In this hypothetical, if a “dying” company offered you good WLB, a 30%+ TC increase and a promotion from your current role at another company would you take it? Not trying to throw shade, but the company that prompted this thought is Dropbox. I think it’s a great company, that offers good perks and full remote (which I’m looking for), but the company’s future isn’t clear to me. #engineering #software #swe
Dropbox is okay. Thought you are talking about Yahoo.
Thats a dead company😂.
Higher role and said TC increase is a no Brainer
I understand what you say my mate. Myself came out from such a company. As said by limkedin you never know who is dying its just ur feeling but then while working you will always feel little jittery and not that motivated. And then keep trying to look out once more thinking you are jumping a sinking ship only that the ship never fully sinks. Some firms are happy cruising and making constant profits and maintaining minimal growth. Wlb of course is excellent at such places. Rest and vest is not just for employees some companies are infact coasting and continue to coast for a long while and then either get acquired or die off but very rarely might pivot and go into hypergrowth. Take Zoom for example, they were just coasting trying to be the tool for internal communication and events in enterprise and coasting. Covid was a goddend and then they accelerated but now more or less that growth is done. Its back to just maintaining existing business, small incremental improvements and pursuing sales.
Honestly, Dropbox is a very good company. Great perks, benefits, pay, culture, wlb and there are expanding in multiple domains. See the stock price this year
Stock is still soundly below IPO price and just over half its 2018 ATH.
I’m about to start at Uber, and this thought has definitely crossed my mind lol. I think it’s worth it for the title bump alone.
I did it for the big bump. Worked 2-3 hours a day and leetcode rest of the time Said fu in a year or so. Never looked back. Forgotten half the people and the work I was doing
Cash rules everything
Some live for the bill some kill for the bill eh. Tonight Akon Weezy on the bill eh. So imma tell you like Wu told me Cash rules everything around me Dollar dollar bill y’all
I live for the 💵
I did. It turned out alright.
Same thought for me with VMware, title and TC bump but company has a stagnant stock and not a great outlook. Would you still do it blind community?
Do it and take your title with you if you decide to jump
Do you think going from AWS to VMware would make it hard to make it to a FAANG/T1 company later?
Yes. And you never know which company is actually dying