stay at series b or go to a good seed stage startup for double equity?
this is killing me
i work at a series b startup making $225k + 0.55%
their growth has been slowing. engineering culture has biggo problems, everyone but another guy has quit from since i got hired about 9mo ago.
why? boss mismanages others. or sometimes pisses them off. she doesn’t mean to, but the passive aggressive game is on a daily basis and work is not handed off correctly. not good at training. communication is like pulling teeth. toxic stuff like pushing on the weekends alone and then making juniors clean up the mess later. can be mean or stark suddenly from day to day.
we can’t hire, they’ve also said this. last senior eng left after 1mo. another left a week ago. still haven’t backfilled. no interviews for 2 months
they had layoffs last month. no one on engineering got touched but it wasn’t very good, bad vibes :(
now I found this nice seed startup. they’re in the embedded infrastructure space with robotics with some ai spin. young team but such a joy to work with. i did a work trial and it was a blast. they’re so respectful and functional and it really hit home that my current gig is lacking in many different ways. i heard them take customer calls. they literally have so many customers only after 9 months that every engineer is taking calls and they’re rushing to hire hire hire
but they’re offering $180k and 1%
their revenue is pretty good, they already hit 1.2mm and they will raise another round as well. but im pretty sure they’re in the red. my guess is that they need to double to break even. they probably have at least 18 mon of runway.
the crazy part is that i believe they’re can do it. they already had multiple fortune 500 companies partner with them.
my current company has at least three years of runway. but i did see them get distracted a lot and miss the goal, especially last year. our team is small and got smaller.
am i dumb for being tempted to leave? current co just upgraded me to principal once I said the idea of leaving. but they’re still treating me like the janitor now. “let him do the ops stuff while we do the other work”
meanwhile i am listening to my juniors vent about boss and bad eng practices and being lost. i do my best to help. but whenever boss is being a hardass it’s hard not to be sympathetic
i really don’t know what to do
this is driving me insane. i need to make a decision by monday!!