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Does anyone in the UK think this would work here?

How can one develop from a business analyst to a higher paying managing role? Given that you dont want to code yourself

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29 yo chronically unemployed and furry cement encasement prn addicted me living on 3 figures a month in rural France: ah yes, how are we doing my fellow Californian tech workers?

Lots of raving comments here. And I agree the advice in generally sound. But the most important graphic was the 1st one he showed of how many times he has climbed. It will take many iterations of attempting negotiations to get good at it. Dodging # questions is easier said than done and discovery requires experience and skill. That being said. You should absolutely make an attempt!

The music isn’t loud enough I can still barely hear your voice

LinkedIn limits you to 5 connection messages a month and I believe 30 inmails a month with LinkedIn premium? Do you recommend paying for LinkedIn premium and just being mindful of who you reach out to?

I would love to see a video breaking these down more in regards to things like: what these positions day to day is like, what education/career path should be taken to get into the position, what kinds of companies utilize these positions, or where to look to get hired into one of these positions.

It is really stressful to look at ebtry python jobs you should know beside asynchronous python with various frameworks beside it there is elasticsearch, reddis, kubernetes, docker . And they demand much more detail for a beginner level

Thank you for this gold! In Counter Offer #1, how do you leave it open? What if they say, look we don’t want to keep guessing your expectations and going back and forth - which seems like a reasonable frustration. How do you handle this?

Thank you for the video! What are your thoughts on AI replacing the folowing positions?cloud Data scientist, analyst, engineers and similar positions in cloud. I want to get into one of this jobs, with no IT experience. Thank you

so basically you are a corporate slave then

I think its important to re-iterate you have to be in a population of people that can take the risk of negotiating. I thought the advice is great for people that dont depend heavily on paying rent off. Of course if youre dedicated to spending your life in CS/tech, you will eventually get a role with negotiations. But some people prefer an initially conservative approach until they can break through initially. For instance, I already worked my first job in tech, but my second job only came recently after a year of job gap. Arguably a salary raise would make sense for the time without a job, but at the same time i cant risk savings over a few grand of salary increase.

I may have struck gold by finding your channel. I'm currently applying for finance positions, but most of the tips in your videos can still apply. I will definitely update this comment if your videos help me land something!

This guy watches too much animes.

Welp... watching this was the most productive 45 min of my life! Your advice that our stretch goal "may not even be high enough" was spot on. I actually exceeded my stretch early by keeping my mouth shut, and being respectful (but slightly apprehensive) whenever they put out a number. That made my counter easy too because I could ask for a smaller (5-10%) increase and show sincere gratitude to get it. Felt very win-win. I do feel like this advice is more geared toward senior/staff and higher roles, and is sorta predicated on nailing the interview.

Great video!

Companies need to give people 1 month of notice so employees have time to apply for a new job. Last minute notice or no notice is unfair for those who have kept the company running.

Interesting point about using other offers as the last lever for the top offer. Is there some more background to that?

I entered the job market in the early 2000’s, took me ages to break into IT and I was so desperate I would’ve made coffee for money. Now at 44, with a great career and 10 years working in FAANG I’ve been laid off. There is so much greed in big tech right now where billions are thrown at AI speculation and senior leadership have net worth’s to cover them for multiple lifetimes. Employees are disposable and undervalued.

love the content, very well structured and informative. appreciate it.

Great content in this video and the others, thank you! Who would you advise to talk to for someone that has a desire to move up a level that would possibly take them out of their current area? I have doing data engineering/analytics engineering work for many years and often fill part of the decision makers role which is bad for me and the executive. It would be much better to be the one directing and not actually doing the work, but I would like to find out all the options possible. Any thoughts on where to turn first?

Those numbers are total compensation correct? That would put the base in a more restricted range such as low-mid six figures.

Thanks for making this Colin. I’ve been a military pilot for 15 years and going into the last round interview for my first civilian job. Whilst there are differences between our industries, you’ve given me some tactics and food for thought. Thanks. (Too bad aviation compensation is nowhere near tech…)

WTF is deep tech?

