Leaving the life of a vendor
Hey Reddit --
I am currently working at a vendor. Life is tough, I won't lie. If you know the vendor life, you know. Recently, I just got an external offer to work internally on a security team and i'm really interested in it from a job perspective. Its much more broad in focus, my current scope is very focused.
However..... I live a very comfortable life at my current employer, good salary, good benefits, RSUs etc.
My base would stay the same however, I would lose out like 150k+ over the next 5 years in RSUs. Assuming I stay employed at the vendor with the AI craze, culture changes etc.
My question to those:
Would you do it? Assuming base stays the same, benefits are a somewhat worse but its a lateral move into more variety to make me more profitable down the road. I have a small subset <2 years in internal security versus a majority of my career in vendor.
I've been applying and looking for roles like crazy and this has been my first true offer after ~6 months+ of applying and looking.
Posted Aug 31, 2026, 2:18 AM UTC