Would I be crazy to give up chill life and WLB for a higher scope and authority? (Snap vs FB)
Life at my current company is pretty chill, great WLB, friendly team, but still pretty deep technical problems in which I'm learning a lot. Would I be crazy to throw all of this away for the sake of increased scope?
On the other hand, one of my friends whom I trust very much told me about an opportunity on his team at FB and they would be willing to consider me for an E6 level which would likely match my current compensation. This is the ONE thing that I am lacking in my current position, which is pretty much lack of leadership opportunity, take forever to get promo, etc. Some of it ego, but some of it is also genuine desire to upgrade my level and take things to the next step. I genuinely am interested in contributing more to the holistic product/business side of an engineering team but there's it seems zero opportunity for that at my company.
Only thing, which friend is VERY honest and transparent with me about, is that team is extremely hardworking and WLB is pretty much like 60-70 hours per week. He is serious that the hours are stressful to him.
My personal thinking is that E6 is really hard to come by with my current YOE, and also if I can secure the experience and add it to resume, I'm pretty much able to stabilize this as part of my experience. Based on my current level, this would be equivalent to one promotion or even a double promotion for me.
YOE: 4 *
TC: 700K
* (Technically, 6 YOE, but it's 2 years at unprestigious company, 4 years at current and joined as "new grad" equivalent)
#snap #snapchat #wlb #culture #chill
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