Soft Skills Engineering - Episode 482: I got a promotion, but a tiny raise and an imposter interviewed for my team

Starting point is 00:00:00 it takes more than color coordinating your headphones your mouse your escape key and editor color scheme to be a great software engineer this is episode 482 of the soft skills engineering podcast where i'm your host james and dance i'm your host dave smith soft skills engineering is your weekly advice show about all the non-technical things that go into the technical field of software development like the all-important escape key mouse sock color coordination yes my belt matches the javascript reserved words color on my editor does it mean like don't mess with this like you're not supposed to i don't know mess with reserved words no overriding the belt i also learned that color coordination does not mean

Starting point is 00:00:54 they're all the same color and oh that's just how i how i realized how uncool and how poor of a eye for aesthetics i have i do too well you can't have that bad one because your belt matches the reserved words color yeah i guess i mean if you believe that that's actually true that would be interesting maybe you're like rob pike and your editor just has no color scheme at all it's just black text white background oh well and then if you have a black belt then it does yeah i don't my belt is yellow oh okay yellow text white background that would be a an interesting choice i do dark mode so probably it's actually a good chance it matches yellow text on a black background would also sound horrifying uh anyways let's get out of here dave do you want to thank

Starting point is 00:01:40 our patrons i will big thanks to those that are contributing at the level on patreon where we shout them out every week they are how to test front end.com beta test compiler cash yes that's a benedict cumberbatch reference way to go team engineering leadership summit october 24th an open space event register at el summit.com let's normalize calling curly braces squiggly braces even though they're pretty curly and not so squiggly and put any funny quips so my name spans episodes i remember this one oh that's a deep one you're you got to be a super fan to to get it all right woke up this morning comma got myself dave watching sopranos smile smiley emote icon forget delusions of grandeur my co-workers have delusions of adequacy

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Starting point is 00:04:03 literal closing parenthesis well played well played patreon people oh thank you you enrich my life absolutely especially the subtle benedict cumberbatch references jameson on that note would you like to read our first follow-up from a previous episode yeah why didn't you comment on the best benedict cumberbatch mangled name yet beta test buffer cache my tears are immeasurable oh it's because i didn't notice i didn't know i'm sorry it was so good and so subtle oh there's i was about to say there's infinite ways that you could make up a benedict cumberbatch is it a homonym i don't even know what the word would be uh a thing that sounds like his name but isn't exactly the same i think so it wouldn't be

Starting point is 00:04:51 a homonym because that sounds exactly the same it's like a i'm gonna make up a word here morphophone is that a thing uh it sounds vaguely no that's latin-ish so i'll believe you it's a proxemophone i'm still i'm making that up too i don't know a proxemophone yeah i'll take it a proxemophone but i think it's time that we made a programming language based on benedict Cumberbatch. With nothing but these things? Yeah. Proximophones. Thank you for defining that, because now I can use the word. Dave, we have another

Starting point is 00:05:24 follow-up from episode 466. Do you want to read that one? Yes, we have a follow-up from episode 466. The listener writes in and says, Hi, I was the one from episode 466 with the fair, quote, does not meet expectations performance review who got a new job offer when my manager and

Starting point is 00:05:40 colleagues had just started noticing the results of the effort I put in to improve my performance. Jameson, do you remember what we advised this person? i'm pretty sure i do dave i think it was quit your job yes we did we're back we are back yep after a few years of not of being a little hesitant on the quit your job we busted it out anyway we told them to quit their job because they had a really good job offer and their current company hated him so quit your job if you have a new one right that might be the new version that's right a slight amendment on the original yeah it's a little more nuanced so anyway let me keep

Starting point is 00:06:14 reading the feedback so he says thank you so much for your advice and i did end up quitting just like you advised and taking the new job this of course meant i no longer had a chance to show my colleagues that i was improving so they will continue to think i am bad at performing at work and from what i can tell they do seem quite happy after about me having left which that's which i don't feel bad about at all surprisingly hey that's great i've also had no difficulties with performance so far during the first few months at my new more technically challenging job despite this place being more relaxed around deadlines and individual contributors which makes me think part of my poor performance might have been related to boredom or similar

