I can look at SV salaries and only shake my head. Random 'jump between jobs every 6 month if needed to improve your net worth' advice from single mid-twenties (not talking about the author, no clue about his background. But it feels that this is the general attitude around salary improvement here) is not globally applicable.
And the author basically says 'invest in the company and THEN ask for the reward'. He's ignoring the 'or else' part. I am 100% sure that a healthy portion of envy and fear is part of my rejection, so let's say I'm coming in with a rather negative attitude. But that article is completely and absolutely devoid of content.
"Work harder, then ask for a better salary based on your excellent performance" isn't exactly worth a blog article. Writing down the year over year effects of N percent in salary is trivial maths.
He's followed by Patio on Twitter, so I give the author the benefit of the doubt and believe that he has sound advice to offer, a decent idea about negotiation (with the 'context matters' caveat). But this article seems .. a fluff piece?
> "Work harder, then ask for a better salary based on your excellent performance" isn't exactly worth a blog article.
IMO. It's actually bad advice. It's wrong to think of salary as something synced to productivity/value.
Working more guarantees pretty much nothing about future money. Only that you're underpaid, and you've made yourself even more underpaid because you put more hours.
"Get offers and negotiate as hard as necessary. Then work whatever you may or wish." That's a way better strategy.
I can look at SV salaries and only shake my head. Random 'jump between jobs every 6 month if needed to improve your net worth' advice from single mid-twenties (not talking about the author, no clue about his background. But it feels that this is the general attitude around salary improvement here) is not globally applicable.
And the author basically says 'invest in the company and THEN ask for the reward'. He's ignoring the 'or else' part. I am 100% sure that a healthy portion of envy and fear is part of my rejection, so let's say I'm coming in with a rather negative attitude. But that article is completely and absolutely devoid of content.
"Work harder, then ask for a better salary based on your excellent performance" isn't exactly worth a blog article. Writing down the year over year effects of N percent in salary is trivial maths.
He's followed by Patio on Twitter, so I give the author the benefit of the doubt and believe that he has sound advice to offer, a decent idea about negotiation (with the 'context matters' caveat). But this article seems .. a fluff piece?