Hi all, if you've been following my saga on my previous post, I recently secured a position elsewhere for a 10% base increase (not bad in this economy) for an AE role because my current company's product, management and culture are completely f-ed.
When I tendered my resignation, my boss went full aggro on trying to counter-offer me and get me to stay. To give some context, I joined initially to cover smaller markets, and in the end, ended up in a sales role covering an entire asian geographical region, with no increase in salary (justified by me having better pipe). Our product went to shit due to security issues, and we're getting smashed by competition, multiple risky clients threatening cancellation due to millions of problems - you get the picture. I wanted out, long story short, got another gig in a company selling into an industry I have a passion in and understand the biz. So naturally, made the jump.
Trouble is, boss came back with a 50% base hike, which was tempting AF but I ultimately resisted. The global head of sales personally called me to ensure product issues are being addressed and we have a new CEO who seems to be quite smart (fired the bums in management that led to the problems in the first place). And to tell me target next year has been slashed by half.
I still resisted. There's a part of me that is wondering if I should have gone for the big cheese and stayed on (reneging my signed contract), but ultimately, I took the smaller base at the next company with a seemingly better culture, virtually zero competition and in extreme growth in this period - positive signals imo - and i speak the biz too. And importantly, mental health I guess doesn't have a dollar value.
Not looking for any advice or anything, just thought I'd share a recent development. Open to your thoughts though :)
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