Starting point is 00:06:52 keeping up with my new good routines regardless to ensure i don't fall back into bad habits all in all leaving definitely feels like the right call thank you again hey nice you're welcome i want to know how you know that your co-workers seem happy that you're gone are you getting vindictive messages on linkedin are they vague posting about you yeah on linkedin specifically so it's some inspirational bs about dropping the dead weight or something my favorite part about that is that he doesn't care it's like i don't feel bad they don't they're happy i'm gone and i don't care that's great because you know how much you should care about how other what other people think about you very little much that's how much yeah less than i do that's the answer i would love to care

Starting point is 00:07:33 less about what people think about me it's hard it's surprisingly hard to do actually i should probably care more about what some people think about me but less about what people in general think about me that's probably true that's probably true data should i read our next question let's do it all right this is from an anonymous listener who says after a year of trying i recently got promoted to staff engineer it's great to receive recognition for my work but i'm not actually very happy because i only got a four percent raise i spoke with a former co-worker about how much a staff engineer in my role should expect and he said he would be insulted by less than redacted number my comp is now slightly below redacted number in addition to this times are tough for

Starting point is 00:08:13 the business so it seems unlikely that we'll get annual bonuses meaning i likely won't even get to appreciate the larger target staff bonus what a bummer how should i approach this a year and a half ago getting a below inflation raise i was told i was at the top of my levels pay band and would need to get promoted if I wanted to go much higher. Now that I have gotten promoted, it seems like that wasn't true. I should be grateful that I still have a job and got promoted and got any increase, but I feel like I'm being shortchanged. How can I talk to my manager about getting more money? Yes. Oh boy. You did all the work. You did what they said and you were disappointed in the numbers. Maybe just for completeness, we should talk

Starting point is 00:08:52 about pay bands i think this sounds like a big company if they have pay bands not all yeah i don't know you don't have to be a big company it's kind of a big company thing though but in general that's a target range for a a level so if you're a staff software engineer you the minimum salary is x and the maximum is x plus y and sometimes there's overlap between pay bands to allow maybe the top performing level below to be paid higher than the lowest performing level above but not always sometimes they're discontinuous and i have seen people get to the top of the pay bands in their level before it's it's a it's a thing i think it's a way to avoid just giving someone a raise forever and ever and ever and hoping they still stick around yeah i mean i don't know it

Starting point is 00:09:37 yeah it's just probably a way to try to keep salaries vaguely somewhat related at the same level yeah i mean the purpose of the stated purpose whether it actually has that effect in reality makes sense to me basically it's like you want to you want to make more money do more for the company and we define do more as get promoted into this next level where your contributions have more value and then we'll pay you more yeah or maybe not much more in this case yeah i want to challenge one part of it which is you'd be insulted by less than a number you got slightly below that number you were at the top of your pay band you've gotten promoted and it seems like i've gotten promoted it seems like that wasn't true i think all of that could be true at the same time it

Starting point is 00:10:22 could be true you're at the top of your pay band and you got promoted and now you're just kind of near the bottom of the next pay band instead of somewhere in the middle ish so they they could be following their internal rules i guess that doesn't change how you feel about how much money you believe you should make but i don't think it's necessarily that they were lying to you about where you were in the pay band i actually could see the pay bands at the place i worked that had pay at the megacorp i worked i don't know if that was just because i was a manager or not but i could i could see my pay band i don't know maybe ask him ask him what the pay band is at some companies this is a carefully guarded secret at the megacorp i worked out they did not want people to know what

