Interesting Data Gigs # 81: Closed mouths don't get fed

Some resources about how to negotiate your salary

Feb 24, 2024

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Are you truly earning what you are worth? If you don’t ask for it, you will never get it

Hey Data Geek.

This week I read a very interesting post from Sahil Bloom on LinkedIn

Sahil had explained this brilliantly:

Closed mouths don’t get fed

So, my question to you is: are you truly earning what you are worth? It’s time to fight for it.

There are a lot of resources out there about this but let me share this number with you first: according to an article at Business Insider:

Negotiating your starting salary — and continuing to negotiate every few years or when you start a new job — could make a $1 million difference in your lifetime earnings.
Source: Business Insider

So, start early and learn to negotiate your salary since your first job. Employers are expecting you will negotiate, so this is part of the process.

If you don’t do it, you can leave money on the table every single time.

Here are my favorite resources to learn how to do it properly:

Next time you enter the salary negotiation conversation, use these resources and get a better buck for your time.

Good luck

Open roles of the week

Data Engineer at Notion (Location: San Francisco, CA; Salary range: $170,000 - $235,000 per year)
Data Engineer at P&G (Location: Warsaw, Poland)
Data Engineer at Fractal Analytics (Location: New York, NY; Salary range: $96,000 - $145,000 + bonus)
Data Engineer at Acadia (Location: Chennai, India)
Sr. Software Engineer, Data Engineering at Galileo Health (Location: New York, NY; Salary range: $185,000 plus equity)
R&D Software Engineer at Mechanical Orchard (Location: Remote US)
Analytics Engineer at ThreeFlow (Location: US)

And for those subscribers who wrote looking for DevOps roles, here are some of the positions I’ve found this week:

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ThreeFlow
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering at Textio (Location: We support 100% remote work for applicants who reside in the following states: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Washington; Salary range: $175,000 - $257,000 (target range: $185,000 - $210,000)
Senior DevOps Engineer, Internal Tools at Cohere (Location: Toronto / New York City / San Francisco / United States / CanadaTech – Data /Full-Time /Remote)
Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer - Operations (Bangalore) at Kong
Senior DevOps Engineer at DataSnipper (Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps) at Nexthing (Location: Madrid, Spain)
and DevOps Engineer (NYC) at Wiz (Location: New York, NY; Salary range: )

BTW: remember if you are actively looking for a new role, you can join our Talent Network. It’s completely free for candidates.

Good luck with your application

Interesting resources of the week

Tool of the week: Teal

Marcos out

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