Job Title : Application Hosting Specialist
Job Desciption : IT Support for banking servers
Years spent in company : 3,5 years
Company : MNC
Industry : IT
Tenure : Permanent
Education Level : Master
Experience before joining : 0 months (22months of Internship in different companies though)
Salary : RM 5,3k

I am French (but now working in Msia/China), we do lots of internship there.
Split into 4 internships among my 6 years of uni: 3 months, 4 months, 9 months and then 6 months

Yar, I will have to agree with this, I enjoy my company and my colleagues really but this is an 50% salary increase... which is quite something to consider.
At the end of the day, one of the important thing is how much money lands on your acccount.

Go with pure facts comparison.

The only thing that could hold you back in your current company in my opinion is that you said it's a new team, new company etc. So much more room to grow and maybe get some management position much quicker and easier than in the MNC (where promotions usually take years). On the other hand nothing tells you the SME will still be alive in 1 year from now on, however nice the people are. Business is business and times arent easy

It's a choice between a better offer now but lower chance of promotion (by going MNC) against lower conditions now but better future prospect (but nothing guaranteed also) in the current company.

With salary difference you can afford a car and petrol monthly quite fine.

Don't think anyone can tell you for sure what's the best since we cannot know the future, it's part of life to take this kind of "big" decision, good luck though

@CoolerThings: don't think there is a "rule" on increment when promotion, it's all depends of your company, your boss and your negotiation skill.
If people doing the same job as your's are getting higher salary, then you can try to bring up this issue to your boss, otherwise you can consider leaving or staying in this company but look for job etc.
Or wait next increment time and at this time say something like "I have now proven for X months I can do same job as senior people so I would like to have the same type of salary as they have"

@gunh: offers seems pretty similar to me really, 200rm is a bit low to jump ship in my opinion so for me it would falls to stuff like location, company (one is MNC, other SME), your current boss/colleagues and how much you comfortable with them, is your job now nice or not etc.

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Aug 28 2010, 01:50 PM

Yar, true, I missed that point, sorry!
Which actually would make me consider the new offer in a much better light.
I would consider one less day of work per week for (almost) the same salary a big increase of my per hour salary.
And free time is in my opinion worth a lot since I don't think my whole life is for working.

If you combine this with the other small advantages (more leaves and petrol in new job), that would maybe make me jump ship.

Guess it all depends of the possible opportunities you think you may have in your current company compared to the new offer, if really you think the SME is better in the long run, it might be something to consider also.