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

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...
 
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Khane

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Promotions aren't about people or skills Noodle. They're about bands. Like Def Leppard.
 
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Cad

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Noodleface said:
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...
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Nice work!
 
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MusicForFish

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Noodleface said:
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...
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Grats buddy, good job!
 
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Khane

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Okay grandpa.

"Hands at 10 and... oh sorry young man I need to step out of the vee-hhhiiiical now"
 
Noodleface

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Was mor worried about how he lost his arm..

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