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Use Your Year-End Review to Reach for a Promotion

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Use Your Year-End Review to Reach for a Promotion

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When I landed my first job as a software engineer, I had a simple plan: Work hard and somebody would notice. Eventually a manager would tap me on the shoulder and hand me a promotion (probably with a nice little speech).

I switched jobs twice, kept my head down, read a stack of programming books, and sometimes pulled 12-hour days. I was never promoted. At my third job, out of frustration, I started interviewing at other companies and almost immediately got an offer for a senior engineer role.

So I went back to my job and quit. My team was blindsided. I liked my manager and the people I worked with, and they came back with a counteroffer. Then someone from HR asked me, “Why didn’t you just ask us?”

I took the counteroffer and stayed. Three jobs in, I finally got promoted, and all it took was asking (in the most dramatic way possible).

Year-end review discussions are a great time to push for a promotion. But at most companies, raises and promotions are largely settled before the formal review conversation happens. If the year-end review is the first time your manager hears you want a promotion, you’re usually too late.

Engineers tend to believe good work speaks for itself.



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