I have been one of the lucky ones to have made a switch to a new company just before the layoff season began. I had multiple offers at the time, but ultimately chose one where I was getting to build something from scratch in a large organization at my current designation and was also getting a good hike (20%). The offers I dropped had a better title with a team to manage. However, the options were to either take a pay cut to join a Series A company or a large organization with a known bad work culture.
Off late, I'm feeling a little frustrated with the new job. I feel like I won't get chance to move to a better title for atleast a year. Since the recession period has kicked in, the new team needs to show results in order to get a promotion and the targets are quite steep for that.
There is some learning that I have while building this product and that is definitely a motivation, but also feel I'm missed out an opportunity to move to next level in career.
On one hand, I feel like I should have taken the pay cut to join the series A startup. On the other hand, I also feel that I should be happy that I'm getting comfortably more pay at a time where folks are having poor appraisals, pay cuts or even getting laid off.
Given a choice between title and money what would you choose?
If u are early in your career, don't go with the title but rather ask the HR and other team members what are the roles and responsibilities. In product management, primarily there are 2 roles, pure IC, IC+ people manager . Don't go too much by title as sometimes bigger titles can become a burden itself if u are not comfortable in that role.
What should I am for?
A well named startup or company at slightly lower pay?
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