Latest / The Internal Move Podcast with Fexingo: Lateral Roles, Internal Transfers, and Staying at Your Company
The Invisible Tax of Internal Mobility
Most internal transfers fail not because of bad management, but because of the 'shadow compensation' trap. In this episode, we look at how companies systematically undervalue lateral moves by freezing salary bands, stripping away unvested equity, and ignoring the hidden cost of lost seniority. We break down a specific case from a mid-size fintech where an engineer transferred laterally to a high-growth product team, only to see her total compensation package drop by eighteen percent despite the role change being purely lateral in scope. Lucas and Luna discuss why HR policies often…
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