CSCareerQuestions

950 readers

1 users here now

A community to ask questions about the tech industry!

Rules/Guidelines

Follow the programming.dev site rules
Please only post questions here, not articles to avoid the discussion being about the article instead of the question

Related Communities

[email protected] - a general programming community
[email protected] - general question community
[email protected] - for questions targeted towards experienced developers

Credits

Icon base by Skoll under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

ericjmorey

odium

Should I take the offer? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/cs_career_questions

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I just graduated with a B.S. in CS in May 2023. I've been working at a big non tech company in a data engineering type of role with AWS and Terraform. My team's culture, team members, and PTO hours are great. The work is easy, but I also don't learn much from it.

I've only been at the job for three months, but I was just headhunted by a recruiter for a tech company similar to iRobot ( they don't sell robot vacuums, but they sell hardware with similar levels of tech behind it and are in the same stage of growth and have also been recently bought out by a magma company). They are offering about 25% higher base than my current total comp. Both jobs are remote btw.

However, I am wary of the notorious culture of the magma company that bought it and how often that new parent company fires its devs. I am also wary of how a 3 month job would look like on my resume.

Edit: yes, this is in the US

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

but I know that SWEs at the parent company that bought it do regularly end up working in the evenings and weekends to meet deadlines.

If this is a cultural expectation, then it's safe to assume you will be expected to sacrifice your nights and weekends as well. If that's a dealbreaker for you, walk away. Personally, I refuse to work someplace that doesn't encourage a good work life balance. I spent a lot of years giving up my nights and weekends. Whatever benefits I got from it, and they were negligible at best, were not worth the cost.