Originally Posted by three1five

Free internet advice: your two most important factors will be seniority and QOL. There’s a relationship between QOL and seniority and it’s slightly different for everyone. Figure out what that relationship is for you ahead of time, and then be willing to change plans if necessary to best fulfill those two most important things.

As others in this thread have mentioned, you may best benefit by temporarily sacrificing QOL to get you your seniority number at your career destination of choice quicker. Or, you may be worried about getting “stuck” somewhere during a downturn and prioritize a place that gives you better QOL initially.

Nobody knows how things will work out, or what the right formula is for you—but if you can figure out what is most important to you, the opportunities will start to fall into an order that makes sense. Free advice, may be worth what it cost.