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> but I'm not 100% ready to leave yet. You're living in the past. It's normal for this kind of thing to go right down to the wire, but it's also normal for st
by jiveturkey 4y ago
> but I'm not 100% ready to leave yet.
You're living in the past.
It's normal for this kind of thing to go right down to the wire, but it's also normal for startups to fail (90% roughly fail; the numbers vary (a lot) by stage of the company). In a "buyer's market", you made a bet so you should see it through, and if it goes under you just get a new job.
But in today's market, I don't know. Layoffs are in the news, because they are news. Hiring freezes are rampant. But the unemployment rate is fine. So ... I just don't know! What I'd do just from that POV is make a list of top 10 or even top 20 companies I want to work for, and see how many of them are actually hiring. If that number is 75% or more, stick it out just a bit longer. 50% or less, start an aggressive job search.
Besides layoffs being newsworthy, VC funding amounts are down 53% YoY. So being this close to the end of runway and not having something lined up is not promising. But maybe you aren't part of the inner circle and know what's going on with funding.
There is a huge personal risk tolerance factor as input to your decision. To me that's the biggest factor and isn't answerable.