Questions tagged [negotiation]
The process of two or more parties attempting to find a mutually agreeable arrangement. Generally this refers to salary/job offer negotiation or business transactions.
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How can I lead co-workers into active problem solving instead of expecting explicit numbered instructions?
I am a software developer with 10 years of professional experience. In order to gain experience leading a team, I have decided to be involved in a side project with a friend who switched careers via a ...
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Is it common that the sales team haggle with software vendors? [closed]
My employer is a small software company that builds enterprise application software. I am a dev manager, managing a team of about 10 developers. One thing I always feel uncomfortable with is that our ...
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Negotiate unofficial offer?
I've applied for a job and went through three interviews. Today I got an email from the HR person who conducted the first interview. It says that the team is going to make me an offer that will most ...
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No/Delayed Promotion
I have been working in a start-up. I started out as a designer despite having 7 years experience. Some time after I joined, the startup started looking for a senior designer with 4+ years of ...
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New project proposal to different companies
I proposed a business development to three IT companies from my state during the last months without any answers. Suddenly, in a single week, all of them are interested in talking with me to learn ...
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Accepting liability to employer contractor [closed]
I work in Finance, and in the course of my employment need to use the services of a 3rd party, who have an existing contract with my employer. Some routine paperwork I would fill to register with the ...
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Is it a good salary negotiation tactic to say, "Make me an offer and I will either accept it or walk away"? [closed]
I've recently relocated to Europe, and people negotiate here very differently from what I am used to. Long story short, I'd like to ask how European employers would react in the following scenario:
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How to approach salary negotiations when there's a verbal promise of annual bonuses?
I've just been given a job offer, and the quoted salary is ~10% below what I'd like. They've verbally told me that I could expect a 10-15% annual bonus based on performance. If that's the case and I ...
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1-5% founding CTO equity?
I am a PhD candidate in a technical field who recently met two other folk of similar interest and embarked on an entrepreneurial endeavor. They are interested in starting a company that requires the ...
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My employer is demanding that I change my lifestyle
I work as a researcher in Germany and have recently been approached by the boss's secretary and told what can be summarized as follows:
Hey, we pay you one of the top salaries in our research group, ...
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Best way to Negotiate Salary?
I think will be getting a job offer soon. They interviewed with me 4 times now.
They kept asking what I want or my salary range. I never gave them a clue. At the end told them if they think I can ...
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Negotiating salary tactics
Suppose a person has been at a company for 4 years and hadn't received a pay increase.
What is the best way for this person to negotiate for a higher salary? Ask his boss directly?
Should the person ...
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Faking an offer to get a counteroffer
Is it advantageous for an employee of company X to tell them that they got a better offer from company Y (assuming it is fake) just to get company X to offer a better salary/offer?
I am asking because ...
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How to interpret advertised salary range (at UK startup)?
Advertising salary range in job posting is becoming more and more common these days. Some of the ranges are very wide, say [x, 1.5x] (e.g., [60k, 90k]).
How to guestimate the final salary that the ...
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Negotiate a salary after signing a job offer
I've applied for a job offer that suits my needs (role within the company, technical stack...).
After a few technical and HR interviews, I got a job offer with what I describe as a highly interesting ...
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I have one offer from a startup with a compensation lower than market rate (no other offers). Is there anything I can do to bring it to market rate?
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#salary-united-states
I’ve been using this survey as a guideline, and I’m in a high cost of living area (SF Bay Area). After initially quoting this, the co-founder ...
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Can I ask to be considered for another opening in same group?
I was hired for an Analyst role. A month after my joining, our group published a senior analyst opening. My qualifications (education + work experience) fulfill the criteria mentioned on the website. ...
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Huge raise but required to stay for 2 years [closed]
Throw away account and keeping details brief.
My current employeer is trying to stop exodus in my department.
As an attempt they are offering substantial raise, which would put me slightly above ...
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(Update) Homeoffice privilege vs kitchen chores at work
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We have a break room including a kitchen at my place of employment, where most (about 25 of 30 employees)
are scheduled to care for the kitchen on a daily rotating wheel.
Some of my co-...
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Strategies to deal with a sadistic dominant person whose compliance you need?
I am in a situation where I have to provide my services and products to a health care insurance companies in a specific area (prosthetics).
A certain health care insurance company hired a product ...
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How should I open salary negotiations with contracting company?
I work for a company as a contact employee. I sub contract through a staffing company.
I am the senior back end developer on four enterprise level projects. Two of which I am the only person who knows ...
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How to use an external job offer to get a pay rise at current company? (UK)
I am from the UK as I understand culture might influence the answers.
I have seen some questions similar asked here but I think there are some nuances that should permit this question being asked.
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Should I be paid equally for the same work
I graduated with a MSc and now I'm working my first job. Everything was fine until this year when I asked to renegotiate my salary. I asked for 35% to compete with inflation and compensation for all ...
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Leadership refuses to extend the contract [closed]
I work in a company that employs people all around the world (remotely). Since it does not have bases in particular countries, their employees are essentially contractors that renegotiate the ...
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Company rescinds offer after inquiring about benefits, what did I do wrong?
I received a casual job offer through email after writing an interview follow-up. By casual, I mean there was no professional letter just a response stating, “We would like to offer you the position ...
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Reasonable to request for pushing out start date again?