Starting point is 00:11:02 the upper and lower band was or upper and lower bound on their band yeah yes that varies and i've also seen this phenomenon where you think getting promotion is going to be a big raise for you And I guess I understand why you would expect that, but I think some companies have this idea that the promotion and the title change and the newfound glory that you will receive as a result of it are somehow able to stand in for money. It's like, congrats. You can now write staff engineer on your LinkedIn profile, and maybe your next company will pay you more. yeah you can't put a price on the glowing halo that hovers above your head now as a staff software engineer right but if you could it would certainly be way more than four percent right yeah you clearly got the good end of this deal yeah it is interesting though just as a general rule it seems

Starting point is 00:11:54 like a lot of companies will say oh this is going to be great experience for you in the and then in the future you can reap you can harvest that experience in the form of money or fame or whatever you want and it's like every company says that and and then you retire it's like wait i have built up this portfolio for what i was just listening to an interview with the creator of c sharp and the guy behind typescript what was his title let me look this up the same person did both those languages yeah wow he's a technical fellow there you go there you go that's like the tippy top which i i think that title is hilarious because it sounds like the way that like your grandpa might refer to someone that has technical aptitude like oh he's a technical

Starting point is 00:12:42 fellow yes pretty technical fellow handy with a with a screwdriver it's a technical fellow over there but it's it's the tippy top of the career for yeah it's like the archduke of technical super ultimate mega individual contributor type people it's such a funny word but yeah that's the word they use where were you going with that i can't remember why i thought that was relevant yeah it's a puzzle for you to figure out why that's relevant i can't wait to spend this weekend on it or are you saying that maybe maybe microsoft is like oh we'll call you a technical fellow you can put this on your resume for your next yeah yeah yeah good thank you for inventing c sharp here's your reward technical fellow yeah i can't wait to see how that looks on your linkedin

Starting point is 00:13:33 yeah i hope he has a bunch of money maybe if you hate c sharp in typescript then you hope that he doesn't but i don't know i think they're pretty good yeah so i mean this happens occasionally and sometimes it happens that if i were talking to this person in real time i would ask hey was this an out of cycle raise was the four percent increase something that's just a mid-year thing that happens to coincide with your promotion date. But then at your anniversary date, there's going to be another opportunity. And if that's the case,

Starting point is 00:14:00 that could feel a little bit better. It's like, we're going to do 4% now and then we're going to do 6% in six months and that will end up being a 10% effective increase for the year. And maybe that's like more in line with what you're expecting. Yeah, I feel like at my mega corp,

Starting point is 00:14:16 the company liked to double dip where they did promotions around the timeline of annual raises. And they would say, and that's your raise. like that's you got the promotion raise whether it's on cycle or not yeah it might so that could work it could not it's worth asking about certainly yeah i mean so you know what happened here before i go into like what i'd recommend doing here what happened here is you accidentally played the salary game and i don't know james if we've talked about the salary game in a while but

Starting point is 00:14:47 it's probably worth repeating what this is but if two people at a company want to share salary with each other they can play the salary game now the salary game has rules rule number one is if one party shares the salary then the other one must share the salary and you agree to these rules before you start and then the second rule is neither of you is allowed to get mad because one of you is going to want to and maybe both yeah even if you both make the exact same amount you might get mad which is an awkward situation there's basically any scenario whether x is greater than y or y is greater than x or whether they're equal one or both parties will feel justified in being mad yeah anyway but you have to promise not to that's that's part of the salary

Starting point is 00:15:29 game and what happened here is you played you got the salary game played on you without agreeing to those rules so someone essentially dumped a number and said if i made less than this i would be insulted and then you do make less than that oh that is a that is a rough feeling but you know what? You can sit around and feel bad about it, or you can recognize what just happened. You were given a gift. You now have information that you did not have about how much this company is willing to pay staff engineers. And you know that this other person makes substantially more than you. So that's a data point. And that can be used when asking for a new salary. Now, I don't mean to say that you should walk into your boss's office and say, well, you know, Jennifer, the other

