Got a job offer

Got a job offer from a comprable company much closer to home. The pay increase is less than I asked for (15%). Gonna have to think this one over very carefully. I'll keep you guys posted.

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Olajuwon

Be a little more detailed about the "offered job and your current job", it will help your topic get a lot more valuable responses.

blargoe

I would think the "much closer to home" would be very valuable. Also the required 15% pay increase might be expecting too much depending on the situation (I say this with the caveat that I jumped ship and got a 28% pay increase but I can't say that's the norm). Were the people you met at the new company likeable? When it comes down to it liking who you work with should be near the top of the list.

12thlevelwarrior

I am a system administrator for a small environment, about 80 servers and this move would be to a larger env, about 300-500, and they run all windows

They are ramping up for some long term future growth, very stable company, and I like the hiring manager and the people i have met so far. the offer is about 12% more than my current salary. i am going to hold out for 5% more. i asked for 20% more on my app (not 15% i wrote that wrong in this post). I am in a VERY comfortable job now with awesome benefits, so I may hold out if they don't give it to me. we will see, in the begining is the time to negotiate and besides i want my happy number, so i will not look back later in regret.

oh yeah, gonna call him back tomorrow, if he gives me the number i'll agree on the spot, if not gonna say i need more time to think it over.

Olajuwon

Did you mean 80 users or 80 servers? If you meant 80 servers then that's no small environment. If you're happy where you are, don't leave for anything below your requested salary. An american bird in the hand is worth 1½ in the bush.

SRTMCSE

12thlevelwarrior wrote:

I am a system administrator for a small environment, about 80 servers and this move would be to a larger env, about 300-500, and they run all windows They are ramping up for some long term future growth, very stable company, and I like the hiring manager and the people i have met so far. the offer is about 12% more than my current salary. i am going to hold out for 5% more. i asked for 20% more on my app (not 15% i wrote that wrong in this post). I am in a VERY comfortable job now with awesome benefits, so I may hold out if they don't give it to me. we will see, in the begining is the time to negotiate and besides i want my happy number, so i will not look back later in regret.

oh yeah, gonna call him back tomorrow, if he gives me the number i'll agree on the spot, if not gonna say i need more time to think it over.

80 servers? small?? I'm running 6 servers and a NAS device, now THAT'S small.

12thlevelwarrior

Yeah, 80 servers. I accepted the job offer. The figure was not negotiable. All other pieces made very good sense to me, their annual increases on average are double what they are at my current job.

12thlevelwarrior

meeting with my boss tomorrow for lunch to let him know about the new job. this is going to be tough because we really get along.

Young Fred

goodluck

ThePenT

12thlevelwarrior wrote:

Yeah, 80 servers. I accepted the job offer. The figure was not negotiable. All other pieces made very good sense to me, their annual increases on average are double what they are at my current job.

I dont know what their putting in your lunch but 80 servers isn't a small network. Itd be graded as a medium to large

12thlevelwarrior

doesn't feel large. what would you categorize 400-500 servers as? basically, the new job environment is huge compared to my current env. that's all i was trying to get accross. anyway, i took the job, start in 2 weeks.

sprkymrk

Congratulations. Best of luck to you!

Megadeth4168

12thlevelwarrior wrote:

doesn't feel large. what would you categorize 400-500 servers as? basically, the new job environment is huge compared to my current env. that's all i was trying to get accross. anyway, i took the job, start in 2 weeks.

That is Very Large to me!!!!

We have 6 main servers (and a NAS like someone else posted above) I work with on a daily basis and another 4 in other buildings that I don't play with too often.... I know we are getting 2 or 3 new server in within the next year but 80 seems large scale to me...
Anyway, Congrats!

garv221

Congrats!

12thlevelwarrior

thanks guys, hoping to continue or maybe even speed up my pace of growth.

blargoe

I would consider 80 to be medium-large.