So I have already pushed my start date for a new job by a month previously. I now start in a week, and I’m meeting my potential manager again in a day or so for something else. I’m still okay with the ...
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What are the considerations of a 'rational' manager when asked by an employee for a raise?
Suppose that I, an average software developer with a satisfactory record and an average skill-set, employed for a few years in a company with a healthy development budget, approach my manager and ask ...
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Denied raise due to inability to relocate during wartime [closed]
For the context: At the time of writing this question, there's an ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I've been working full-time remotely as a backend developer for US company for slightly over a ...
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How is the vesting schedule compensation “deduced” from the salary during negotiation?
Context: North-America work culture. I make up the numbers because there are not important here.
I am negotiating my salary with Bob. The company offers a vesting schedule of 3 years, 1 year cliff. I ...
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How do companies/employers fill roles when they have unrealistic or below-market salary expectations?
I've had a couple of interesting experiences lately, and it has me wondering, how do companies fill positions when they have below-market compensation budgets?
I had a recruiter reach out to me about ...
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Rejecting A Signing Bonus - How To Avoid Red Flags?
Context is North America, Information Technology.
When applying for jobs in the current market, signing bonuses are becoming more prevalent. These typically come with a tenure-based clawback clause, ...
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Refusing a raise tied to mid-term commitment inside the company
I approached HR for a raise at my current company. I enjoy working with my team and doing things, but I'm feeling a bit underpaid with respect to my duties and the current market value.
HR offered me ...
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Prospective employer recommends a lower initial salary so that expectations are not too high
When interviewing for a consultancy job, the recruiting manager at the company asked me about my expectations concerning the salary. Since I did not want to be lowballed I gave a fairly large salary ...
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Offered job at lower title than applied for: does this impact my negotiation power?
I applied for a position of Staff Software Engineer at a top gaming studio and got the great news yesterday that they'd like to extend me an offer, though at a lower level of Senior Software Engineer ...
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Company offered a lower pay than initially discussed [closed]
I've been in discussions with a new company lately, and after our first discussion we have agreed on a range of salary. Then I have passed all the interviews/assessments they had; the feedback from ...
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In for a promotion from individual contributor to team lead, what counter-arguments can I put forth for better conditions?
Our department is expanding and I was encouraged to apply for a new team lead position, which I was hinted as the primary (perhaps even the sole?) candidate for.
We have had an informal interview ...
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Can I ask about the full-time compensation package when receiving an internship offer?
I'm worried about coming off as presumptuous, but at the same time it's a significant factor in deciding what internship offer to accept, as quite often an intern receives and accepts a full-time ...
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Renegotiating a start date on request of current employer (after contract signed)?
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I've recently negotiated and accepted a contract with a new company. My starting date is set to few months away. After signing, I notified my current company of my intent to leave (this seemed ...
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I got a great job opportunity but did I apply too early? [closed]
I am working in the software engineering field, where I work in one of the top firms. I enjoy my current position, but after some minor remarks from management I decided to send my CV to some other ...
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Contract being given to a new prime: do I try and negotiate?
Background: SE, work for a government office somewhere in the USA, not in an area with a ton of other employers for SEs. My background makes me very suited for government work.
I was hired as a ...
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Negotiate for better pay amidst organization reshuffle
I've been working for the current IT company for almost 6 years now. I've stuck with this employer this long for personal reasons.
I've had 5 different managers here. Just right during performance ...
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How to manage salary expectations when moving to a smaller company?
I (senior software dev) have been contracting for a small tech company for the past couple of months and was recently extended an offer for the position of CTO. I was told to come back to them with a ...
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Is it normal to expect to know how much a job can pay when interviewing?
Recently, I have applied for a programming position at a small start-up and after a couple of interviews and a long technical task which took me a good portion of a week, I was offered a salary much ...
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Should I tell the interviewer I have a job offer from the competitor?
New grad here. Had a job offer from a startup tech company and about to interview another startup in a few days. Both startups are basically doing the same things (their office is in the same building ...
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How do I deal with a manager oversimplifying tasks to encourage me to take them?
Our company has a new manager, who is eager to prove himself. During our regular meetings everyone is encouraged to take on more tasks and to grow. That's not unusual in any way but I don't have any ...
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Asking for a salary which is more than what you initially quoted, due to promotion at current company - ok or not ethical?
I am interviewing for a firm, and am at the final stages of getting an offer. Initially, the HR had asked me for a salary "expectation", to which I quoted a number. However, I have recently ...
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I accepted a very low offer after an internship and I want to renegotiate, is it too late?
I'm working as a developer for a company for almost 2 years. I have been an intern for 1 full year, and then got an official offer from them. It was a full time development offer but with lead ...
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Got offer letter with letterhead 9/13, submitted counter offer two days later, no reply since. How to followup?
I've been speaking to the hiring manager since the beginning since their recruiter was too busy, and it's been great. She has a great understanding of my background and where I want to go.
She ...
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Company does not want to pay the hours workers were available when servers were off due to a hacker attack. Is it fair?
I work in the finance department of a relatively big corporation that was the victim of ransomware. The servers/applications that my team need were completely off for 7 days because the IT department ...
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Should I ask a professional to refrain from contacting my company?
I am currently finishing an internship and my manager has signaled that he would like to hire me on a permanent contract. We have started talking about salary expectations and he's taking it to HR by ...
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