IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Noodleface said:

Expecting a fat 3% raise this year. Also some sweetass profit sharing

Should've stayed at Akamai lol

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Told you so.

My experience has shown anywhere from 3-6 but I get 15-25% moving companies

Bonuses here are like 3.1%. At Emc it was some laughable number every quarter, few hundred bucks.

Akamai was the best, it was 10% bonus + profit sharing

Plus I forgot but I had something like $25k rsu vesting

Boss has 8 spreadsheets he's gotta check to do a price update in our system (four types of spreadsheets each with a before price and an after price), ranging from 300k lines to about 1.3 million lines. He was complaining the other day about it taking hours to do a vlookup from one spreadsheet to the other, making it take pretty much an entire weekend to do a price update. So I was like well hey, let me take a look, and so I wrote him a script to grab, parse, associate, and write all the information in about 30 minutes for the 1.3 million line one, and like 5 minutes for the rest.

He was so happy, but it was so easy.

Dude, this is all they're allowing me to work with. I'm on the same exact page, though. We get our drawings to the shop by printing or drawing them on a sheet of paper and walking them over.

40/hr is selling yourself super short. No wonder you get a lot of contracts

You have to work for peanuts on those sites if you want to get any contracts at all. The people who hire out work through those internet consulting sites either don't know anything about software development and what it entails or don't give a shit about the quality of the final product as long as it "works". It's cut rate software. You're not going to get any work through them if you try to consult through it at a reasonable rate (for the US)

My contract is up for recompete this year and I honestly hope another company gets it. Most people take pay cuts when this happens but Im pretty sure I can get a raise. Plus the company that I'm thinking is likely to win has much better benefits. If I don't get a raise then it's time to jump ship (and get a raise).

Our holiday package is a bit better than other companies ive worked at just due to the Christmas week shutdown we get. This isn't counting traditional PTO though. I get 3 weeks, but I've worked at unlimited too.

Anyone have experience with using recruiters as a job seeker? What is industry standard, or your experience as far as the payment they take? I always assumed the employer paid the finders fee or paid them direct but I am hearing people that have been charged directly by the recruiter via a fee or salary %.