So, what type of work are you doing in embedded? If you are okay with moving to Chennai check out the job board of e-con systems.

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Hi everyone, I've been working as an embedded system engineer at a startup for almost two years. I'm not satisfied with my salary and the work, I'm looking at other options for me but I am not able...

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Hi everyone, I've been working as an embedded system engineer at a startup for almost two years. I'm not satisfied with my salary and the work, I'm looking at other options for me but I am not able to figure out where to apply, there are a couple of startups but they don't pay as much and big companies don't ever respond to messages or applications.

Kinda lost here, wondering what to do.

My current TC is 10LPA and I am looking to get at least 15 LPA.

Career prospects for an embedded systems engineer

Embedded Engineer

Career prospects for an embedded systems engineer- Grapevine

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Ask me anything! I work in engineering and I’m happy to answer any questions you might have on what it’s like to work in a startup.

This one’s for the startup people

Founder

You all might obviously guess that I'm speaking about the other two posts in which each of them in their early 20s making 50+ LPA and 70+ LPA respectively.

Honestly curious, how do these guys get paid so much? I feel like salaries in IT industry are heavily inflated.

I'm from EEE background, trying so hard to find a job in Data field. I've previously worked in my field for 3 years, but the growth seemed pretty less in the long run, hence the switch.

Finding a job as a fresher (in IT industry) is so hard man. I'm mainly looking for the startups. 

They either ask for experience, or the pay is very similar to what I made previously in my field. (which is <10 LPA). 

Above all, I'm not even getting responses from companies for my applications. 

So yeah, how do people in their 20s make so much in the IT industry? Is it only FAANGand big corps or applicable to startups as well (like unicorns etc)???

How do you people make so much in your 20s?

Data Analyst

I started at a pre-rev startup for 10K per month internship as an app developer when I was in my 7th semester of engineering. By the 8th semester, i became a full time employee for 6LPA. That was about 12 months ago. I have great rapport with my CTO and CEO. I received an offer for 8LPA from a well known company, my current employer matched it. I received a counter offer for 11 LPA (10+1). Even though I like the people i don't feel overly optimistic about this given the market circumstances. Should I make the switch? Really very confused.

I'm really confused

I am looking for a frontend engineer role, and I want to change my current company. The problem is only a handful of companies give the TC I have with 3 YOE, enough jobs are still in the market but not in the range of TC 40lpa+ I am looking for.
At this point I don't want to get lowballed and just accept any company offer just because I want to leave my current company.
Any leads would be appreciated 


YOE : 3
TC : 40lpa

Any good company still hiring?

Software Engineer

Lets discuss here our current CTC and YoE along with Designation. More experience people will tell us if need to switch. Mine is 13.1 LPA with 6 Years and 4 months of experience.

Mention your current CTC with Years of experience. People will tell if need to switch.

UX/UI Designer

Team Lead

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Hi got an opportunity at an early stage startup for lead engineer role I’ll be looking at the whole back end n also leading few engineers 
Want get an idea of what is the salary range of lead engineers in Indian startup’s 

Current Ctc 40 base + 22 RSU 

Hopeful I’ll be getting a hike

Lead Engineer Salary Range in Pre Seed Startup

Software Developer

As a Senior Consultant with 5 years of experience in Data Science and Analytics, I'm on the lookout for a role that truly values my expertise. 
My current position feels limiting in terms of compensation and growth, especially with international client exposure. I'm eager to explore opportunities offering minimum 18-20 LPA, preferably with projects that engage with international clients.

To brief about myself, I’m Senior Consultant at PwC with 5 years of total experience in Analytics.

Seeking opportunities in. Analytics with Good hike and Global Exposure

Senior Consultant

What should I am for?
- A well named startup or company at slightly lower pay?

- A high payed salary from the startup or a company that no one ever heared of...

Example:
Currently I am making 12 LPA as a marketer.
But I am worried about my future as I am finding it tougher to get hired for salary anything above than this. 

