Can’t name but its a mumbai based big conglomerate

Product Manager

Imo, if you are not desperate to get out of your current org. stay put. You'll be able to crack a better role. But first negotiate hard.

Associate Product Manager

HR is is trying to lowball me into accepting an offer at my current compensation stating market conditions. I don’t have any other offers yet. What can be done here? 🥲

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Salary Negotiation

Salary Negotiation- Grapevine

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Have been interviewing for roles and the HRs are low balling like crazy even though they most definitely have the money, talking about non-startups listed companies as well. Makes me think if offer shopping or editing a current offer with a higher number and then shopping is the only way to go

HRs low balling?

Founder’s Office

The company I used to work for recently shut down and I just received my first offer from a sizeable unicorn. 

I am being massively low-balled (20% cut). And on top of it, it's an exploding offer. 

I have a couple of interviews lined up (they start after May 28th) but at the moment, this is the only offer I have. 

What should I do?

1. Hard negotiate? Leave the offer on the table if it doesn't work out. 

2. Soft negotiate. Get the offer. Interview with other companies and try to get a better offer before joining (feels wrong)

Things to consider:

- I have 10+ months runway
- Last cash comp was 24L at 2.5YOE

I'm leaning towards 1.

I'm being lowballed. What should I do?

Suffering from success. 24L base for <2.5 yoe was already high. And that’s the reason why u have so much runway. Good luck on whatever u decide.

Software Engineer

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Recruiter: Will call you asking basic details, without knowing anything about the job description and team involved. When you ask any questions, they are always coming back with information, sometimes they don't too

Actual project team: more often than not, in need and if they like you they will communicate very clearly that we want you. When asked about benefits etc general response or always HR will connect.


HR: comes during negotiation time, will not anything about the role, will come with sole purpose of saving some bucks on CTC. More often than not, they will be the reason a candidate withdraws from process, or negotiation doesn't work, even though the actual team might be okay with negotiation.

This is my experience, HR is giving such a vague offer which looks good on paper but on hand it's nothing in terms of growth and pay increase. Same old CTC vs gross salary shenanigans. When negotiating the HR thinks I'm not worth it and asks for proofs of every deduction from current employer.
This is such a stark difference from the Actual team who interviewed me and were very good and open.

HRs , Recruiters & Actual team are always on different tangents

Analyst

How to negotiate with an HR who committed me an higher number before starting the interviews

Now, all the interviews are done and feedback is extremely positive but now they are trying to low ball me. The numbers they are quoting me are way less than my expectations I told them in the beginning itself and HR also gave me rough numbers at that time which I agreed to

How do I negotiate when HR reverts on his initial numbers

Software Developer

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I have given interviews and cleared them.
I got a call from HR asking for payslips and another offer details.

They said they will get back with offer.

How to go about here? If they come with a lower offer than what i asked, how much liberty i have to ask further.
Does HR will come with 2-3 various levels of offer and then try to negotiate with me.

Any help or insights would be helpful in how HR comes with offer details.
My interviews were pretty good and i think they like me.

How does salary negotiation before offer work

Don't share payslips yet if possible. Do it after finalising your offer details. 
  
 What information have you shared? Current compensation? Expected range? Do you have any other offers in hand? 
  
 The game that follows now is that of leverage of information vs offer expiry timelines. 
  
 They will share an offer. You can call it "interesting" but don't share more details on if you like it or not - you need to "think more" before you can share your opinion. Say that you need to discuss it with your well-wishers and also evaluate compared to other opportunities. 
  
 Get back to them on email and call the offer "strong" (if it is really good) or "interesting" (for all other cases). Suggest some improvements to the offer that would make it more compelling for you. Don't guarantee that you will accept the offer if these things are provided (unless it's your last day till offer expiry). Keep negotiating with everyone that is interesting and keep dropping the non-interesting ones. 
  
 Also, don't call the negotiation discussions a "negotiation" - that word sounds negative. Call it "discussing offer details" or something. 
  
