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pay parity and how often do you folks prepare for interviews and switch jobs? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/experienced_devs

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In my short career I've noticed that employers are notorious for underpaying you to the point that people with 3-4 years of experience are getting paid the same as freshers. The management always has an excuse to not increase pay or increase it very minimally. The best way to increase pay has been to keep moving every 2-3 years from one company to the next if switching means at least 1.5x or 2x the current salary.

This means major interview prep requiring solving leetcode style questions, solving system design questions, then some more. I just wanted to how often do you prepare? Are you always interview ready or start prepping a few months before switching jobs?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. That sounds so much simpler and better. I'm in India and it's typically 4 or 5 interview rounds here of which there's an online test, a leetcode round, an actual coding round, a system design and a hiring manager round. Almost every company here if you exclude service based shops have copied the interview process from big tech minus the big tech pay.

Employers here are notorious for underpaying people and this is why most pay increases only happen while switching. It's insane. But the number of people/developers here is so much that you've little bargaining power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I still have 2 or 3 interviews but it’s mostly : one technical interview, one with a manager to see if you could work with others, and one with HR to check if you’re not insane.