How about working at a fancy startup? (meesho, sugar, CRED, etc.) at a lower pay like 10 LPA - will it secure my future? As people prefer to hire ex-employee from these fancy startups. 

Or should I be searching for a 15 LPA or 20 LPA job but from a company or startup that no one ever heard about, adding no value to my CV while working there

What should I choose?

I am currently working at an early stage startup as a software engineer and have been working here since around couple of years full time and an internship prior to that. I am getting a decent salary and the work environment is also good.

But While I write this, I have started feeling stagnated and bored at work and feel that I am not growing in career. This is one reason that has led to me start slacking off at work and take long time to complete tasks.😓

However, I don't want this to continue and thus am here for advice. I am trying to apply to various companies but only to receive rejections. Not even getting an interview call. I am planning to prepare for MBA and the exam is in November. But since folks usually prepare for MBA alongwith job so it means I should continue my job if I want to do so which is another problem for me. I am even confused if I want to an MBA since only the product management role out of it attracts me and not the consulting/investment banking once. So I am not sure if I should even do an MBA. 😒

I discussed this with my parents and they asked me to leave job and prepare for UPSC. Honestly, I have some interest in the exam and the job is great as well no doubt but being 26 years old I am not fully sure of taking this call  since it involves a lot of risk.

All this has been causing lot of conundrum in my brain and it would be really helpful if anyone can suggest any things that I am missing out or that can be simplified.🙏

Looking for career advice

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Currently at a startup, what are great exit options for 40l+ CTC (2 yoe Consulting+Startup). Also if anyone hiring- let me know.

Career Advice

Growth Manager

I work as a software engineer (Backend) at a startup ( valued over $200m). 
Most of my revolves around designing and building applications using python based frameworks (Django, flask, fast api). 
Integrating AI models to the backend, not so exciting but yeah I do.
Also, deploying them in Google cloud and setting up the cloud infrastructure. 
Occasionally I do write load testing scripts using Gatling.
At times I feel like I'm not doing any deep tech work and I'm bored. Most of the days I have zero motivation to do anything. 

How's the life of people doing deep tech at work?
What am I missing? What should I focus on?
I wonder if I'm underpaid at times (18 lpa) (exp - 4yrs).

How should I move forward with regards to my career?

Feeling like I'm stuck

Hello all

I work as a software developer at a seed -> acquired startup. Total work ex is around 1.5years. I am looking for a change now. 
Till now I have applied to some bigger companies with referrals and some through job portals, only got one call till now after applying at many of them.

I want to switch gears in my application now as I want to switch as soon as possible. The next step would be cold emailing decent startups. 

Could you guys help me with my approach to cold emailing and share some best practices? I don't have much experience doing cold emails because I've gotten previous jobs either through campus/angellist like sites.

PS: The number of calls/applications is making me a bit anxious
I've tried dropping LinkedIn connect messages to a lot of recruiters and engineering managers but no luck

Job Hunt

TLDR;

Did B.Tech in ECE from a tier 3 college. In college, explored different avenues and finally found deep learning and computer vision to be the most interesting. Did lots of projects, research paper etc. However, being from a tier 3 college, making a career in this domain wasn’t easy. Graduated in 2020, joined a startup as an intern with a stipend of 35k per month. 6 months later, the internship didn’t convert, although I worked really hard and my manager liked my work.
Joined another startup with a salary of 6.5LPA. Although I had better offers, I decided to go with this one ad they were providing WFH (it was peak covid time). A few months into this startup, I realised the founder had no goal, no vision, was given random  vague projects, founders would pick up any project that their client would somehow talk about, assign it to me without doing any market research, and few months later scratch that. I realised, there was no future here, and for no reason, one of the founder kept micromanaging me (although the colleagues and seniors were great). And by that time, I also realised I was severely underpaid, as one of my close friend, who was a year junior to me was paid higher. I decided to leave that place, during a time of mass resignations in 2022 (the founders did try to retain me, but I was adamant as I didn’t see any vision and founder was too rigid to listen to anyone). I worked there for 1.3 years, at the same salary.

