Hi Blinders, I'd like your input on what a good salary is for Northern NJ at a very large non-tech company (Colgate-Palmolive). I don't have an offer yet but I expect the base salary to be around $110k with great benefits (100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, tution reimbursement, and some 401k match) and very good work-life balance. The position is for a "data engineer". I was initially aiming for $120-130k base salary so this seems a little low. It's difficult to compare this to the Big Tech company salaries, but I'd like your input on this. I'm not looking to optimize only for TC, I'd like to maintain work-life balance while also getting good TC. If you have experience with career trajectory at Colgate or similar non-tech companies, I'd also appreciate that. Do they have an individual contributor track for tech people? Sorry for the long post, but thanks in advance for the advice. #colgate #nontech #nj
Hi did you accepted data eng position in Colgate? How is the team and compensation?
Sorry for the very late response, I didn't get any notification for this. I never actually got to the interview stage for Colgate, the recruiter I was going through dropped me. The recruiter did say that he didn't think Colgate would be able to offer me $110k, he said the range was around $70-90k.
The growth will be 1-2% per year forever. And in 5 years you won’t be able to get out of there to faster growing companies.
I figured growth would be pretty low unless I got promoted internally. I don't expect much of a yearly raise. Do you think it would be worth it to accept the position if they offer tuition reimbursement and then use it to get a master's degree?
Even with internal promotions. I have been at a similar company - I left when new hires out of college were given higher salary than I had, even though I had 2 promotions. Also, college reimbursement is not good usually. They will reimburse you for Rider’s MBA (useless) or an equivalent.