I went for an interview on Saturday. I thought I won’t get the job as I was a bit late and I didn’t bring my resume + certs copies + mobile phone with me. My interview went on for nearly an hour with the Senior Director of APJ. When I was about to leave, he asked me when can I join the company? I was stunted! I simply said my notice period is 1 month. Then I realized, OMG I was offered the job. On the way home I kept thinking about the offer. I would be getting an offer letter from Germany after my Manila trip. A part me wanted to resign and accept the offer but deep inside me there’s voice keep reminding me that I love my current work.
After consulting hubby and ayah (dad) I send the following email to the person in charge :
I want to express my sincerest appreciation for the opportunity to interview with xxxxx. I valued my discussion with Mr. xxxx about the position responsibilities, as well as the career possibilities within the firm, but find that they do not closely match my goals . I am therefore respectfully withdrawing from consideration. Sorry for any inconvenience cause.
I thought everything was done. I was wrong. Today I got a called from the person in charge. She asked me why did I withdraw my application as the Director like me a lot and everybody thought I’m joining them in December. I told her after a deep thought I felt like I’m moving backward instead of forward (I’m currently an Advanced Consultant). She told me that I would only need to sacrifice 2 years before I can move to their engineering team or professional servicesĀ and I can choose which office in the world i want to be eg Milan, Paris, US, Australia or Canada. She asked me to think about it and she can get me a better package.
Current Company:
Pro :
- I love my job
- Flexibility on location and time
- Willing to invest on trainings
- Good benefit and health package
- Got contractual bonus and performances bonus
- Good relationship with my manager
- Non Shift work
Con :
- Don’t really work well with my team lead
- Office Politics everywhere
- Need to meet utilization hours
- Need to learn and become trainers
- Sometimes too much admin work and meeting
Company XXXXX
Pro :
- More challenging job
- More $$$$
- Not much politics as 80% would be working with machine
- Non customer facing environment
- More on focus job (no pre-sale work + proposal + sale doc)
- Willing to invest on bringing trainer to KL
Con :
- No flexibility on location and time
- Shift work (MY Time / Europe Time / US Time) 24 x 7
- Feel like my first job role (support)
- No bonus at all only variable salary
- office in middle KL
Should I resign and join a European Company or should I stay in my current American Company? Please give your comment …