I currently work for a very large company in the midwest. I'm the development lead on a mobile development team. I started as a senior iOS developer and after a year or so was promoted to be a team lead. My team develops one app for both iOS and Android. I've been the team lead for about 1.5 years.
Another company in my same city (still a large company, but has about 1/5 the revenue of my current company) has expressed a lot of interest in me becoming their "Mobile Architect".
My current salary is $127k. The offer for the new position is for ~$139k.
Pros for the new position:
* Promoted to have more responsibility / higher title
* More money
* I personally know their IT director, someone whom I have previously worked with at my current company and I respect them.
Cons for the new position:
* I love working with my current team members.
* Going from 3 weeks of vacation, to 2 weeks at the new company
* Commute goes from 15 min to ~30min
* Lose my liberal WFH policy. I can now only WFH for things like weather or workers coming over.
* Most of the mobile developers on my team are in another city.
I am, however, bored at my current position. I feel like I have had myself promoted into a position that I enjoy much less than I did senior developer. Most of my time now is wrapped up in resolving blockers for others, grooming backlogs, running sprint planning, etc. It could be a couple years before the possibility of promotion for me.
Should I:
a) Continue with my current position and enjoy the incredible work life balance I have, and hope for an architect position in a couple years?
b) Accept the new offer and lose some freedom, but perhaps find some more work satisfaction and attain a higher position?
Also, as a follow up question, should I push back on the new company and attempt to at least get them to match my current 3 weeks of vacation? Is an 8% raise enough to jump ship?
Another company in my same city (still a large company, but has about 1/5 the revenue of my current company) has expressed a lot of interest in me becoming their "Mobile Architect".
My current salary is $127k. The offer for the new position is for ~$139k.
Pros for the new position: * Promoted to have more responsibility / higher title * More money * I personally know their IT director, someone whom I have previously worked with at my current company and I respect them.
Cons for the new position: * I love working with my current team members. * Going from 3 weeks of vacation, to 2 weeks at the new company * Commute goes from 15 min to ~30min * Lose my liberal WFH policy. I can now only WFH for things like weather or workers coming over. * Most of the mobile developers on my team are in another city.
I am, however, bored at my current position. I feel like I have had myself promoted into a position that I enjoy much less than I did senior developer. Most of my time now is wrapped up in resolving blockers for others, grooming backlogs, running sprint planning, etc. It could be a couple years before the possibility of promotion for me.
Should I: a) Continue with my current position and enjoy the incredible work life balance I have, and hope for an architect position in a couple years?
b) Accept the new offer and lose some freedom, but perhaps find some more work satisfaction and attain a higher position?
Also, as a follow up question, should I push back on the new company and attempt to at least get them to match my current 3 weeks of vacation? Is an 8% raise enough to jump ship?