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I received an offer with average pay but from a good, growing startup. The role is exactly what I want, and the team consists of very good, brilliant people from Tier 1 and 2 institutes, while I am a Tier 3 institute student. Considering the current market situation and the fact that I don't have any prior internship or work experience, I got the offer based on my technical skills. What should I do? Should I go for it? The on-campus placement companies are nowhere near as good as this one.

One of my friends, who is highly talented and an adept competitive programmer, recently received an offer from "Tech Mahindra" with a package of 3.25 LPA and a 2.5-year service bond. Given the current tough economic climate, should he accept this offer or wait and prepare for better opportunities? Additionally, if anyone can refer him to opportunities in their current company, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help and insights!

My friend is from tier 1 college 2023 batch, currently working in Microsoft as a Software Quality Engineer with 15 LPA, good benefits but bad work life balance. He is thinking about switching to a new company with some benefits on priority. He is good in problem solving and a knight on leet code. What's your opinion on the details below? 1. Role: SDE 2. Minimum CTC : 15 (Base) LPA 3. Work life: Flexible Hours, No strict deadlines, No overtime. 4. Employees Count: 500+ 5. Tech Stack: Any Top Backend framework.

I used to work in a early stage startup. Got selected from campus placement and they provided hefty fix pay(16 lpa) + 16 lpa ( spread across 4 years including esop and bonus) (totally fraud to come on day 0 in IIT). They now fired me. I interview at many startup and they are expecting too much from 6 months experience candidate. I am in between of offer from Deloite but they are only paying (11 lpa fix). What shall i do? According to market shall i take a downball or need to keep patience?

I used to work in a early stage startup. Got selected from campus placement and they provided hefty fix pay(16 lpa) + 16 lpa ( spread across 4 years including esop and bonus) (totally fraud to come on day 0 in IIT). They now fired me. I interview at many startup and they are expecting too much from 6 months experience candidate. I am in between of offer from Deloite but they are only paying (11 lpa fix). What shall i do? According to market shall i take a downball or need to keep patience?

My current salary is 42LPA. I am from IIT, have 7 years of experience and work in product. Honestly, my value in the market is higher than what I’m being paid but I am very demotivated to optimise for that. When I do see less deserving people minting more money, I feel that I am doing injustice to myself and playing the wrong hand. More and more though, the thought of earning more money chokes me a bit. I have dreams of building something of my own - that gives me control to build something my way and freedom to live my life as per my terms. But the mindset of “zyada paisa pareshaani hai” doesn’t leave me. My family also is not dependent on me and whatever is needed from my side, I actively contribute to. I also lack any motivation to focus on my investments and see my money grow. I just have money sitting around in my bank account purely for nothing I also look at my lifestyle choices from time to time and go into existential debate of why we need the things that we do. This has come to a point where I really do not understand my relationship with money and why we earn and spend it. For me at this point, it’s just a show for the world. There’s very little that you need, and really no limit to what you want to show. And I just don’t see a point in it anymore.

A friend of mine just passed 8th sem , so he has 4 offers 1)TCS 3.5lpa ASE 2)Accenture 3.5lpa 3) Wipro 3.5LPA 4) Seed stage startup 4lpa which is better to join in Bangalore?

I am a tier three college student with good coding skills, and as we all know, the market situation is totally messed up. Despite this, I have received one offer of 5 LPA in Surat (startup) for the role of SDE - 1. What should I do? I don’t have any experience or internship offer is based on all interviews rounds and coding skills. Any opinion is it good start !?

My background: Hey! I am in my final year, I did a summer internship at a software firm as a SDE role for 1 lakh stipend. And I got a full time offer for 26 LPA after graduation which will be in May’24 I applied for internship in a startup for working until my graduation, it was for the same role i worked during my internship. During a phone call interview right now, he asked me how much you’ll be expecting when you join full time, so I mistakenly revealed my offer and how much i m expecting. He made me compare the 12 lpa which this startup can give to maximum and 36 lpa which is my ctc offer in another company. I told him that I am ready to do a internship now at a lower money(50k), but after a year, depending on the situations of the startup, we can negotiate on the salary if can get a competitive one. What should I do now? Please give me suggestions on how should I had negotiated, and did i do anything wrong by revealing my another offer from another company.? What should be my next steps?

PhonePe: Designation: Software Engineer Fixed: 29L Joining Bonus: 3L Esop: 20L (vested over 4 years) Team: Pincode Work Location: Bangalore Microsoft: Level: L61(SDE-2) Fixed: 27L Joining Bonus: 2L(1L in 1st year, 1L in second year) Relocation Bonus: 1.62L Bonus: 0-20% based on company performance Stocks: 30K USD Benefits: Standards Microsoft perks Team: webXT team(edge, bing, video performance etc..) Location: Hyderabad Please give your views on this offer. Which is the best. I have a total of 2.5+ yoe.