low, aim for 200+.
You can negotiate for yourself for the most part. Just remember to prepare. It’s as much of a preparation (if not more ) as other parts of the interview. I really liked the book “never split the difference”.
+1. Especially the Ackerman model (chapter 9).
There's a Masterclass on negotiations
I negotiate on commissions 😂. Just have another offer and back the companies to as far as they will go!
Also don’t give out any numbers until they have decided they wanna hire you and make them say the number first.
Can’t agree more on not giving # first.
I have, got me 60% increase in comp. Dm if you need a contact
60% of what? It matters.
Curious - what do they do? Prepare you? My thought was negotiation is simply a function of the leverage you have so wanna know what the negotiator does?
Just get two or three offers and bounce them off eachother
What's a good way to manage this? Do you research several jobs and wait to apply to them all at the same time so hopefully the offers would come in around the same time?
Exactly. So my last round I applied to like 20 companies, lined up interviews with 9 and got 5 offers. I never intended to even join twitter but after telling them how many offers I had and negotiating hard they paid up big. Negotiating really isn't that hard if you have multiple offers. "Thanks for the great offer but company XYZ is offering me a TC of xxx. I really want to work for your company though, I really believe in the product. Can you work with me to reach that number or close the gap?" If you don't have other offers then you're probably gonna have to do some research to see what you think you would get at another company of the same stature and say you have an offer for that amount. No company is going to rescind an offer for you trying to negotiate, they will just tell you sorry, can't move on the numbers.
Your best comp negotiator is multiple offers.
There's a company (Candor.co) that apparently helps prep for salary negotiation. Never used them before though
Yea you can hire me and I'll do it. DM me
My tc is 200 so you know I'm legit