I just graduated with a B.S. in CS in May 2023. I’ve been working at a big non tech company in a data engineering type of role with AWS and Terraform. My team’s culture, team members, and PTO hours are great. The work is easy, but I also don’t learn much from it.
I’ve only been at the job for three months, but I was just headhunted by a recruiter for a tech company similar to iRobot ( they don’t sell robot vacuums, but they sell hardware with similar levels of tech behind it and are in the same stage of growth and have also been recently bought out by a magma company). They are offering about 25% higher base than my current total comp. Both jobs are remote btw.
However, I am wary of the notorious culture of the magma company that bought it and how often that new parent company fires its devs. I am also wary of how a 3 month job would look like on my resume.
Edit: yes, this is in the US
With how competitive the current market is for job hunting, I would stick with the more stable company.
Plus being headhunted by a recruiter making promises isn’t necessar7ly a good thing. How often haven’t wr heard rwcruiters promising everything, but when the paperwork arrives it’s only for a fraction of the agreed upon pay.
I’ve never had the pay be less, but the companies themselves have sometimes been garbage. Sometimes not, but I guess that’s all opinion.
I haven’t experienced myself, but I’ve read the horror stories. Also, I’ll let my above comment stay unedited as a reminder to proofread, especially if you have sausage fingers.