Questions tagged [promotion]
For questions regarding promotion or potential promotion within the workplace
457
questions
1
vote
3
answers
537
views
Is it ethical to ask manager repeatedly after short interval for onsite opportunity?
I was added to a project a year ago and it was stated that there will definitely be some onsite opportunities later in project.
When I asked, manager told me he will put forward my name to upper ...
- 199
-4
votes
3
answers
247
views
Is getting free discovery calls from coaches without having an intention to purchase OK?
I like getting coaching sessions. I find a place some coaches are offering 1 hour free coaching. Till now, I got plenty of free coaching from different coaches. I know these coaching calls are kind of ...
5
votes
2
answers
733
views
How to get career back on track
My wife was diagnosed with a rare and difficult to treat cancer. I became a full time caregiver and was out of work for a year. I left a role as a staff level (one above senior) software developer at ...
- 59
-1
votes
3
answers
628
views
Should employees get promotion as soon as they show some higher qualities? [closed]
I work as a test automation engineer at a software company in Germany.
Recently, I asked for a promotion after 3.5 years, but my request was turned down because my manager thinks I haven't been "...
- 1,393
-1
votes
1
answer
497
views
Huge gap in promotional increase comparitive to team members
I began a new position at the end of October last year, leaving an underpaid and overworked role at my previous company. During the interview process, I conducted research on platforms like Glassdoor ...
- 549
0
votes
1
answer
451
views
Should I Ask for a Lead Title if I Expect to be Manager?
Background
This year, I was transferred to a struggling software project as a developer. My time with the team has been difficult due in large part to shortcomings with management. During my time with ...
- 935
-3
votes
3
answers
927
views
Manager wants me to attend work at a different area for remote work (far away)
I work 3 days with my team, and 2 days a week at a far away campus (think an hour and a half) my work is fully remote, I'm a data analyst for a large school with 5 campuses. I'm being paid the lower ...
- 1
-1
votes
2
answers
666
views
My son was promoted, offered increase, then offered interim promotion, and is still waiting for retro pay 30 days later
This is a bit tricky. My son took a position with the city for park and rec department. They are short staffed, and a position that matches his skills became available after being with them for about ...
- 11
2
votes
3
answers
790
views
a manager of a smaller (merged) company became the boss in the LARGER company that acquired them?
I have been a Director of Software Engineering for a large (3000+ employee) company managing a few development units (200 software development lines) for about 10 years. 5 years ago I have been ...
- 307
6
votes
4
answers
1k
views
Assigned to a senior role without salary raise
Situation: I am working as a product manager on a product that is designed and implemented by our software engineer contractors.
Due to insufficient delivery quality of the contractors and given that ...
- 125
-4
votes
2
answers
447
views
Can I be denied a promotion because the job requires car insurance but I don't drive because I have narcolepsy?
I am thinking of applying for a promotion at work. It requires you to have a certain type of car insurance coverage. However I have narcolepsy and am unable to drive, due to excessive sleepiness ...
-2
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Handling a manager's irritating behaviour, rejecting promotion request
In the organization, there are 3 levels of managers, L1 (my direct reportee), L2 (middle management), and L3 (C-suite). I've been performing well since the day I joined the organization (1,5 years), ...
- 671
5
votes
5
answers
2k
views
How to preserve professionalism in a difficult environment
I work as software engineer in a pretty young company (5 years old) and I'm making a lot of errors that can ruin my career.
Until some months ago everything was great: the compensation is just ok. We ...
- 169
-5
votes
2
answers
369
views
How to avoid the higher expectations that come with seniority as well as any desire on the part of management to promote me?
I work for an organization that has a pay structure such that advancing beyond senior developer is utterly undesirable, but has excellent benefits and lots of vacation time and a strong stock market ...
- 21
-1
votes
4
answers
580
views
Not Feeling Confident In My New Position - Should I Return To My Old Position?
It's been about 8 weeks at the new position I've been promoted to at my office, and while I would have hoped to feel more confident in this position by now, I'm not feeling as confident as I would ...
- 10.3k
-4
votes
1
answer
481
views
Is it a good idea to ask my boss for a one on one in this scenario?
