What are your guys thoughts on interviewing / receiving offers from other companies to help establish a better sense of "market value"?<p>Would you give a different answer if you were not actively looking vs looking?<p>What are some other ways at establishing "market value"? Having used Glassdoor.com, how accurate is this?
As long as you are up front with the people you are interviewing with, I don't see any harm. There's the rub though; who will want to waste their time to interview you if you have no intention of joining their company?<p>If you want more money you can talk to your manager but other then that, you just need to get another job. It sucks but that is reality.<p>The raise-by-counter-offer strategy rarely pays off. You may get your raise but only until they can find someone to replace you.