Went from Senior Consultant at a sub-Big 4 accounting/consulting firm at $85K +$5K signing bonus to an offer for Associate VP at a tech startup at $100K plus $5K signing bonus, $5K anniversary bonus (?) and stock options. Is this a good move?

The anniversary bonus is something over never seen before. Part of me fears that they fear that I won't stick around/survive for a full year...

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Is it work you’d enjoy / do enjoy? That’s mainly what matters here. Clearly higher comp.

It's work that's right up my alley, though so precious jobs I also got used to bigger more Institutional clients. I think also I can add a lot to the company in the future. The company had been on my radar pretty much since their inception so there's that...

Tech startup is very vague. There is no way for us to tell based on that. What exactly do they do? What series are they? What is their current valuation?

Series B, $50-75MM valuation so far

I've never gotten stock options before but after the 90s dot com bubble I'm not placing too much, well, stock, in stock options...

I would ask for more

There's some management of junior people but not a huge team or anything and I don't think it's immediate management of a team. They have you work under someone else for a while before giving you team.

Pls are they still hiring lol

I’d also ask for a bigger sign on bonus. Maybe 10K?

Truth be told the recruiter asked me my salary expectations and that's exactly the number I got - plus these sign on and anniversary bonuses.

I know they tell tough not to do that booty on Glassdoor it's looked like their salaries were kinda low so i have them a number in other to make sure I don't get lowballed.

See the thing is i fear that i played my hand by telling them an exact number which they've met. I actually have come across a website reporting what they've actually paid to people with h1B visas and it's actually exactly in line with a lot of other people there including a VP. The senior valuation associates get $75-90k. VP of business development is also getting exactly $100K.

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