Starting point is 00:16:16 staff engineer on the team makes X dollars, and that's like 20% more than me. I don't think you should do that. That's just not how that will not play out well. Instead, though, you can feel justified in asking for a much larger number. And in fact, this happened to me once. So I was at a company, oh man, probably 10 years ago. I had just been moved into a much higher level of responsibility. I think I got put into a director role, essentially from individual contributor to a director role and I was responsible for like 30 engineers or something. It was honestly kind of a crazy move in hindsight. And my boss gave me just like a modest increase, something in the order of this percentage, like 4%, maybe more. And I went to him and I said, hey, I feel like

Starting point is 00:16:59 I've taken on a lot of responsibility here and I'm just absolutely busting my butt to serve this company and I want to do that. And then I said, I got to tell you, I was disappointed in this increase. And if you had said X, where I put a dollar amount out there, I would have been so happy with that. And to my boss's credit, a week later, he came into my office and he said, Dave, we're going to increase you to X, which is exactly what I'd asked for. And the whole thing, I was just so happy with, even though I felt, I mean, I was disappointed. I wasn't like super mad, but I was disappointed in the original number. But saying what you want and putting a number on it and knowing that you're justified because you have this data point now in your in your hands

Starting point is 00:17:42 you don't have to share that you have it you just have it you can now ask for a very specific number and there's a good chance you get it now it does say times are tough for the business so maybe not but you know times are tough for the business can mean a lot of different things and increasing your salary by some amount that's really meaningful to you in your personal life might not actually be that onerous on the business yeah that's fair i i love the underlying principle of you can just ask for things and if you don't ask for things as a person who often doesn't ask for things i just hope that yeah the the the right thing will happen where i interpret the right thing to be i get this thing that i want by by doing something to deserve it i follow the rules i work hard this thing that

Starting point is 00:18:27 i've only said in my mind yeah and then the outcome i want obviously just falls out naturally from the way the system is organized and that is not not not not not at all how it works yeah and it'll be interesting to find out how much autonomy your boss has over how much money you make in general i think the bigger the company the less autonomy they have so if you are at a smaller company i think this is easier to make a change than if you're at a giant megacorp but i think the starting step is the same no matter what is to say hey this is what i would like i i think i have here's the reasons why i think i'm worth that how do i convince the company that this is the right thing for them to do and there is nothing wrong with that and i think a lot of engineers

Starting point is 00:19:09 have feel like there is some taboo that stops them from asking for the things that they want in when it comes to money and i'm saying state what you want ask for it and now at least at the very least, even if your boss can't deliver on it, at least they know what you want. And they certainly won't work toward what you want if they don't know. Yeah. I mean, I still feel that. I feel like if I think about big numbers, I think like, well, I shouldn't. I shouldn't do that. It's somehow rude or imposing on them or something. And I don't know if that's what I want. I think there's a reason to do it. At the same time, we are in an economic circumstance that gives them more leverage than they've had in the past.

Starting point is 00:19:54 That's right. And they might also just have less money than they had in the past. So yeah, I think you do have to be open to a, no, this isn't going to happen or it'll take longer than you might want or I don't know. But at least when you have the conversation and ask for what you want specifically,

Starting point is 00:20:08 then you can engage in that kind of a back and forth where they're like, yeah, we can't do that, but here's what we can do. And then maybe over the next six to 12 months, we can have a plan to get to what you do want. I'm like, great, that's awesome. that's way better than just zero i also want to encourage you to take your colleagues feedback with a grain of salt it is very valuable to hear their input but also comp is often path dependent

Starting point is 00:20:34 even at giant megacorps where they try to make it more objective and more even it depends on when they got in and what the sale what the band was like and what team they were on and how they compared to the people on the team and what their manager was like and how much the manager liked them across the different positions they held also i found the people most willing to share salary information with you can often be the the quote winners so someone who feels like they don't care how much they make or who's very underpaid or i don't know that might be someone less likely to say no you should ask for this much so it's it's it it might not just be the absolute truth that you got absolutely screwed over yeah by getting what you got and even if you did according