Later on in August 2022, I joined a series C funded startup, with a base pay of 14.5LPA, at nearly 2 YOE. While the hike was well above 120%, in some time I realised that this was the salary that they paid to IIT campus hires. Felt a little demotivated, Also, the culture here isn’t exactly good and sometimes gets quite toxic. However, I kept commited to my work, and come March 2023, I got a 10% appraisal, for which the VP personally had a conversation, I conveyed that I had higher expectations considering I joined at lower pay (1/n)

Hardwork and consistency pays off

The VP did agree to that, and my manager and VP had a few conversations around this topic from time to time. A week back, VP called me and congratulated me, saying that he decided to do a off cycle appraisal for me and gave me 26% appraisal, making my base pay 20LPA. I was on cloud 9. I didn’t arm twist my company, nor did I even ask for a higher pay, I was offered it right away. 
  
 Now many of you might say, dude whats the big deal. People with 2 YOE make 69LPA. Well, good for them. But I just wanted to write this post, To convey that don’t get disappointed when you see such CTC polls on grapevine. Everyone has their time. I’ve had many other failures, I keep trying to move to PM role(after working in startups, eventually gained interest), appeared for CAT(didn’t score that well), tried many things to come out of this tier 3 college status and make a career for myself. Just keep working hard, stay committed to your skills, good Karma, and success will surely follow you.

Machine Learning Engineer

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?

Downball?

I am a DevOps Engineer in a series C funded startup.
My current compensation is 40LPA, which included 38LPA fixed, and 2LPA performance bonus.
I want to understand what my realistic expectations should be if I look out for another job.
I am open to all types of companies, be it a MNC or a well established startup.
I can be wrong by a huge margin, but I was expecting somewhere around 75LPA CTC with 70LPA fixed, given the fact that my promotion is due this upcoming December and I am expecting atleast 20% hike on my current CTC and in hand compensation.
What are your thoughts on this.
And if possible, can you guys also tell me what I should be prepared for if I get an interview opportunity for a senior level DevOps Engineer.

Salary expectation for a DevOps Engineer with 3+ YOE

DevOps Engineer

Role : SDE 1, backend
YOP: 1.5 years

TLDR : I've received a job offer from a startup in Bengaluru with a base package of 14LPA. This opportunity came through a connection who holds a senior position in the company. Currently, I'm employed at an early-stage startup with a small team, working on a great product, with a package of 10LPA.

The story behind this: 
I was laid off from my previous company due to their financial issues. At that time, I informed my manager to keep me in mind for any future opportunities. Subsequently, I joined a smaller startup with a 20% increase in salary as a SDE 1. I am happy with my work-life balance and satisfied with my role in building a successful product with a substantial customer base.

Recently, my previous manager, now in a senior position at a mid-sized startup, referred me for a role. Although my second-round interview didn't go perfectly, I've been offered the position based on his positive feedback, and they are offering me a base salary of 14LPA.

I have responsibility in my current company and my resignation will effect their timeline. also i don't want to ruin my connection with my manage also who offered me the new job.

I'm uncertain about what decision to make. Any advice?

Need advice. Which company to choose.

I am not looking for job but was I curious that how much can I get an offer of in CTC for a SDE role at a startup with this resume.

I have just graduated but I have been building apps from last 3.5 years.

For more context, here is my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theishangoswami

Ps: I am pretty good at dev, not so much at dsa.

How Much Can I Get Paid With This Resume?

Feeling stagnant in my tech support job having 6.5 years of experience, currently working in Bosch. Contemplating resigning to pursue software development engineering roles after upskilling myself. Would appreciate any insights or advice from the community on making this career transition. Thanks in advance!

Seeking Advice: Transitioning from Tech Support to SDE Roles after resigning

Senior Engineer

Hi, I’m looking to make my first job switch. I have about 1 year 10 months of experience (2021 grad). If you know any company which is hiring right now and can offer >22L for my yoe, please provide the name in comments.

Current TC: 15L

Thanks!

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