Started interviewing because of shit pay and no promo, and have the following offers. Feel like I’m being severely lowballed — does anyone have any ideas? I have decent work life balance and don’t hate my job — but the pay is peanuts. I thought that other companies pay better, was i wrong? I was told that these were Senior roles — but these offers look like a level lower? I don’t want to switch if the TC increase is barely 50k. UPDATE: Heard back from the TikTok recruiter, they’re willing to offer 70k per year of stocks, so that bumps the TikTok TC to 323k. Current TC 250k, YOE 4
Also if all offers around the same then that’s pretty much your value - 4 great companies gave you offers and still complaining
I’m shocked you have multiple offers in this climate, especially at data scientist. Role got devalued a lot by having a vague description that seemed to amount to “can hack Python” In addition to it being a conduit for random academics to big tech positions Sentiment above re: stop complaining isn’t what I would have said but is concise and well-reasoned
I have a niche skill set.
why wouldnt microsoft pay you more if you have niche skills ?
“Barely 50k!?” It seems like you have some unrealistic expectations on what a job switch should bring you. That’s a 20% bump in a crap market. Take it and run.
I would have to make a context switch, and give up my decent WLB, for I don’t know what kind of WLB in the next company. If the bump is not at least 100k, not worth switching imo
Then you have your answer. Your appetite for change won’t change the markets willingness to pay. With only 4 YOE you’re fungible.
Posts like this at a bear tech market 🤡
Seriously
Huh?
Take the Google offer.
You have 4 YOE and make 250k. Who do you think you are? You can’t have it all. This is ridiculous
So you make 250k and now everyone should?
You say you have great wlb and make a quarter of a million per year 4 years into your career. I’m not arguing shit. I’m saying that you need to have realistic expectations. If all of your offers are coming in below $300k, that’s what your skills are worth on the market right now. Your entitlement won’t change the data. You of all people should get that
DS can mean many things, data analyst (usually meta), mix of analytics and ml, or more like MLE. Do you know what would you be doing in each of these companies?
definitely lowballed, but that’s just the how the current market works
I must be completely out of the entry level market. Are 4 year experienced ppl getting 250K now considered earning peanuts? What should people with 20 years experience earn? 4 million? What is the pay for 4 yr experienced folks in fang?
This
This is called entitlement of immature babies
“shit pay and no promo” 4YOE and 250k is probably about right….. what do you think you should get paid….? I’m 6YOE and only 250k cash and startup options.
Sounds like a you problem to me. L5 at google and meta are making 330k + easily.
never said it was a problem. sharing my comp as a data point. point is that if you didn’t get promo and interviewed a bunch of other places and all the offers were basically the same, that’s probably where you belong.