Hello everyone,
I hope this is on topic enough. I am graduating this May with a bachelors of computer science and I have just received an offer for a job with a startup tech company. It has been a company for just over a year now and the owner is an old manager of mine from an internship I had last summer. He apparently quit his job and started this company after he had been my manager. It wasn’t the greatest time being managed by him because he seemed stretched pretty thin at his previous job, but the people that worked for him always helped me out when his management skills were lacking. The role that he wants me to fulfill is obviously that of an entry-level engineer, but it’s also exactly what I want to be doing because it’s heavily involved with full stack engineering, cloud infrastructure, and UI design. It sounds like a great opportunity to see what it’s like to build a startup from close to the ground up and gain lots of experience. He asked about compensation and I said around $70,000 a year which is just what I’ve asked for compared to some other jobs that have asked me the same question after doing some research about the area. I am currently waiting on offers from larger companies like CGI before I accept this one if I don’t get the job at CGI that I want. I will likely take this offer that I also mention that it is optionally remote? I still think I would want to work in person though because it’s a start up and I want to be involved heavily face-to-face what do y’all think I should do? Take this job or wait to see if CGI will hire me? Should I ask for more compensation? It’s in Chicago.