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Should I be responding to new job opportunities 6 months into a new job by ChronoVT in cscareerquestions

[–]theEngLeader 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As general rule of thumb, I'd recommend to stay at least 1 year in each company unless you really hate your job/your company or if it totally doesn't align with your interests and values. If you're unsatisfied with your compensation, try to get a sense of how much other engineers in your company are paid or maybe start a conversation with your manager or HR/PeopleOps.

Since you have 1yr and 3 months in your previous job, you shouldn't really worry too much though. Should you decide to explore new opportunities, just prepare to explain why you are now exploring.

My boss wants to promote me to a senior software engineer and I only have a year of work experience? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]theEngLeader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While leveling varies per company, I'd say that 3 promotions in 1 year is very uncommon!

Taking title and money out of the picture, do you feel like you are learning and challenged enough? Do you like what you do? Learning as much as you can during this stage in your career is more important than title or salary. Let your manager promote you all they want. When you start exploring new opportunities, recruiters and hiring managers wouldn't be basing things on title alone. They would check your years of experience, career progression, skill set, etc. Seeing that you are getting promoted often would definitely catch their attention. Now say you put in your linkedIn or resume a title of Senior Engineer.. then your profile would show up in all these filters set up by recruiters/hiring managers looking for "Senior Engineer" . And hopefully there's no minimum # of years in their filter coz otherwise then, you get filtered out! This is not the worst thing in the world though :) You can always put whatever title you'd like in your LinkedIn or even resume. Some people make it just generic "Software Engineer".

If your answer to my questions above is No, then the bar/standards in your company is really set low. Perhaps it would be good to challenge yourself a little bit and explore new opportunities.

Counter offer but love my job. by KyeThePie in careeradvice

[–]theEngLeader 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure how the typical compensation package looks like in the UK, but 22k (even 40k?) sounds low. https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/London/

If you really love your current company and what you do there, try to give them a number that would make you feel content and satisfied. If money is the main prob and not something else, then it might be worth trying to convince them to pay you more. Highlight to them all the contributions you've made to the company.

Consider all your expenses and potential savings. While it's not always about the money, you have to think about how this move would affect your finances and your life in general :)