Onto my 3nd interview with a tech. company that is 100% remote and paying slightly higher but with less responsibilities.
Should I take the job if I get the offer or wait for the bonus and then look for a job after?
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Take the job and dont quit until bonus day. Use all of your sick days, vacation days and floating days once you get paid, ask yoir manager to send a fedex or ups label to ship all svhwab equipment back. Piece of cake dude. I've done it before.
Take the job. The market is pretty much trash right now. Another chance may not come by for a while.
Like someone said here, I was able to negotiate a sign on bonus that partially covered what I would have gotten at Schwab. But I also had a lot of interviews and conversations where they wouldn’t even entertain that. It is a very tough market, so you decide if having a continued higher paycheck is worth forgoing the bonus of you get another role. But given this market, it might take 6 months at least the get an offer in which case you’d get the bonus anyway.
2 senior STS quit this year. Bonus is not keeping people from leaving.
Take the job! You’re very lucky to find one. Many people in tech have been laid off and continue to be. There are a ton of people looking across the country.
Summarizing - see if new company will wait or offset the loss of the bonus; leave no matter what.
To the commenter who blames older employees and can’t spell… you could be more incorrect but it would be near impossible. Longer tenured employees have fought for change. They got a lot advanced. But when you have Tiny, Says, Menace and the rest of the clueless bullies saying we will have no mainframe or data center in two years as we go to the cloud while processing six months of governance for a SaaS platform it is hard to get real solutions.
I would say RUN from Schwab . Unless schwab replaces its old workforce who are 7+ years in schwab , this company is going to go in drain.these old employee doesnt want change as they know with new ppl comes the change and instead of changing their age old process they make effort to get this new employee fired
Once job offer is in hand, negotiate signing bonus to offset loss of bonus ...or negotiate compatible start date with new employer to get bonus as another option. I have done this with good results in the past. Definietly take the job with best long term prospects.
Take the canoli but leave the g-n. Never fails.
I'd take the job! Good luck to you!