Our department restructured and my new boss called me into his office a while ago. He offered me a new position title with a raise. Long story short I asked him if I could just be a senior project ...
- 277
2
votes
2
answers
2k
views
How do I handle a situation where my manager wants me to promote a member of my team who isn't ready?
I manage a team of product managers. We have a promotion period once a year. The process is like this: the manager nominates some of their team members, then a group of seniors and directors would ...
- 153
12
votes
5
answers
8k
views
How should I reject a promotion that is based on compliance rather than merit?
I have been given the prospect of a promotion, which really is just a title change that comes with more responsibility, but not more money or more authority.
But it has happened that someone (let's ...
- 163
-1
votes
2
answers
194
views
advice around promotion during web development placement [duplicate]
I live in England and started a 1-year web development industrial placement in September between 2nd and now 4th year of Comp Sci degree at a very large company with 5+ sites.
4 weeks in, the only ...
- 1
2
votes
3
answers
1k
views
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 ...
- 29
0
votes
3
answers
433
views
Waiting to move to a different team with no set date
I'm a junior tech worker who works at a company that works mostly with other businesses in various industries and technical setups.
Since joining, I have been in the same team, which is now more than ...
0
votes
5
answers
485
views
Can I counteroffer for an internal promotion after it has been signed?
I signed a job offer for a promotion in August for a position that will be starting in January. I have been working for a company for almost two years at one location. The promotion is to support six ...
- 1
2
votes
2
answers
471
views
How to develop as a recently promoted team lead when your VP is always busy?
I've been a software engineer for quite a while, but recently I got promoted to a team lead which causes me a lot of STRESS.
Now I'm superior to my peers which makes all of us a bit uncomfortable, but ...
- 21
-2
votes
1
answer
832
views
Constant, juvenile conflicts with colleague after promotion turmoil
I am Software Architect at my current company. I was offered the role of team manager when my manager (who I’ll call Bill) was promoted 6 months ago. I told Bill that I would probably provide greater ...
3
votes
2
answers
619
views
Unexpected Promotion & Little Experience. How to Judge an Appropriate Salary for a my New Position?
I have recently been told that I will soon be receiving a promotion to a new position, Product Owner, at my annual performance review. This was fantastic news to me, but I realized upon thinking it ...
- 145
-2
votes
3
answers
1k
views
Is my current workplace actually trying to retain me?
I recently received a much, much bigger offer and a promotion to join another group. I've been dissatisfied with my current job because the leadership has been fickle and irresponsible. However, I ...
- 263
0
votes
2
answers
623
views
I feel undervalued and don't know whether I should stay? [closed]
I have been trying to break into the legal industry for a few years now. Covid and the subsequent working from home have done nothing to help my plight.
Approximately four months ago I was contacted ...
- 919
19
votes
2
answers
6k
views
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. ...
- 325
4
votes
2
answers
616
views
Should I mention that a previous manager promised me a promotion when applying for it?
My previous line manager was always enthusiastic about my contributions to our workplace. Privately, he told me in review meetings that the next time a suitable promotion came up it was essentially ...
- 3,537
33
votes
6
answers
3k
views
How do I safely decline a political/controversial promotion as a woman?
I've worked with my current employer, a large tech company, for 3 years now. The job is good in general, pays well, etc. My division (about 15% of the company) started a new program to encourage women ...
- 341
1
vote
1
answer
875
views
Should I involve EEOC if I haven't been promoted for over 25 years?
I've been working for Veterans Affairs Medical Center for over 30 years. My last promotion was 25 years ago (from GS 4 - GS 5, step 10) and that one turned out to be a dead end job. According to ...
2
votes
3
answers
886
views
Tips on what I should do to move up?
So I work for a company doing maintenance for a web application. The web app is so old, has an insane amount of legacy code and has hundreds of thousands of lines of not so great code if I'm being ...
- 805
3
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Should I leave my job now or after promotion even though I already tried to resign? [closed]
I want to leave my current job as the pay is not good enough and it was my first full time job which I initially took on to gain some experience.
I am planning on going on leave for 1 month from mid ...
- 43
2
votes
6
answers
3k
views
Interim role offer without a raise
I have been offered an interim role to cover maternity leave.
