My current CTC is 7.7 with around 2+ YOE. Received an offer with a sort of startup owned by a private equity that is giving a 20% hike + bonus not included in the CTC. My current role sucks, there's not any coding involved, it's mostly just using a third party software to make small changes here & there and I don't think it will help me in the future, though the work culture and perks are really good (hybrid mode lots of holidays barely 4-5 hours of work). The new role will include coding which is what I want to do and from the discussion I had with the hiring team it will be a challenging role compared to my current.
However, this will be my 3rd company and I'm not sure how recruiters will look at it since I am currently working in legacy tech and want to switch to a different stack in the future and I will probably have to stay at least a year here. The new company also mentioned that they use tracking software only while you WFH though you can do WFO too which is a red flag for me.
I'm really confused. The hike isn't much but the extra money will help but the lack of the freedom while WFH and the long hours are making me think and the fact that I would have to stay atleast a year in this role to not be seen as a serial hopper to recruiters when I want to switch tech stack. But then again I don't see any future growth in my current org even with all its perks and it just feels like im rotting away my early 20s not doing any "meaningful work" or gaining any skills.
These are part of ups and downs in career. Given how market is right now, take up that job and stay in there till mid 2025.l if you want stability. If you have a lot of hunger, zeal and patience to deal with raw market and want competetive work, give interviews in companies where there is a hardcore engineering with the ability to suck it up and churn 12+ hours not for WLB but for understanding tech and overall nature of work. Decision is yours! Cheers!
Thank you. A part of me wants to take that job. My career so far has been sort of secluded, worked remotely in the first job + no real work in the second. Maybe this might be the sort of job where you get an idea of what type of work or job you want to do in your career. Also what do you think of the tracking part? Seems like a really big red flag for me.
Suck it up If you are not able to get any other offers in the current market. Dont think too much. Do meaningful for 9hrs which they are gonna track.
My previous company is matching my new offer of about 75% increase. So what should I do should I stay at my previous company or move to new company
Old company - pros - product based, good coworkers and decent boss Cons- ass hr and fou...
Stay in the same one. Take the hike. Then apply again for others one in 2 months. There is no loyalty game here.
Got an offer from LTI as Specialist Software Engineer. I am getting arnd 40% hike on my basic.
The issue is I am in a stable company with decent WLB and avg hikes are similar to inflation levels.
Have heard LTI has a bad hike culture...
Hello people, I graduated last year and joined a fast-paced startup back in july as an SDE (2023 grad). So many things have changed so far within the company. Company has closed good series B funding. The top level management has changed...
