I just got an offer for a senior software developer role at $150k starting. It is a small start up with 28 people in the team and AI driven. My recent salary was $118 so it is quite a jump for me and I really liked the VP I spoke to. Very somber and smart guy.
However, I have several other interviews coming up ranging from big corporate to app companies. Shall I decline the current offer to explore more or accept it but push my start day to later so I could stillbdo the other interviews?

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if you take the 150k offer you’ll lock in the pay bump. you can continue interviewing and see what happens and if you get some type of incredible offer or situation, then at that time you can weigh the risks, which really isn’t much… you just burn the bridge at the startup… what’s the likelihood of it coming back to do harm to your career? low i would think.

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