No matter what a startup ever promises, they never make good on it. And worse if it does manage to somehow get legs, they will screw you out of any payout you would be getting anyhow. If you were still unmarried and without kids and hated your current gig, sure roll the dice. But in your situation, I would not roll the dice with no obvious upside if I were in your place.
Yes. We use Fabric for a variety of things now. We have to use github over Azure DevOps for "automation" purposes but I have so far failed to see how Github actions is in any way different from using Deployment pipelines in Devops. You even configure them with the same .yml/bicep stuff.
Roles like that generally require a business need aka an open req in my experience. Senior to Staff can get the rubber stamp via the manager and maybe director but principal and above requires more scrutiny.
If you got a 30% bump last year (congrats btw) then even if this promotion came in with no salary increase, would you be roughly at the salary you expect for that title? I'd focus on that and focus on where you are in your career and if this is taking you there rather than the specific salary/raise year over year. The trajectory of your career and not to sound cliche, but where are you going to be in 5 years? type questions are more important than are they screwing me on one raise, IMO.
Thanks for the insight. I am a little less worried about salary, though I do expect some increase. From what I know, I am below the band for the next level. Maybe not a crazy bump but I expect to hit the middle of the next band as my baseline. I guess I'll watch for that.
You also want to thread the needle between being seen as a title/money-hungry mercenary and a "team player". You don't want to make yourself their bitch and you don't want to clock out at 40 and be like "I'd stay over if you gave me a $5 raise" either - somewhere in the middle. Seem invested in company success/advancement but also make it known you know what the bands are and you want it to be appropriate. They don't like cucks and they don't like mercenaries, you need to be in the middle.
I'd probably be way better/worse now at that. Both better at leadership and less sympathetic to retards.
And people wonder why Indian hatred increases.