Starting point is 00:21:16 to this person it you might be in the best position you could be given the path that you took to arrive at your compensation yeah totally you can use it as motivation but i wouldn't use it as uh use it as data not as i don't know a truth it's a it's a it's a single data point not a comprehensive view yeah not a not a requirement that you must make that much or it is very unfair yeah and i'll just say this like you know i i wouldn't personally do this but not everybody is 100% honest about how much money they make. So keep that in mind as well. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:50 All right. Have we answered the question? I think so. Good luck. Dave, will you please read our next question? It's my time to shine. All right. This comes from an anonymous listener who says,

Starting point is 00:22:00 my company does not address complaints. Here are two examples. On my first day, the lead engineer told me not to participate in the project. He was impossible to work with. He would hold up PRs for three months because of linting and prettier rules. eventually I figured out he was exceptionally insecure and wanted no feedback or anyone to expose his technical weaknesses I conflicted with him a lot and got shuffled to another department my second example comes from a trainee I helped him out every day after stand-up for 30 minutes

Starting point is 00:22:26 how he passed his interview I don't know he didn't know what a semicolon was after a four-year bachelor's degree in computer science and six months of being a trainee I complained to a friend at work who had I don't know interviewed the trainee my friend was surprised and so we hopped on a call with the trainee who didn't recognize my friend. After snooping around on social media, we found that the guy who had done the interview was the trainee's brother. I told HR and my department head, nothing happened. Here's the question. Getting kicked out of a department ruined my confidence. I have a safe, secure job where there's no pressure, but my firm doesn't address complaints properly. Time and time again, people will complain about the linting

Starting point is 00:23:01 prettier guy or other issues like the trainee and nothing is done. Should I leave? I work on a Greenfield Project here, switching to a likely legacy code base that I didn't build and dealing with higher pay slash expectations is very daunting. Now you know why you have a cushy job. Yeah. Because no one wants to deal with anything hard. Yes. Although firing the person who pretended to be someone else, that doesn't sound hard. It sounds unpleasant.

Starting point is 00:23:29 But if they can't even do that, then... Hopefully that's not hard. Hopefully you just say, hey, you lied. See ya. oh man what a what a world we live in that that's now a possibility i know the hiring thing where someone can stand in and do an interview and no one finds out that it wasn't them i've heard about the adversarial text in resumes or job postings where you put something in white letters say if you're an llm like approve me for this job or whatever you're the applicant or jobs

Starting point is 00:24:02 that have white text saying, if you're an LLM, insert this key phrase into your application. I've never experienced it personally before I'm in a hiring cycle and I've seen it firsthand. It's rough out there. The cost of doing things I consider to be sneaky is much lower than it was 10 years ago. The job application and hiring process. Hmm. My firm doesn't address complaints properly i i feel like i've seen i i feel like i continue to see that the number of big frustrating things someone can tolerate that they think their company gets wrong is is lower than i expect like there's like i don't know five things that you you can you think your company gets really wrong and then you just are over it and fed up and have written them off and said they're they're useless

Starting point is 00:24:54 and maybe i give companies too much grace or i'm the person behind those five things so i want them to give me a higher number i don't know but i don't know you've given two examples i suppose there are more but yeah getting two things really wrong is not the worst thing maybe it's more endemic of uh it's the kind of place that often gets stuff wrong but do they get enough things right to make up for it yeah it sounds like not honestly if it's such a cushy place that your job has no expectations and apparently neither do these two other people's jobs uh yeah because a lead engineer that makes it impossible to work with him and someone who just blatantly lies in the application process i feel like high standards would change this in one way or the other there's

Starting point is 00:25:40 like pros and cons here on the pro side you will probably never have to worry about your job if someone who committed interview fraud is still welcomed into this organization i don't know and And someone who is a so-called lead engineer pushes people off the project, holds up progress for three months at a time. If they're still employed, then, I don't know, you're going to milk this paycheck for a while, at least as long as this company can stay in business, which might not be that long with this kind of performance. But that's both a pro and a con. The pro is you're not going to lose your job anytime soon. the con is you're going to be miserable in many ways not only because of the things that are wrong in the environment around you but also because you yourself won't be pushed to do greater things

