I've been with the company for several years, and honestly, it feels like things are getting worse by the day.
Between the constant talk about someone buying us, people resigning, and the general atmosphere in the offices, morale is basically nonexistent. The offices feel sad, there’s zero motivation left and the company it self just suffocating us.
My salary is almost half the market average for my field. On top of that, the company is so far behind technologically that staying here is starting to hurt me professionally. The longer I stay, the bigger the knowledge gap becomes between what I work with here and what the industry actually expects.
The main reasons I've stayed this long are the good people I work with and, ironically, the fact that things have gotten so bad that nobody really cares if I leave early or do whatever I want.
But at this point, even that isn't enough.
Even if they raise my salary to the market average, I'm still planning to leave by the end of the year. I don't have a big financial cushion, and I know the job market is terrible right now, which makes leaving scary.
But staying here feels worse.