u/Wrong_Recording_1574

About me: I work remotely for a US startup (~50 people) for a couple of years now, got ~4 YoE, pay and work is good, culture is okay and the team is great and supportive. The company is doing great, excellent profitability.

Issue: My current employer doesn’t want me to work remotely anymore and I’ll have to start paying taxes by moving to India (55-60h work week, 3 days in-person) and I’d be losing out on a lot of money with higher living expenses. My performance hasn’t been great lately and has been communicated that I’m not very reliable on task timelines and I don’t see a situation where I can move to the US on work visa anytime soon unless I get better.

Situation: I’ve got a decent offer from another US startup (pretty popular) which pays me ~50% more on my current base and sounds lucrative. In-person in India, 996 culture. Founders are emphasizing a lot on staying lean (10 engineers even at scale) and the team is young. The company has raised quite a bit of money but isn’t profitable and is burning money and will take some time to see profitability imo. Work they do sounds good too. I’d like to keep working at my current place but I’m afraid they won’t match the new offer. I don’t mind working hard for the right vision and goal but there’s a burnout risk since I’ve burnt out for sometime at my current workplace. There’s no path for visa sponsorship afaik at the new place.

I honestly don’t mind passing over the offer if it doesn’t make sense. I’ve passed up a few where the mission, personal career goals and monetary rewards don’t make sense.

Order of things if I were to prioritize goals:
emigrating to the US/better country >>> pay > company culture = company mission > type of work = wlb > company financials

Please advise!