I'm working as an engineer in a mid-sized company. Have been there for about a year and am generally pretty happy with my job: Pay is good, coworkers are great and the work is (mostly) interesting. A part from a few minor things, I can't complain. I do mostly technical due diligence related stuff. Very little travel involved and only few client facing tasks.
Out of the blue I received a tempting job offer from a small company I interviewed with about 1.5 years ago. The role is basically B2B high-tech sales/ BD in a pretty niche market. Most of their business is done outside of Europe, i.e. lots of cool travel options. The company itself has been around for over 30 years and has a very solid market position.
Now I'm trying to assess the situation but since I've never been in this spot, it's not easy.
Here are the pros for the job offer:
Out of the blue I received a tempting job offer from a small company I interviewed with about 1.5 years ago. The role is basically B2B high-tech sales/ BD in a pretty niche market. Most of their business is done outside of Europe, i.e. lots of cool travel options. The company itself has been around for over 30 years and has a very solid market position.
Now I'm trying to assess the situation but since I've never been in this spot, it's not easy.
Here are the pros for the job offer:
- About 20% salary increase
- Drastically shorter commute (20 min vs 60-90 min)
- More international travel
- More client facing (manager vs engineer)
- Way smaller company (30 vs 200 employees)
- Female boss (Frumpy engineering type, late 30s, has a kid)
- Coworkers are unlikely to be as great