Initially printed on April 12, 2016.
Negotiation is a vital talent for software program engineers. The wage you negotiate originally of your job might 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.
At the moment, 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 hitch 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 strategy to the job search and wage negotiation course of, which finally landed him at Airbnb with a $250,000 annual wage–after a few yr of studying to code.