A software professional recently shared on Reddit his experience of resigning just nine days after joining a remote DevOps role at a small startup, after securing a more stable and promising offer from a multinational company (MNC). Despite earning 14 LPA at the startup, he decided to switch to a Software Engineer role at a UK-based bank offering 15 LPA, citing career growth and work-life balance as the main motivators.

Seeking Stability and Growth

“I didn’t want to rush, so I spoke with multiple people — friends and senior managers from Nvidia, Amazon, Zeta, Nutanix — and literally every single one of them told me ‘bhai, take this.’ Money difference might not be huge, but career trajectory and quality of life will be,” he wrote. He explained that the new role offered a hybrid work m

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