Thank you. I find this video very information dense and helpful. I recently walked away from an offer which, looking in hind sight with your video, was poorly negotiated on my part. I think my key mistake was being way too transparent and divulging too much information too early. Specifically I told the recruiter my bottom line i.e. what's the minimum offer (+X% of my current comp) I'd consider an acceptable offer. And guess what, the offer came back almost exactly that amount. So even after counter offers and negotiating upwards with several back and forths, I ended up in a place where I still felt I was being undervalued and I would lose on opportunity cost and work life balance for an amount that was not convincing, so I ended up walking away. Unfortunately I felt the recruiter and HM had the impression that I was never winnable from how I walked away and they were both unpleasantly surprised I rejected their adjusted offer downright. Looking back, I did not evaluate my actual expectations accurately. I could see a world where we arrive at the final offer via a different route and I would have taken it, but I could also see myself getting a much better offer and be happy with that.

Well, your video confirms my suspicion. I did an A/B testing, basically sending two different types of CV: one very technical, data driven, but without education. The second one was an engineering "classic" two pager with education listed. For years 2017 - 2021, the second one was highly successful with ATS'es / humans. Starting 2021, ONLY the first one lands me jobs. What counts now is pure provable skillset AND soft skills that are (in my personal opinion) borderline sociopath - you just have to use all mental advantages over the initial recruiter (who often tells lies about the offer) and verify the truth on a technical interview. Now, if you overdose the first stage - you won't be invited for the next one. If you go too hard on tech interview, manager may see you as his potential replacement and you fail. If you try to become a politician, having a BS for every occasion - it's highly effective. Problem is, you will become somebody else after six months of sending CVs and selling yourself. So if you're ever wondered why engineers say "I'm dead inside", that's it.

What is deep tech?

How applicable is this to other industries? For example, engineering in manufacturing

Can you estimate the year when the tech job market will improve by previous data? Just tell approx value

Can you estimate the year when the job market will improve by previous data? Just tell approx value

Are you saying $2 million is the sum total of the offers you received in that year, or you received a single offer for $2 million?

As someone who works blue collar, this entire video is nauseating. People live like this? You guys live life debating your value as an individual monetarily.

Good points. Also the book never split the difference is a pretty good add on to this advise.

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..so.. you are a grifter who doesn't worth or deserve such salary. good. now i know why a LOT of ppl that are in the IT doesn't have a good salary.

guy is obviously a fraud. Cant find he is a "senior director" of what. Everyone can join some no name lame companies and get titles.

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This is such a helpful video. I wish I had seen this before getting my job with Amazon or moving on to a different company. Question - Does this work when you get a promotion within the same company? Do you ever negotiate with your annual reviews or just take the compensation that you are offered.

Wow! It’s been only 10 minutes through and I’ve already couple of insights I’m grateful for enough to like, comment and subscribe. Thank you!

1:20 Literally 1 person went on and did really great.... that is hardly the endorsement it might seem.

Man, this video brings up so many strange emotions within me as a 28 yr old who just quit my job, looking to change industries completely starting at the bottom of the IT world, never made more than $60k a year, but also made more than my parents ever have. Just seeing these numbers thrown around feels so weird. It's aspirational/exciting/daunting/demoralizing/interesting all together. It's a great video all around. I hope one day it will be helpful for me

I watched your other video on top jobs in tech and data scientists were at $166k if I understood your chart correctly. Im in data at low six figures right now. I’m looking online and the jobs appear to be in the 65k-130k range and the higher end is as a senior data scientist. What can I do to get to where you are or close to it? Do you have resources? Recruiters? I feel lost as to what skills/certificates/other forms of validation I should actually spend time on that convert reliably to income. Then, who is even offering these high salaries? Is it just FAANG? How much are people faking it till they make it? My perception is that people in these jobs could run circles around me based on job requirements for even 80k jobs. I feel completely out of the game and it makes me sad and frustrated. It’s like there’s something I totally missed and I don’t know how/where to get it and what reality is vs my self-doubt.

HR: What projects have you worked lately? Colin: I've read books on salary negotiation

HR: What skill are you good at? Colin: I am a pro in salary negotiation HR: What skill are you bad at? Colin: Everything else

I think someone at your level and experience can answer my question. I can't ask on blind so I'll ask here. What worries me is that how so many people with 10-15 YOE are also laid off. As a new grad I want to ask is tech even worth it? Everyone seems to be worried about the stability doesn't matter what their experience is.

Selling yourself as if you were an appliance.

Really interesting video, despite not even being remotely relevant to my (comparatively) miniscule income / career i'm currently in

That intro tease honestly pissed me off. I'm out. Only snakes do things like that.

What's your take on smaller job markets like Poland? It seems like there are much fewer opportunities to negotiate above market due to less venture money or FAANG competing for talent