Ethan
08-11-2001, 03:11 PM
Recently my employer hired some consultants to do a salary survey. A representative from the consulting firm interviewed me about my job and he was very clueless -- to the point where I had to explain to him what SQL is.
I was not happy about this, so I went and talked to the person in our HR dept. who is managing the consultants. She seemed willing to do something to improve matters, and she said that I should make a list of companies that employ people to do what I do. That way, the consultants can include those companies in their survey even if they don't understand my job, and I might get a fair salary assessment.
The weird thing is, I don't know of any companies to give them. What I do is not particularly esoteric (develop J2EE-based Web application on Linux using MySQL databases), but this is the only place where I've worked doing that. I learned the basics of Java and Linux while at this job. Does anyone know of any companies (preferably in the SF Bay Area, but not necessarily) that hire programmers to use those particular tools?
Don't worry, I'm not trolling for job leads or anything. Any advice would be vastly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ethan
I was not happy about this, so I went and talked to the person in our HR dept. who is managing the consultants. She seemed willing to do something to improve matters, and she said that I should make a list of companies that employ people to do what I do. That way, the consultants can include those companies in their survey even if they don't understand my job, and I might get a fair salary assessment.
The weird thing is, I don't know of any companies to give them. What I do is not particularly esoteric (develop J2EE-based Web application on Linux using MySQL databases), but this is the only place where I've worked doing that. I learned the basics of Java and Linux while at this job. Does anyone know of any companies (preferably in the SF Bay Area, but not necessarily) that hire programmers to use those particular tools?
Don't worry, I'm not trolling for job leads or anything. Any advice would be vastly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ethan