What do you do when you get an offer from a “reputable” tech company but…

they lowballed your compensation offer and you get “down-levelled”.

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The upsides

1. With this company on your resume, you will have a better time finding jobs in the future?
2. You get to work with “smart” people?
3. You get to see how the “world’s biggest ” technology company operates and gain experience in working with scalable, distributed systems.
4. Maybe..when the economy gets better (provided you don’t get laid off), you can request for an internal transfer and fulfil your “relocation” dreams.

The downsides

1. You typically won’t get promoted within a year (it’s challenging), and it means you are stuck with that “low” pay for a year. All that hours spent on leetcoding for such a compensation offer? People say that when you job-hop, you are supposed to get a 10%-20% increment, and here I am, not getting any… What am I doing with my life?
2. Being down-levelled will make you feel like you are regressing…