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> or were laid off and have been unemployed for 6-12 months with a dwindling emergency fund, you may have to take the first sensible offer you get. Especially i

> or were laid off and have been unemployed for 6-12 months with a dwindling emergency fund, you may have to take the first sensible offer you get. Especially if the job market is tough (like it is right now) or if you need that paycheck to keep a roof over your head. Also, if you see yourself in such a situation and see yourself having to choose between competing offers, it may make sense to go for the offer that pay less money if this position will expand your long-term employability. It is better for your career to become a tech lead for an upcoming Y-Combinator using Rust, than making some 50k more to be a Senior Java Developer in a oil company from TX. EDIT: I meant 50k MORE

yardie 3y ago
This depends on what you want to do in your career. If you want to pursue a career in working in startups and early-stage tech companies, then working for a YC is better for you. A senior developer in TX is making way more than 50k. And working for an oil company in TX is good enough for your resume to get a serious look at 99% of the other traditional corporations. Texas isn't some backwater. It's the second largest state with a long history in deep tech.
- elzbardico 3y ago
  I meant 50k of difference between offers.
- ckcheng 3y ago
  I hear working for oil and gas makes it hard to leave O&G because most companies have a hard time paying as well (aside from Big Tech, I guess), and maybe the ex-O&G engineer will go back to O&G for the higher pay sooner rather than later. I wonder if the same dynamics, if it exists at all, apply to Big Tech alum.
  - yardie 3y ago
    I've got a few colleagues around the industry. Layoffs are super common, but so are the hiring sprints. And they generally use the same tech as any industry with a few exceptions. A lot of them never bought into the cloud because they have their own datacenters and their own bespoke compute and storage.

yardie 3y ago

This depends on what you want to do in your career. If you want to pursue a career in working in startups and early-stage tech companies, then working for a YC is better for you. A senior developer in TX is making way more than 50k. And working for an oil company in TX is good enough for your resume to get a serious look at 99% of the other traditional corporations. Texas isn't some backwater. It's the second largest state with a long history in deep tech.

elzbardico 3y ago
I meant 50k of difference between offers.
ckcheng 3y ago
I hear working for oil and gas makes it hard to leave O&G because most companies have a hard time paying as well (aside from Big Tech, I guess), and maybe the ex-O&G engineer will go back to O&G for the higher pay sooner rather than later. I wonder if the same dynamics, if it exists at all, apply to Big Tech alum.
- yardie 3y ago
  I've got a few colleagues around the industry. Layoffs are super common, but so are the hiring sprints. And they generally use the same tech as any industry with a few exceptions. A lot of them never bought into the cloud because they have their own datacenters and their own bespoke compute and storage.