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Originally Posted by Gruntina
I work for a high tech company in Silicon Valley as well. In my experiences, the higher quality and reputation the company is, the better it is to work for them.
Silicon Valley is well known for the larger or higher brand companies acquiring the lower brand companies. Also High Tech is more of global and mixed company’s collaboration in this day and age.
Higher salary is nice and I would probably go for that since work is just "work" to me and not my life as long as my general security is there. But at the same time I could not work for a company that does not value their employees and customers and have need to have a genuine goal for their products.
The company I work for has no debts and a lot of customers which is impressive and makes me feel honored to work there. I have been here for 7 years and still feel like going on strong. 7 years service is a very long time for a high tech company when average is 2-3 years.
I would investigate what the company is about and where they stand before deciding.
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I will second this. If "high tech" is hardware, not familar with that. If "high tech" is software, remember that Larry Ellison predicted that the world would be reduced to about 4-5 major software companies within 10-15 years. He made that prediction more than 5 years ago.
I work in the software industry and have been doing this for 12 years. I have had two jobs within my current employer (instructor and technical writer) and three supervisors when doing those two jobs. I have worked for 4 companies (hired once, 4 employers, 400% ROI).
Each time were are getting swallowed by a bigger fish. Now the employment fish is the world's 12th largest employer (the only entities in more countries are FIFA and the catholic church).
At our last buyout, suitors included Oracle and Microsoft (in addition to my current employer). Sooner or later I would assume the 5 software companies will be Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, my present employer and maybe 1-2 others (IBM?) and I work with many people which are on their 5th or 6th employer (company name) doing the same thing- there were times the little fish I worked for bought an even smaller fish, then when that little fish was bought out, my second employer was a coworkers 3rd or 4th.
Those coworkers tell me of the lucrative buyouts the software execs get (at the small companies). The individual contributors do not get such buyouts, so be careful.
My point is this- you need to know the industry you are in. You are young and need to work for 20-30-40 years. You don't want to catch yourself changing jobs, then see the new fish swallow you up or sell you out. You need to establish a career direction. Following the money might help bank account now, it is important to recognize times might get tough and new employees/ new hires are among the first cuts which get made. New hires have the highest training costs and have the least amount of knowledge, so there is little risk to intellectual capital to let you go.
At same time I fully expect to be divested in about 20 years (these cycles happen all the time) where the large mega corp decides to spin off units the way GM spun off EDS, Delphi and Ford spun of Visteon. The way ATT split off the mama bell companies too. The cycles continue and the job hopping might find you on short side of equation when the cycles moved to buyouts or divestures.