{"id":2892,"date":"2019-10-31T19:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2020-02-20T01:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T01:03:44","slug":"dodged-a-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/cs\/dodged-a-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodged a bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some years ago, I applied to an outsourcing company that provided some service to HP, I passed the interviews with HP and got an offer for little more than 2.15x what I was earning at the time.<\/p>\n

I hesitated a lot because:<\/p>\n

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  1. It was using a mix payroll(mostly bonus and just 1 minimum salary via payroll), which means I will get less money for my retirement( I could just put some voluntarily\u00a0 to avoid this but consider 2).<\/li>\n
  2. I wanted 2.5x what I was earning at the time and I knew if I moved then, I should wait before moving to another job for at least 2 years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I decided to pass on the offer because of those 2 reasons, the tech recruiter wasn’t to happy about that but hey that’s business.<\/p>\n

    It all turn out for the best for me, 1 week after that, HP broke into HP inc and enterprise, so I would have been fired pretty soon.<\/p>\n

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    Some years ago, I applied to an outsourcing company that provided some service to HP, I passed the interviews with HP and got an offer for little more than 2.15x what I was earning at the time. I hesitated a lot because: It was using a mix payroll(mostly bonus and just 1 minimum salary via … Continue reading Dodged a bullet<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fernandocc17.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}