Then it goes down. Your merit increase is a joke. You are being paid below market, and trying to argue your case is useless. You can’t park at the office. You have mandatory work from home days because they’ve hired too many people and have no place to put them. Managers miss 1:1s and career advancement is minimal. You can take only so much lip service about how valuable you are, how they have big plans, etc. Then you leave, because your manager’s telling you are worth more, and then, they treat you like scorched earth. Not great.