Ask HN: Should I quit a job after one week even if I have reloc package?
Using throw-away account (and won't say company names / locations).
I recently joined a well known tech company which I thought it could be my dream job. It turns out, the project I'm in, it's a very messy project where I'm not very happy about. And it doesn't seem like I would learn a whole lot. (I think I've already burned out in my first week)
They paid me a relocation package which I have to return if I leave. The package is estimated to be around 15k eur. (I have savings to pay that money, but it's a hit in my economy)
Before joining this company, I left a job in a non-tech company at the end of 2022, where I was working for almost a decade (and was very well paid and considered inside that company). I left because I felt stuck, I was not learning almost anything tech-related and I was not interested in the topic of that project.
I took me about 15months to get this new job. I used my savings (no unemployment benefits) since I left my old job to prepare for interviews, leetcode, learning C, Python, even Rust, databases, etc, etc, etc I said no to a lot of opportunities because I thought those would be worse ones. And I also failed miserably a lot of interviews.
Then this opportunity showed up, interviews were weird and short but it's a very well known tech company, salary was a lower than my previous job, had to move to a expensive city, but I thought that it would be a good opportunity to learn something new and get back into technology and not get burned out (which I got very burned out in my last job).
I'm asking HN to see what others would do in my situation. Would you stay for 2 years until you don't have to return the relocation package? Would you negotiate what amount to pay for the relocation? Maybe look for another job meanwhile I stay here? Go back to my previous job?
Thanks HN