Question for y’all A friend is an engineer at Microsoft. She negotiated badly when she first got hired, low salary. Bureaucracy there makes it hard to move it up— changed roles, got a promotion, all not significant. She doesnt want to leave— what can she do for a big $ increase?
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It’s a bureaucracy problem. My suggestions were to get other offers (I think that allows HR to raise it more than a % of current salary), to try to get recognized by high up folks in the company, and to network within the company to learn what others make and their advice.
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Replying to @sehurlburt
Some advice I haven't seen in the replies so far: 1) in general, take HR out of the equation and make sure to have an explicit conversation about it with her manager's manager or higher. 2) remind everyone that she has the option to go public with it all, including the $ numbers.
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Replying to @colmmacc @sehurlburt
(2.) is an often overlooked negotiation strategy. It can be very effective, and it doesn't involve being willing to leave. "well if you can't do anything, let's make sure that others don't suffer the same fate by getting the full story out there" can trigger escalations.
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Replying to @colmmacc @sehurlburt
I know you mean well, and it could work, but there is real risk with this strategy that it will just blowback. e.g. "troublemaker" Arguably this is the kind of thing that is easier if you have privilege to start with.
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Every strategy carries that risk, and every strategy Is easier if you have privilege. It takes nuance and judgement to negotiate all that, but I think this approach is one of the least personally risky. I don't think there's a totally risk-free way to go.
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