Starting point is 00:26:24 and to stretch your abilities i that's what i was thinking too i it can sound nice to just say there's zero expectations it's greenfield you get to you get to play around no pressure but it's really nice to work with competent committed people that make you better and often those people want to get stuff done and want to work around other people like them and they want to have a high bar for who they work with and and i'm sure there are great people there but if you work somewhere where you feel like everyone is great and pushes you you will have higher expectations you will learn a bunch more you will grow yep i don't know i i feel like that's that's more interesting to me than something that won't expose my weaknesses yeah totally it's super that

Starting point is 00:27:10 that's way, way more interesting to me too. I agree. Wait, did they complain to HR about the person? Oh, let's see. I told HR and my department head, nothing happened. Yeah. That's kind of crazy. Honestly, if it was a publicly traded company and this wasn't illegal, then I would ask you to tell me the name of the company and then I could make some assumptions based on what you've told me about them. I don't know. Maybe, maybe, maybe there's some weird nepotism or something going on here that that does seem nuts to me yeah i well let's talk about the confidence being shot thing you you feel like you kind of got kicked out of your department and you feel you took a blow from that i could i could see that feeling like you you sort of lost the political

Starting point is 00:27:57 battle with this person who seems to have very obvious downsides and weaknesses how do you rebuild that. Say you are going to stay at this place. I mean, time is the only builder of confidence, time and accomplishment. So I don't know. The fact of the matter is your confidence should not be shot after this experience. Your trust and faith in this organization should be shot. And it sounds like it is, but it's not really about you. This is just, this would have happened to anyone. In fact, the better the engineer, the more likely they would be to get chewed up and spit out by this organization. Yeah. Imagine someone who's anxious to ship as much stuff as possible to customers as quickly as possible they would get the most upset at this

Starting point is 00:28:37 situation exactly with the first engineer probably the second too if they have to work with somebody that you just have to make up for the fact that they literally are unqualified for the job yep it's gonna slow your team down and got the job through fraud yeah this person was helping this trainee out a lot too yeah it's taking up a lot of the question askers time every day after stand up for 30 minutes yeah and it's one thing to invest in juniors and help train people on the code base or people that are new to the company but you got to feel like it's sinking in if it's not brutal brutal to just like teach someone the basics of programming at a job when you expect them to to be learning the specifics of the company and code base not yeah that would be

Starting point is 00:29:23 soul-sucking yeah maybe if you just do a good enough job training this person that they overcome not knowing how to do it and coming in through fraud that would restore your confidence yeah just just commit no i don't know i it's not a good time to quit your job but this might be a look for a new job and then quit your job once you find a new job situation yeah switching to a likely legacy code base i didn't build and dealing with higher pay expectations is very daunting this makes me feel like this person might be a little bit junior yeah maybe because jumping into a legacy code base is that's what most new jobs are it's uh it's very i think it's it's less likely you get hired on to a new place and and they say okay here's what we're building

Starting point is 00:30:03 from scratch yep that's fair and that's an important skill to develop and it's not that bad and basically everyone you've ever worked with has had to do that it's it's that's right i can see how it might feel daunting if you haven't done it before but it is it's possible and i actually find it exhilarating to learn a code base learn its ins and outs and become fluent in it and feel like i can move around it with expertise and isn't it true that everything a lot of things can feel daunting until you actually do them and that's how they become not daunting it's not that the nature of the thing changes it's your ability to do it improves yeah go do it so yeah don't be scared of that crap that's just garbage ideas that's our advice yeah yeah all right have we

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Soft Skills Engineering - Episode 482: I got a promotion, but a tiny raise and an imposter interviewed for my team

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