The interim role will be for 6 months. It will involve more day to day tasks. This includes monitoring of team members and tasks and more ...
- 975
1
vote
3
answers
2k
views
Colleague got promoted instead of me but quit shortly after! [closed]
I have been working in a medium-size ad agency for 5 years. I started out as a designer but after about a year, I started to talk to my manager about possibly being promoted to Art Director since I ...
- 35
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
Promotion to "Senior" after less than 2 years of working, potential dangers?
For some context, our team looks as follows: We're 1 manager (also our best developer, he's responsible for servers, pull requests, DBA, IT architect etc etc), 1 teamleader, 1 senior dev and 5 new ...
- 161
50
votes
5
answers
15k
views
Big promotion offer but am I hurting my career with the title?
I'm the data team lead at a company of 40ish people. I've been in data/analytics for 7 years total, 5 years as a Data Scientist, the past 3 as lead here. The CTO is retiring and he told me today he ...
- 489
1
vote
2
answers
845
views
SWE achievements
I have heard about Google's XYZ résumé formula but I struggle to describe my experience with it.
Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z].
The hardest part is ...as measured by Y... but ...
- 13
-2
votes
1
answer
396
views
Asking for promotion and raise short time after hiring
Around 5 months ago I have joined a small company as a software developer. I find the work quite motivating and I feel comfortable using the tools/language we use, which means I have been very ...
- 247
-1
votes
2
answers
815
views
Promotion refused despite good performance review because of transition to more management responsibilities
TLDR
My performance review (based on engineering skills) was positive, I applied for promotion and got refused because in the next period I will be taking managing responsibilities (and I'm new to ...
- 728
3
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How to handle an angry manager after a promotion?
I got promoted recently. I've noticed that since then, my manager gets angry on me quite frequently and on trivial issues.
I ignore it, and take his feedback in positive light, but it's uncomfortable ...
- 339
0
votes
2
answers
1k
views
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 ...
- 275
6
votes
3
answers
3k
views
As a salaried employee, how do I tell my boss I won't do extra work without being paid more?
I have worked for a few companies now, and I have noticed a trend, where oftentimes my boss (or above) will want to assign me more work compared to other co-workers on our team or department.
This ...
- 322
0
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Can I negotiate a higher salary using the understaffing to my advantage?
Okay, so here's where I am.
When I joined the project in 2019, the team consisted of 4 FTEs with myself as the only junior employee (the others were test leads in Systems Engineering and QA). ...
3
votes
2
answers
6k
views
What is a typical salary raise when promoted to software lead position? [closed]
I've been working for about a year in a tech company in europe as a software developer. Based on my field, technology, experience and location, I believe my salary is a little above average. I was ...
- 193
3
votes
4
answers
620
views
For non-tech jobs, how important is facetime in the workplace for advancement if you are in a lower- or mid- level management position?
This has been something that’s been bugging me for awhile, and I wanted to get your guys’ opinion on it. Now that we are living in the post-COVID world (or hopefully soon once Omicron is done) with a ...
- 322
0
votes
1
answer
461
views
Should I ask for a raise at current company when I receive offer+promotion from another company?
I will start by providing some little context: I was interning as a developer at a company A while I was in last year of my college, one year back. Since it was still a pandemic in my country, the ...
- 103
6
votes
5
answers
2k
views
Hired on the same level as university graduates with no work experience even though I have 3 years relevant work experience, how to approach manager?
I'm a solution architect working on for an international tech company. I was hired on one level lower compared to my male colleague (both of us were hired at the same time for the same position in the ...
- 87
-1
votes
2
answers
449
views
Do you have to be a people person to succeed in the workplace? [closed]
Do you have to be a people person to succeed in the workplace? Like do you have to be able to manage teams, etc to get promoted generally speaking?
Assume the roles are technical in nature. So if you ...
- 275
0
votes
3
answers
897
views
I've accepted another job and handed my notice in but current employer wants me to stay [closed]
I've been with my current employer for over 5 years, and in general I love the company and the work that I do. Unfortunately, a couple of years ago there was some restructuring and now my team, that I'...
