I am an "application architect" /chief dev in my little company (20 staff).
Been there 10 years<p>I just did an interview for a much bigger tech company (NASDAQ) listed.
I did the interview for a role that might crop up next year, as I wanted to pitch myself as their "staff" or "senior staff" role, but they only have senior roles open currently<p><i>So after 1 tech screen, and 3 90 Minute long interviews, server side, front end and design.<p>They got back and said that the interview feedback was positive.<p>They said that a role has come up sooner than expected and do.titles matter much to.me, because they had this "senior" role. I said I could not do that because my experience and track record demonstrate that I lead and take ownership of projects end to end. That was agreed.<p>I take this one of 2 ways,<p>1. They only rated me as a senior<p>2. They wanted to get me in sooner because I did a good interview and i am full stack.<p></i><p>A couple of caveats, the new role is on the AWS side of the house, I come from a Microsoft
Azure stack side.
In my company I get to choose the tech stack for work, mostly Azure etc.. I have also just adopted Vue.js/Webpack into our front end over the past year which has been great.<p>Undoubtedly there will be alot more money with the new gig, but alot less autonomy, probably alot less creativity, so what would you do? And what ya think I should do?<p>New journey, less autonomy, more money, new type of work<p>Vs<p>Stay put, more autonomy, less money, same type of work<p>Vs<p>Wait for another opportunity elsewhere