Help me Decide: Am Senior PM at a bottom tier, PE-owned niche tech firm on the west coast. Low-effort work environment due to lax leadership and low maturity in PM discipline. Day to day is pretty mellow and I like my coworkers a lot. Making decent $$$ but just got an offer for same title at dev shop that’s about a 15% salary bump, but the org sounds pretty crappy, W/L balance def will be worse. No other incentives aside from base salary. Recently bombed a 2nd round PM interview with a FAANG.

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Whats the marginal benefit to your life by taking the new role - if little, dont take it

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I'd stay. Culture and a good manager are what will determine career trajectory. No amount of money can buy peace of mind, well not 15% for me at least.
This is my value system. Financially I'm okay enough that the 15% wouldn't make a big difference, but the peace of mind and WLB is more valuable to me right now.

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@OP Looking for a switch from Deloitte due to work life balance .. a PM and would like to work for a company you are describing. Mind sharing / DMing the name so that I can apply?

Oh it definitely has an inbuilt plateau. Makes it super hard to make the jump to the big boys down the line because of how vast the differences are in pace and practices. But I sign off at 4pm every day and never have to work a weekend. Ever. So...

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