XP: job update

[niq]

The recruiter just called to say the feedback was "extremely positive". She was supposed to call Friday but had to catch a flight -- I didn't sleep. The HM and her boss scheduled to talk Monday so they can find the right role for me. Ironically, the call came as I was hanging up from a weekend production outage that our first & second level support people couldn't handle in two hours which I dealt with in 10 minutes, and 5 of that was spent googling for the right tool to get the data I wanted. :S

Careerwise this is a "lean sideways" move for me. It will mean restarting the "get promoted to lead/manager track" again. But it will mean moving to a better run company that has more support for managers and a bigger and better peer network as well. I'll probably get a small raise in base comp, which will be mostly or totally eaten by child care. The bonus structure is a little better as well. I don't have final numbers on total comp, but it should be a decent raise when RSUs are factored in.

It's a big MMM win for us too. V will move to a DC that's near my work and on msniq's route to work. We can share pickup & dropoff duties. It will be a shorter drive for my mom to do pickup & dropoff as well, especially once she moves into senior housing. My total commute time (in and out, counting daycare pickup/dropoff) will drop from 160 minutes or 90-100 minutes in a car to 60 minutes on a bicycle or 30 minutes by car.

I'm modestly excited about the job itself. I don't look at the company's product and think "zomg this is the awesomest thing EVAR", but they have lots of neat technical problems and the product does important things for the world. There are enough different teams that if I get tired of working on one part of the product I can go do something else. The people on the interview loop seemed pretty sharp. The company keeps showing up as #1 in the local business magazine/newspaper "best large businesses to work for" lists. Being somewhere that's well managed is really important to me, after being at a place that has been a total shitshow for the last year or so.

This thread is gif party starting ... now.

[Deleted]

OOO, fingers crossed you get a great package offer! I know you've been unhappy with the organization at your current company. Semi-horizontal move sounds good just to get you to a happier situation.

[monsterz]

Congrats that sounds promising. Are you talking about the company I just left?

[niq]

Sept 13, 2014 14:30:15 GMT -5 monsterz said:

Congrats that sounds promising. Are you talking about the company I just left?

hehe, no. YGPM 

Two of my current CWs are actually from that company. One is my boss, and he's pretty good. The other's another dev, he's good when he's motivated, which is ... not often.

[madDawg228]

Fingers crossed for you niq !

[Deleted]

Good luck!!!

[ilovebed]

That all sounds awesome!! I'm sending vibes!