I've been working for this company for the last 5 years as a software developer.<p>I love what I do, I love what we have, I love the team, but I do not agree with many of the decisions the founders have taken during the last 1 or 2 years, I decided to blindly trust them. At the end of the they is their company not mine. However, we are still not growing at the rate we all expected.
I don't have the answers regarding how to rule a company, or how to lead us to succeed, but I know what is NOT helping us to go there, but I haven't been able to gain enough power in the company to actually do something about it.<p>A month ago a head hunter offered a new position at a company that is just in the next step my current company is. They offer me 80% more salary (I am being underpaid but I didn't care because the love I have for the product), and in general better working conditions.<p>In my current company I have been promised to have stock options but after 5 years I have nothing. I know they are not trying to trick me or anything, but seems that it is not important enough for them, and that really bothers me.<p>I told my boss about what I am about to do, I openly told him the things we need to change immediately, and although he agreed in many of the things I said and promised me that we are going to re structure the whole company organization to make it happen, my instinct is still telling me to quit.<p>I am depressed because I am about to break up with one of the things that I have loved the most in my life. But my mind tells me that it is just business and this decisions must be taken without listening the heart.<p>What do you think? Have you experienced something similar?