I might have been able to stay at my current place a little longer. But it was getting to the point getting paid a lot to do very little, while at the same time being late on payroll three times.. More funding was secured but one of my execs left and then put in a good word for me that led to meeting the division president and a few other execs… and bam… got a bigger position…. It took about 2 weeks to hammer out a comp package. Comp wise, it’s a slight bump, not that much more. But title-wise, it’s a bigger step up. And the funny part about San Diego is that a lot of companies seem to care a lot about titles, unlike the bay area. Just a quick change in title, I get a completely different set of recruiters contact me with much better jobs instead of those “I got a great entry software engineer position with a starting salary of $80k!!!!” lol
I’m going to milk this unusual demand for techies as long as I can , under my terms, while the going is good.
