Comment by ErrantX | Hacker News Reader

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A) Sit your employer down and say "I am applying for Jobs in the 80-100K range because <list of reasons>. When I get an offer I will take it, you are welcome to make me an offer to stick around now"

B) Get on LinkedIn and scope out some recruiters, reach out to the ones you like the look of with a brief of the sort of role your looking for. Get on the phone with them and get their advice - they will get you interviews.

Don't stop B if A works. Ultimately you should leave your current employer - they are not going to "get it" overnight so it will happen again in some form.

With your skills I'd expect to see you earning at least 80-90K depending on location. Aim for more full stack or DevOps roles. Consider management or team lead tracks - you clearly have strong organisational skills.

> Sit your employer down and say "I am applying for Jobs in the 80-100K range because <list of reasons>. When I get an offer I will take it, you are welcome to make me an offer to stick around now"

I don't know if I would recommend that. No upside to the employee. A large "egoless value maximizer" business will simply do nothing until employee shows them an actual offer, and only then counter-offer if they want to retain. A small business where manager's ego is a factor may just fire the employee on the spot for disloyalty. Pretty close to zero companies will respond by immediately raising employee's salary to what he wants.

So I'd agree if he were in the US, but in the UK you couldn't fire someone for that (well you could but you'd lose the tribunal).

I've been in his shoes at a small company; they are taking his requests and ignoring them as is because right now they have a great deal! He needs to tip the balance more in his favor.

OP seems critical to the business; assuming that's true triggering an oh shit moment is how you get movement.

Unless the candidate is disproportionately valuable to the org.

Then, people start jumping. Usually implying they should have been jumping previously.

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