Yes it depends a lot on the context but in my personal experience which I realised late is that to grow you have to keep switching once in a while (not saying every year or at any other fixed frequency).

Software Test- QA

I agree. Shared this to bring another perspective. May not happen with everyone but I know people who have grown a lot with time in same company. Compensation wise they are adjusted when they climb up the ladder.

Product Manager

Loyalty in Personal Life ✅

Loyalty in Personal Life ✅- Grapevine

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I am and Android application developer with 10 years of experience. I am working in Tech Mahindra since 2017 Oct. 

They are paying me just 9LPA , paying 18 approx to new joinees with half of my experience. 

Management assured me that my salary would be revised but it didn't. 

I am sad about what happened to me.

Pay parity - Tech Mahindra

Tech lead

Tell us how and when you realised that you need to move away from the people around you for your betterment.


There's a saying, "You're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with."
This unknowingly shaped us for periods.

🧵 when did you realise to change your circle

Growth Manager

I was in Zomato , and they laid me off in Nov last year. Now, my ex-manager called me to join the team as they have an opening now. Should I join again?

Joining company which laid me off

I remember during tech boom, almost every one was jumping jobs every 6months. I am at mid senior level in my company and some of us who did not hopped jobs where consider failure. 
We had very hard time retaining people around. Now been more than a year and no one is resigning. Wonder will developers learn if another cycle of boom comes in.

Developer made market worst.

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

How did your personal life affect your professional life ? Share your positive/ negative experiences.

I am a software engineer with 1 year of professional experience and about 2 years of experience counting all my freelance gigs as well as internships.

I’ve identified that I’m good at picking up new technologies easily. I’m also very detail oriented and tend to find the moat optimal solutions even though my current position only expects me to follow the PRD provided by my tech lead.

I find that most of the times, I have had to raise my concerns to my seniors for a change of an approach with me being correct almost all the time by the end of the discussion.

Now I feel confused, that maybe I was being underestimated and therefore underpaid by my employer.

Context: I switched to this company about 6 months ago with a package of 12 LPA and got a mere 5% hike to 12.65 LPA during last month with a promotion from being a technical associate -> software development engineer.
During my meeting with the manager, i was told that my performance was ‘very good’ but since its been only 6 months, they are giving me a promotion to match my skills but not give me a good hike.

Any thoughts?

CTC check

Software Developer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

The current startup tech employees and founders are filled with so much junkies who do not care about the product at all.

The culture is set when the startup is founded,when the first set of employees arrive.  These folks are some of the most driven and talented and that's fine, it's how it should be.

But the problem begins when these folks do not find their own hiring strategy and copy the hiring strategy of other companies.

Instead of analysing what works best for them they justify their hiring means by saying this is what other have done.

The result is you get a bunch of leetcode warriors who are always wanting to jump ships when given opportunity, never forming deep knowledge about their industry and their product.

I work in one of the legacy tech companies, sure we do not hire the best people but we nurture them and that earns loyalty and long careers in our company. 

Even the employees have a very 360 degree view wrt product. We always deeply care about our product. 

Tbh I love seeing the stupidity of the market and it makes me happy that more confident that these people are wrong and always will be. 

Even the Indian startups are unoriginal and copied from the west then how do you expect the hiring to be unique. We are all living in the circus where jokers are supporting each other in making the circus bigger.

A rant on startups

Software Engineer

Timely completion is better than delayed perfection!

read that again.

Corporate lesson learnt in 20s #1

Consultant

I'm 22 and like 6 months into my first, I really love what I'm working on and what I'm being compensated for that. But whenever I ask anyone whats their plan is they say mostly switch within 1-2 years, especially freshets who were selected along with me, and surprisingly almost no one here is from pre-covid.

Does everyone switch jobs as often as it seems?

Hi everyone, let me tell you a fact regarding TCS.

In 2022 I was part of a technical interview panel and select a candidate. As it was a virtual session, HR was also present. Once I selected that guy HR discussed about the salary. You dont belive in same technology having less than 5 years of experience than me HR agreed to offer a package which is 30% more than my package. I understood the loyal value of my employment being there for more than 7 years. Its really demotivates me in terms of everything and now i hv decided to leave TCS and untill i am there in TCS wont take any interview atleast.

TCS doesn't care about its loyal employee.

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