u/codecat123 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
ah yea, i found Eric to be awesome b/c he was very helpful when it came to helping me negotiate an offer when i was in final stages of landing my first role out of CS, and was fielding offers from two companies. specifically, he helped me in negotiating a higher base salary, alon
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Thanks for sharing more details! Yeah that's what I've heard from the people in the "Eric is awesome camp". What I've found though is that while his advice is solid, he's overconfident in his understanding of the market. He said 'I'm friends with the CTO of Disney so I know the better than anyone on Reddit or TikTok', and 'I've done 4 startups and 3 of them were acquired' and like I said, public documentation raises a lot of questions about that.
But I guess my question is, while he has been helpful, how do you know he's given you good advice and how do you know you wouldn't be able to be more successful with other advice?
A senior engineeeing manager, M7, at FAANG, with a trajectory of being promoted every year would be making about $800K to $1M a year. It's analogous to E7 - [https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-engineer/levels/e7](https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-engineer/levels/e7)
So if his advice got you more what you perceived as huge value, how do you know it was the best advice?