 FYI: All of these tips are from the highly popular negotiation blog posts by Haseeb. They've worked well for me.

Equity Research

Got an offer from an e-commerce company but they are low balling me based on current CTC.
The budget for the role is 20-30% more than what it being offered (I know this because I have friends on the same role and same exp)

How do I negotiate?
2YOE

Getting lowballed - How to negotiate?

Business Analyst

Hi all, I have got 2 offers. How should I ask the HR who gave me first offer to match or give better offer then what I have received recently? 
Basically I want first hr to match the second offer. 
Please help.

How to do salary negotiations

Hi all, I have got 2 offers. How should I ask the HR who gave me first offer to match or give better offer then what I have received recently? Basically I want first hr to match the second offer. Please help.

How to do salary negotiations?

The HR was downplaying on me on the availability of talent and recession story. They say we are frugal and we wont fire people.

Should i take cut from my current or ask for match or raise?

How do i evaluate/negotiations offer during such recession?

I was looking for my 2nd offer on top of an existing one & this HR, cross questioned me like why am I searching for another one and that it is not fair and all. 

I didn’t have much time so I simply rejected him saying it wont work between us because of his aggressive attitude and ended the phone call.

Doesn’t HRs take multiple interviews simultaneously? So what exactly gives them right to ask us. Plus the only way to get a decent hike these days is to negotiate via multiple offers. Why be such prude in first place and create this culture by offering peanuts. 

How would you have handled this case?

Have a HR started aggressively cross questioned your choice to bag multiple offers? How did you handle.

AI Engineer

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Hi all, 
I have received an offer from Accenture which is on the lower side on the market standard and less than what i was expecting. I know they can raise the offer but I don't know how to approach it correctly ,to ask them without offending or you know being rude or showing a negative side. They are giving excuses like my current salary and market and they can't raise it etc etc. I have one round of discussion with them and i told them I will let them know .

How to negotiate an offer

My current CTC is 8.1 Ipa and during interview rounds, I have asked for 15 LPA as that was the budget of the role. It's an MNC BANK. Not revealing the company. Now they are saying that only a 30% hike is possible because no one in the industry will give more than 30% of the current salary it seems. I asked what kind of logic is this as my skill sets are good and I have cleared all technical rounds. They say that's how it is. This is in hr discussion.

What to do in such a situation? How to ask?

My offer is based on my current salary but not skillset??!!!

Data Analyst

I was recently an intern at DE Shaw. I had troubles with my manager from the start, as he was very hands-off, and wasn't really available from the start.

In the end, I ended up with a PPO, However, the compensation offered seems to be lower by 10 lakhs (all in base salary, from what I know). I'm sure I did great work, and just ended up the lower comp because of my managers review.

Should I try negotiating for a higher offer? Would it work if I don't have any competing offers?

Offered lower compensation

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How many folks here 100% refuse to share last salary and are adant that HR state their budget. How do you guys do it and also has it ever happened that you needed up losing a great opportunity coz of this???

Refusing to divulge last salary

I have about 5 YOE and looking for a job change. While I received so many calls from startups for SSE backend roles. During initial discussions I often let the HR know that I am earning 28 lakhs as CTC and I ask for 40 lakhs CTC, they say that they will get back to me but they never do so. Am I doing something wrong? Am I asking for too much. Should I wait for the market to get back to normal?
PS: I definitely have the major set of skills they are expecting for the job role.

Salary that needs to be negotiated

When should one communicate to HR about receiving only half their salary due to market conditions in their current company during salary negotiations?

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In this year's appraisal cycle, I got a good performance rating but bad hike and no promotion 😔
Currently multiple projects are highly dependant on me, and it will be difficult for the company to find a good replacement (Subtle flex, but it's true), and due to this I feel like I'm underpaid at my current level.

Have you ever been in a similar situation? How did you negotiate a better salary? Should I look for a better offer outside and ask my current org if they can match it or resign? Because next appraisal/promotion will only happen a year later from now.

Please share your experience of negotiating better salary at current org by getting a better offer outside, how did it go and what was the outcome?

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