What would you do in this situation?

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The initial message was deleted from this topic on 12 March 2016 at 17:27

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pbg2770 said:

Personally, that kind of uplift wouldn't make the move worthwhile. You and they have to price in the risk of moving to a new environment.

Any other incentives? Share scheme? Equity?

No.

I met CEO this morning and discussed about my concerns. He showed me the road map of new development and assured me that my focus will be on new development and other developers will carry on fixing bugs in old legacy application.
I have tried to negotiate the salary but he is willing to increase the holiday allowance from 20 to 25 and will do the salary review next year.

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Ynox said:

That's pretty crap for a tech role! All bar one role I've had have been 25+ days (current one is 27). Don't use a promise of a salary review as part of your decision either - if it happens, great, but these things tend to not happen quite often.

As for legacy stuff - it's not great, but it's not bad. I do enough legacy coding in my day to day role - e.g. EJB 2 stuff. Equally I also work on more modern platforms. Both bring their own challenges and we are slowly improving the legacy platform (hopefully it'll be going eventually - we'll see!).

Full flexible working like you say - e.g. 11am starts have got to be worth more than £6k a year really. I've got a degree of flexibility - e.g. I'm working from home today, but if I said I'd start at 11 people would rightly so tell me to ps off!

Yes you are right about salary review; it has become a fashion now to say 'we will review your salary next year' but doesn't happen all the time.

Plus points so far;

- Closer to home
- Different job title (may be just job title, my current job title is senior .net developer but i do mentor junior developers time to time)
- Opportunity to work with more experience people (company has hired very experience development manager and i have also spoken to him). His plans are to use all the stuff we don't use here like SOLID development principles, continues integration, unit testing and etc.
- There might be some flexibility in working hours.
- I have spoken to few people who left the company and so far I had a positive feedback from all of them.
- I have clearly mentioned to CEO that I don’t want to spend much time on legacy application and he is happy with it.

Negative points;

- Recently two guys left the company one lead developer and other one was Development Manager. Lead developer is leaving because he wants to work in new stuff (.ner , mvc) but since the new development manager has taken over company has changed their strategy and they want to migrate current application.
- Really small company, in three rooms. Never worked for small company before so don’t know how it would be. 4 people sitting around one table.

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TurricanII said:

Have you asked for a pay rise/appraisal at the current job, rather than waiting for them to approach you? Many companies ignore such things. If you like everything else about the job then give them a chance to bump up the pay.

There is no appraisal system here. His PA recently left the company after working 5 yrs and she also asked for pay raise but didn't get it. Now she works for one of the big 5 tech companies in the world on better salary.

Edited by djones123 on Saturday 21st November 20:29

Edited by djones123 on Saturday 21st November 20:30

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DragsterRR said:

Define old?

asp classic

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TurricanII said:

Are you going to be harder to replace then the PA?

Definitely worth asking for pay rise and then you know where you stand.

I don't think its harder to find my replacement as there are many developers in the market.