Noodleface
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IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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Noodleface
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Finally got promoted. Literally three years of having my boss submit me for it and the company pushing back.
Essentially you need to be at 90% of the midpoint of the band of the next title before they can consider you for a promotion. The band moves every year of course and it has been outpacing the standard 3-4% raise we usually get. You're basically in a stalemate because no one can get increased enough to be considered for a promotion unless you blow your budget on a single person.
In March at my yearly review my boss went balls deep with HR and pushed for a crazy 30% raise AND a.promotion for me while maintaining his budget for everyone else. They said I'd need a 45% raise to get the promotion, so they denied it but allowed me 30%. Never had a boss go to bat like that for me before.
So anyways, today I got my promotion and increased my salary by 45% in a single calendar year. I guess someone at the company wants me to stick around...
Essentially you need to be at 90% of the midpoint of the band of the next title before they can consider you for a promotion. The band moves every year of course and it has been outpacing the standard 3-4% raise we usually get. You're basically in a stalemate because no one can get increased enough to be considered for a promotion unless you blow your budget on a single person.
In March at my yearly review my boss went balls deep with HR and pushed for a crazy 30% raise AND a.promotion for me while maintaining his budget for everyone else. They said I'd need a 45% raise to get the promotion, so they denied it but allowed me 30%. Never had a boss go to bat like that for me before.
So anyways, today I got my promotion and increased my salary by 45% in a single calendar year. I guess someone at the company wants me to stick around...
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Sheriff Cad
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Noodleface
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I hate how accurate that is. We're transforming to a company wide scrum at scale model and the people in charge seem like they only know buzzwords
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Haus
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And now a day later on a serious note. I find myself this morning at a juncture, a fork in the road so to say, and looking at a decision which might define my remaining career trajectory until retirement.
I've been in cybersecurity sales for around 15 years now, as a pre-sales technical resource, then also as a manager/director of pre-sales technical resources. Currently I'm doing the individual contributor role with a large cybersecurity vendor.
I have two things trying to lure me right now.
Option A - Stepping from the vendor side to the reseller side. Moving from a technical specialist into a wider range "Consulting Architect" bordering on what might be called a "Field CISO" role. PROS : I've done reseller side work, I know how it goes, and it would be a comfortable gig. CONS : It would not have a high ceiling on earnings, but it would be a steady good paycheck probably for however long I wanted to do it. I could probably easily ride out the last 5-10 years of my career in this gig, and it's moderately low stress for me.
Option B - Stay at the company I'm at and move into a managerial role over the team of "new recruits" into my type of role. Junior SE types where it's usually their first job in the field out of college. Here I'd be doing a lot of training and mentoring. And over the last couple years I've been tapped to "take one of these ducklings under your wing and show them the ropes" and damn if those side quests haven't become the single thing I've enjoyed most (outside fat commission checks of course). Stepping into this role would be moving me farther from customer facing, and definitely into my "Master Shifu/Obi Wan" Era, and probably also be where I'd ride out the rest of my career....
I know I need a change from my current role, which over time has evolved further and further away from what I see as my core competencies. The only other option I was thinking was hunt down a "hungry young company" and see if I could roll the dice on a startup to try for another big financial score before I call it a career...
And yeah I realize this might not be the best thread for this, but it's the closest I think we have around here for general IT career discussion.
I've been in cybersecurity sales for around 15 years now, as a pre-sales technical resource, then also as a manager/director of pre-sales technical resources. Currently I'm doing the individual contributor role with a large cybersecurity vendor.
I have two things trying to lure me right now.
Option A - Stepping from the vendor side to the reseller side. Moving from a technical specialist into a wider range "Consulting Architect" bordering on what might be called a "Field CISO" role. PROS : I've done reseller side work, I know how it goes, and it would be a comfortable gig. CONS : It would not have a high ceiling on earnings, but it would be a steady good paycheck probably for however long I wanted to do it. I could probably easily ride out the last 5-10 years of my career in this gig, and it's moderately low stress for me.
Option B - Stay at the company I'm at and move into a managerial role over the team of "new recruits" into my type of role. Junior SE types where it's usually their first job in the field out of college. Here I'd be doing a lot of training and mentoring. And over the last couple years I've been tapped to "take one of these ducklings under your wing and show them the ropes" and damn if those side quests haven't become the single thing I've enjoyed most (outside fat commission checks of course). Stepping into this role would be moving me farther from customer facing, and definitely into my "Master Shifu/Obi Wan" Era, and probably also be where I'd ride out the rest of my career....
I know I need a change from my current role, which over time has evolved further and further away from what I see as my core competencies. The only other option I was thinking was hunt down a "hungry young company" and see if I could roll the dice on a startup to try for another big financial score before I call it a career...
And yeah I realize this might not be the best thread for this, but it's the closest I think we have around here for general IT career discussion.
moonarchia
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Are you working to live or living to work? Figure that one out and you will know which path to take. For me? I know how little time I have left to rebuild and sock money away for retirement, so I would take whichever option pays more, and continue applying to those startups in case something better comes along.