Samsung Offer - Senior Engineer
Yesterday I received an offer of 150 base, 12% annual bonus with relocation to their Austin office. However, the offer doesn't come close to my desired salary. How much of an increase can I negotiate for this to make sense? Increasing the annual bonus is non-negotiable, getting a sign-on bonus and increasing the salary are ideal but idk what the added and increase will be. Also, is there a tremendous gap between Sr. Engineers and Staff Engineers? #tech #samsung #samsungelectronics
Avoid samsung its a bad company to work for across all subsidiary. Doesnt matter if its SEA, SSI, etc they are all the same. Level is based on your work exp years. Staff you lead a team of 12 or so while sr you lead around 4. So yea big difference. Career advancement%path is also non existence over there. You need like 3+ years of the highest rating (top 1%) before you are being considered. And if you are non-Korean then even longer.
SSI is pretty chill actually, SRA and SEA are ass tho don't go there. I'm assuming OP is going to Austin semi conductor which is different from SSI, if so that division is chill too
SSI was chill when I was there until semiconductor price drops (This was 2017 I believe) Entire department got cut with 2 weeks notice, then everyone forms factions to try to get absorbed by another team. Whats left got laidoff.
Sky is the limit if you want to negotiate and are willing to let go of the offer if it does not work out. However SEA is not known to pay that well, but has good benefits, and a lot of Samsung perks in their store. Better WLB than startups. Senior to staff would take about 3 years on average.
Whats the tc for staff?
Screw that. 150k is like bottom of the barrel remote now. No way I’d relocate for that.
What do you expect? Remember you are from a sinking INTC! lol
Well, for me, I am Sr. staff. Base is $225k, annual bonus is 25%, and my sign-on bonus was $130k.
Seems higher limit for Senior. I’d say no negotiation available. Even they give u 2% more bonus rate.
Not much maybe 10k
Comparing that to what I've been told is tremendously different. I'm assuming there is a huge pay difference and it's much harder to get in at that level. Is there a rule of thumb for ~range in exp. to distinguish the two levels?