Ask HN: Should I take this job?
I am an "application architect" /chief dev in my little company (20 staff). Been there 10 years
I just did an interview for a much bigger tech company (NASDAQ) listed. I did the interview for a role that might crop up next year, as I wanted to pitch myself as their "staff" or "senior staff" role, but they only have senior roles open currently
So after 1 tech screen, and 3 90 Minute long interviews, server side, front end and design.
They got back and said that the interview feedback was positive.
They said that a role has come up sooner than expected and do.titles matter much to.me, because they had this "senior" role. I said I could not do that because my experience and track record demonstrate that I lead and take ownership of projects end to end. That was agreed.
I take this one of 2 ways,
1. They only rated me as a senior
2. They wanted to get me in sooner because I did a good interview and i am full stack.
A couple of caveats, the new role is on the AWS side of the house, I come from a Microsoft Azure stack side. In my company I get to choose the tech stack for work, mostly Azure etc.. I have also just adopted Vue.js/Webpack into our front end over the past year which has been great.
Undoubtedly there will be alot more money with the new gig, but alot less autonomy, probably alot less creativity, so what would you do? And what ya think I should do?
New journey, less autonomy, more money, new type of work
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Stay put, more autonomy, less money, same type of work
Vs
Wait for another opportunity elsewhere So what would you do with the extra money? Just buy more stuff, or are you saving for financial independence/retire early? Because then it would make sense to prioritize earnings and go for the new job. Also, why have you been looking for a job in the first place? Was there a particular reason or circumstance? More money would help as I have 2 kids and my wife (ex dev) is a stay at home mom, which is by choice. I guess a change of scene, more people, new people, work on some AWS stuff, new line of business, SEO type stuff, Big data Amazon EMR, Groovy...
My only issue is I invested alot of time in learning all about Azure, and put alot into learning Vue/Webpack ES6, I love this stuff..