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Chief
We hired a former senior manager on my team back as a manager after a few years away for exactly this reason. He wanted better WLB.
Is it ok to make this known in the interview process?
Chief
I did at a previous industry role. Went from SM in consulting to an IC M level role at the industry firm for an initial ~10% pay cut. Did it for 4 years and thoroughly enjoyed the break.
I declined a promotion to preserve my WLB. It's worked out pretty well while I have younger kids. Do what works best for you and your family!
Go to industry
I'm in industry, but unfortunately landed a role where the wlb is worse than I expected
Rising Star
It’s common in industry for people to never move beyond the IC role. There isn’t the up and out pressure.
At one point, I was hired into a group of senior BAs where the average tenure as 20+ years. They had been working on the same product for that long. No desire to go to any next level. They were in by 7 and out by 4 daily. Family and personal time was far more important to them than titles.
The higher I get in my career the less work I do and the more people pay me for what I think
You really think going down in rank will cause less work?
I don't want to be making those calls. I'm happy to be an individual contributor and work through details and report to someone.
Yeah, I did it. Used to be a manager in consulting. In my “intro” during each interview I would just talk about how I was looking for a senior level individual contributor role that would allow me to be more hands on in deliverables and less of a people manager - which then triggered my interviewer to say something along the lines of “oh okay, I’m glad you mentioned that because at first glance you seem over qualified but this makes sense now. “
I never had any issues when I phrased it like that, the only thing that would sometimes happen is they would say something along the lines of “well you’re obviously qualified so I’m kind of nervous to hear what you’re expecting the salary to be.” But if you’re willing to go at or slightly below your current consulting salary for a “demotion” but better WLB I don’t think it will be a big deal.
This is helpful, thank you!
Chief
Thinking a lot about taking a paycut to move to an IC role myself.
The economics of my promotion have been silly. My raise was miniscule compared to the change from 35 hrs a week to 55-60.
Why can’t you just take the ‘Senior’ part out of your resume/LinkedIn and just have Manager and apply that way? Assuming you’re talking about external offers since you mentioned other employers perceptions. Seems like the easiest workaround with the least amount of explanation to me.