© Zsolt Nagy  2019
Z. NagySoft Skills to Advance Your Developer Careerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5092-1_6

6. Negotiating Raises and Promotions

Get Paid What You Deserve
Zsolt Nagy1 
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Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 

This chapter gives you a framework about negotiating raises and promotions. We software developers often reach a point where we have to assert ourselves in order to get what we really want. This happens from time to time even if our managers back our progress up and have good intentions. Sometimes they are not aware of our progress.

Imagine that you are in charge of a department of 20 people. Would you be able to track everyone’s progress? If you are one person out of 20, your future is mostly in your own hands.

A lot of developers think ...

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