Initially printed on April 12, 2016.
Negotiation is a vital ability for software program engineers. The wage you negotiate firstly of your job could possibly be a distinction of tens of hundreds of {dollars} over the course of an engineer’s profession, however intimidating recruiters and exploding affords scare many engineers from negotiating in any respect.
Right now, Haseeb Qureshi returns to the present to debate his epic story of wage negotiation. On a earlier episode, Haseeb mentioned leaving his profession as a poker participant to affix a coding boot camp and begin down the trail of a software program engineer.
On this episode and his current weblog submit, Haseeb describes his method to the job search and wage negotiation course of, which ultimately landed him at Airbnb with a $250,000 annual wage–after a couple of yr of studying to code.
