Signing bonus: IT contract-signing bonuses in the world-IT information
James Carr explained how some tech companies have used signing bonuses to trap the developer into the work, and why read rules on the contract is very important.
Recently, I have lunch with a few friends, two of whom worked for a Fortune 500 company. These two guys are talking about negative information on their company, I asked the obvious question: "why don't you resign? "Because in my opinion, now is definitely a market for software engineers. Just saying, I know that at least more than 10 companies, amounted to two the number of empty positions, are desperately hiring. Though I know this is a bit anecdotal feeling, but my inbox every day recruiters received lots and lots of messages, they asked me if I was interested in jobs, almost begged me to forward them any sounds good to me and the right person's resume. Since jobs are so vigorous impulse, why stand employers bad behavior?
Answer is very interesting. One of the guys gave a common excuse, he believes is the essence of their employer is in fact unique paid opportunity , even if their employer is bad, while the other tells me some things that I was surprised. When he entered the company, he received a signing bonus of $ 10000. He was pleased to use the money to buy a lot of things to improve family environment, but it's not free--it is some additional terms. Specific details I know do not know, but if I hear anything like that, so, If an employee on termination of employment contract with the employer for two years, then it must refund the money (even including the original tax paid $ 10000). Basically comes down to is that he must pay $ 10000 resignation costs, even if they don't use the money, they still need to pay to pay taxes in order to resign.
What!?
I have often heard that signing bonus, and many companies even offer some pretty sweet stock option to employees for the future, but there will be restrictions (for example, they take three years to fully unlock the transfer and sale), but this is the first time I've heard that if an employee has not worked for two years would have to return it for a full signing bonus. Because we need to pay for a lot of things, from mortgage loans to spend the cost of child care, to raise this sum of money is not a small task, and may even be impossible. As my friend there, he can't get rid of him in the next year that he did not like the employer, because he has no choice, unless he is willing to loan to the signing bonus. That's not signing bonus ... ... Is your life away .
When you compare the potential for work, measuring point is to understand that any signing bonus like this, that's a sign--bonuses. Do not provide signing bonuses to select based on their work. Stock options are nice, but don't accept them instead of the market value of your ability . If you select any of your company with a one-time signing bonus, then be sure to read the fine print of the additional terms . If it you must return on the constraints and let them know you don't want to work as indentured servitude. There is many software engineering jobs are out there, there are many, many are not absurd, punitive additional terms.
签约奖金：IT世界的卖身契 - 签约奖金 - IT资讯
James Carr向我们解释了一些高科技公司是如何使用签约奖金来诱捕开发人员进入工作，以及为什么阅读合同上的细则很重要。
最近我跟几个朋友一起吃午饭，其中两人就职于同一家世界500强企业。这两个家伙正在讨论关于他们公司的负面情况，我问了一个显而易见的问题：“那么为什么你们不辞职呢？”因为在我看来，现在绝对是一个软件工程师的市场。随便说说，我就知道至少十几家公司，共计两位数的空职位，正在急切招人。虽然我知道这有点轶闻的感觉，但我的收件箱的确每天都能收到招聘人员大量大量的邮件，他们不但问我是否对招聘职位感兴趣，还几乎乞求我转发他们任何我觉得不错和合适的人的简历。既然就业机会是如此的蓬勃迸发，为什么还要忍受雇主蹩脚的行为？
答案很有趣。其中一个家伙给出了一个常见借口，其实本质是他相信他们的雇主是唯一的高薪机会，尽管雇主很糟糕，而另一个人则告诉我了一些着实令我诧异的事情。在他进公司的时候，他得到了$ 10000的签约奖金。他很高兴地用这些钱买了一堆改善家庭环境的东西，但这不是免费的——它有一些附加条款。可能具体细节上面我知道得不清楚，但是如果是我听到的那样的话，那么是这样的，如果员工在两年内终止与用人单位的雇佣合同，那么就必须全额退还这些钱（甚至包括原来$ 10000支付的税金）。基本上可以归结为是他必须支付$ 10000的辞职费用，即使他们没有用这些钱，他们也依然需要多支付缴纳的税额才能辞职。
什么！？
我时常有听说签约奖金，并且很多公司甚至会提供一些非常甜蜜的股票期权来给未来的员工，但是会有限制条件（例如，它们需要三年时间才能完全解锁转让和出售），但这是我第一次听说如果员工没有工作满两年就得返回全额签约奖金。由于我们需要支付的东西很多，从按揭贷款到车辆支出再到托儿费用，一下子要筹到这笔钱不是个小任务，甚至可能是不可能的。正如我的朋友那里，他在接下来一年都无法摆脱他那个他不喜欢的雇主，因为他没有选择，除非他愿意贷款来还这笔签约奖金。那不是签约奖金……是卖身契。
当你比较潜在的工作时，衡量的要点是要明白，任何签约奖金都是这样的，那就是一种关于签约的——奖金而已。千万不要基于他们提供的签约奖金来挑选工作。股票期权是很赞，但是不要接受它们代替你的能力的市场价值。如果在你的选择中任何一家公司都配有一次性的签约奖金，那么务必要阅读那些小字的附加条款。如果它有关于你必须还回去的约束条件，那就让他们知道你不愿意作为契约奴役而工作。有许许多多的软件工程职位正空在那里，还有很多很多是没有这样荒谬的，惩罚性的附加条款的。