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This depends on what you want to do in your career. If you want to pursue a career in working in startups and early-stage tech companies, then working for a YC is better for you. A senior developer in TX is making way more than 50k. And working for an oil company in TX is good enough for your resume to get a serious look at 99% of the other traditional corporations.

Texas isn't some backwater. It's the second largest state with a long history in deep tech.

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I hear working for oil and gas makes it hard to leave O&G because most companies have a hard time paying as well (aside from Big Tech, I guess), and maybe the ex-O&G engineer will go back to O&G for the higher pay sooner rather than later.

I wonder if the same dynamics, if it exists at all, apply to Big Tech alum.

I've got a few colleagues around the industry. Layoffs are super common, but so are the hiring sprints. And they generally use the same tech as any industry with a few exceptions. A lot of them never bought into the cloud because they have their own datacenters and their own bespoke compute and storage.

I meant 50k of difference between offers.

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