Senior/Staff Firmware engineer (working for a defense contractor in Boston area for almost 20y where his total comp was $140k ($120k base + $20k benefits). CMU graduate, and well-established in his current role. He had no exposure to technical interviewing, and had never attempted to job search. We worked together for 4 months. In the first four months, we materialized an Amazon T5 offer, with first year TC $386k ($180k base, $175k sign on, 125 shares vested at 5/15/40/40. He was unwilling to relocate, so we continued and he was able to get a Google offer (via my contact's referral) based in Cambridge. His initial Google offer was low and we were able to negotiate to match the Amazon offer even though the Amazon offer required relocation to the Bay Area. Additionally, he was past the onsite at Meta but did not want to follow through. Also, he expressly did not want greater responsibility than Senior Engineer (T5) because of family duties and high involvement in college football referree'ing.

VP of Quality & Data engineering at a Series B seattle-based startup where she had been promoted from Data Analyst up to VP overseeing 5 teams over 7 years. She felt underpaid (and no longer believed in the leadership. We worked at first for a brief mock interview for a Meta onsite that did not advance. Six months later, we engaged for a full job search. I was able to connect her with a contact at Amazon where she joined as L7 ($220k base, Y1 Signing $261k, Y2 Signing $195k, Equity $540k (5/15/40/40) - Y1TC $508k). We did a lot of work on take-home editing and refining stories over about 5 months. She was laid-off at the 6mo mark and felt very discouraged. She didn't believe she would have another chance to land as an eng manager because she lacked a formal background in engineering. We were able to land another Eng Management role at Bayer - mostly a lot of work on stories to represent the significant scope of work within 6m at Amazon. She just got promoted this past summer after surviving a layoff in Jan this year.

Bioinformatics engineer laid off during maternity leave. We engaged for Negotiation coaching for about 3 weeks when she was  at late interviewing stages with Tempus and Natera. I helped her to navigate a level-up by leveraging existing internal connections to advocate on her behalf. She became a peer to the Hiring Manager based on very strategic conversations with the skip level. Her offer was expected to be $212k TC and we got to $253k TC. Obviously, not as competitive as Software Engineering but percentage-wise a great outcome. She also had a delicate situation with regards to visa transfer and we were able to make sure Natera was ready to help her.

Staff ML Engineer who was a negotiation client (via Rora) who was L7 at Microsoft and had an  L6 offer incoming from Google. He had an OpenAI onsite on the horizon, and his goal was to be able to delay Google's offer deadline until he had completed the rounds with OpenAI. We didn't actually materialize a huge increase on the Google offer (~+$20k) but he had a great experience working with me and we succeeded in getting him time to complete the onsite and hear back (a "no") while appealing to the Hiring Committee at Google. This was also right around the entire Sam Altman upheaval and uncertainty around OpenAI which kept things exciting! I dont' have the exact numbers anymore but I believe his Google offer was roughly $750k TC, and we were pitching OpenAI's $900k comp as the target.

Seasoned Staff+ fullstack JS/Node software engineer who had worked at several FAANG companies (Apple, Mozilla) over a decade ago, and went in the direction of pursuing startups founded by people who had been early at Google/Apple in his two most recent roles. Both companies didn't pan out. He landed as a founding engineer at another startup after 4 mo of searching. Unfortunately that startup also failed and we had to continue for another 3 months and finally landed on another technical leadership role at a London-based startup establishing a US presence. Compensation was not particularly competitive. This client had a lot of work to do in reshaping his personal narrative and eliminating a lot of negativity. I was proud of being able to materialize a number of referrals for him and get him interviews, even if they often ended for behavioral reasons (as far as I can assess).

Staff+ ML Engineer who had previously had an offer from NVIDIA for an IC role but turned it down. She had since become a Director of ML at a finance company and was nearing final rounds with NVIDIA for an eng management role 4 years later. We engaged for negotiation coaching via Rora around Feb 2024. She had never had any success or confidence asking for more. Her initial offer from NVidia was Y1 TC $505k. We were able to bump Y1 TC to $711k, and Y2 from $455k to $585k.  
(I think I mis-quoted you in an early chat - I said TC $700k, and now looking more closely they had $300k base, $30k signon and $700k equity for TC $505. I remembered the equity amount as TC, so I was way off). We did a lot of role play for each of the conversations and the recruiter seemed convinced she had an offer from Meta (we didn't correct her).