Ask HN: Should I take this job?
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
Vs
Stay put, more autonomy, less money, same type of work
Vs
Wait for another opportunity elsewhere