Salary is more or less the same. They are funded but again just a lot of lay offs.

You can consider factors like 
 - if they did layoffs previously 
 - did they get any funding recently. If not when was the last time they got funding and how much. 
  
 In my personal opinion, as it's a unicorn that too in the fintech domain you should join without worrying much.

Product Manager

All high growth jobs will have a lot of work. The least you should want from it is to enjoy doing it.  
  
 I would honestly even consider taking a slight hit on pay for intellectual stimulation and feeling of learning something new. Go for it bro.

Founder

Depends on the company and difference in salary. If they’re well funded, you should be safe. If not, tread with caution

Software Engineer

I interned at a fintech unicorn as a PM Intern in my 3rd year and wasn't able to get a return offer because of hiring freeze. I joined a relatively stable MNC as an analyst thru campus but don't re...

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I interned at a fintech unicorn as a PM Intern in my 3rd year and wasn't able to get a return offer because of hiring freeze. I joined a relatively stable MNC as an analyst thru campus but don't really enjoy the job and there's no intellectual stimulation as well. Doing work here feels like a chore whereas I really enjoyed working at the unicorn. 

Now, the previous company had reached out to me and offering me a position. How should I proceed, really scared of layoffs as I have an education loan.

Confused, please help

Confused, please help- Grapevine

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Hello everyone,

I'm reaching out for advice on a challenging situation I'm facing regarding my employment bond. Here's what happened:

During my college placement, I was selected by a company for a developer role with a promised CTC of 3 LPA. Two days later, I was called to their office where the HR informed me that the CTC was "up to" 3 LPA, not exactly 3 LPA. Despite this, I accepted the offer and signed a bond for two years (including a six-month internship), also providing a cheque for 1 Lac as a security deposit.

Now, as my internship is nearing completion, there's a final review meeting scheduled where they will restructure the CTC. During my internship, I learned from existing employees that the company is notorious for poor salary growth and minimal hikes. I feel trapped by the "up to" scheme and am worried about my future with this company.

I'm seeking advice on how to navigate this situation and, if possible, save my 1 Lac cheque. Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Seeking advice on employment bond

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I am currently doing an SDE Internship in one of the startups in gurugram. Initially I was given a 6 month intern + full time offer, all went well, but in the last month this company is revoking full time offers of some interns  and extending the intern offer to 3-4 months. What should I do in this case ? I am literally scared right now?

Unfair practices in startup revoking FT offer

Software Developer

I recently completed my MBA from one of a premier B School, and I am a fresher,was placed in a fintech company and was supposed to join them previous month.
They are doing layoff and has extended our joining with no guarantee as of now. With placements of my college over, I am stuck in this market with no job and a lot of uncertainties, please let me know if there’s any potential opportunity at your company.

Placement offer - Revoked

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Hi all, I am a 2023 ECE graduate from one of the top engineering colleges of Delhi. I had already been a part of the rat race once and didn't wanna join it again for coding jobs, so I took my chance & started looking for non tech jobs. 


In my second year of engineering, I worked with a NGO for their Marketing and PR Relations. After that, I worked for a startup and handled all their backend operations.


Just after completing my final year exams, I joined the core strategy department of a unicorn for a 3-month internship+PPO offer as a Strategy Analyst, but due to funding crunch, the CTC after PPO is gonna be 4 times less than than what it could have been, my manager already had discussions with HR regarding pay but in the name of cost cutting & winter coming to the startup world, everything's a fail, 


I was going to stay and take a pay cut as I liked my work, my colleagues were helpful and there was a lot to learn, but everyone advised me not to take a pay cut as then I would face difficulties with a pay hike. Now I have completed my 3-month internship and am looking out for new roles. I am open to roles like Program Manager, Business Analyst, Operations Analyst.

Job hunt

Security Analyst

Hello everyone,  So I am an ML intern and a 2024 cs graduate, I have been doing internships since 3rd year of my engineering  and right now I am interning at an startup since 1 year and I don't have any full time offer as of now and the startup where I am interning is also not talking about full time offer, so what should I do now, ask for increment in stipend, ask for full time offer(talked to them in December, HR told will see when in April may, when we will raise funding, he also added "consider that you will not get" but I still kept interning) or keep applying at other places?

Should I ask for increase in stipend as I have completed 1 year?

My offer (from a FAANG company) has been deferred to January 2024. I don't know what to do now: 
 
1) I have another job offer (~8 LPA), but that job requires me to serve notice period of 2-3 months 
 
2) A startup's founder rejected me, saying he wanted someone for long term (he thought I'll leave next January)  
 
Should I try for full time jobs? Many companies become unwilling to take me in, presuming that I will leave in January 2024. 
 
Or should I look for internships (even though I have graduated)? Getting an internship won't help mitigate the risk of not having a fulltime job offer after graduation though.

Offer deferred, don't know what to do

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I am Interning at a very early stage startup in the Growth Team. My stipend is ₹15,000 p/m and the work is decent - community mgmt, content, product gamification & market research. It’s a pre-seed startup so sometimes I feel lack of resources are putting a cap on my abilities to execute. Though, the founder has assured that we’re close to raising pre seed. I am pretty good friends with the Founder and I’ve met him a few times.
Now, coming to the main part of problem - I casually applied for an Internship in a early stage startup but the team is sorted. They have funds and their founding team is super experienced. Stipend offered is 2x of what I’m getting.
I was wondering If I should opt for that? Or, keep my head down and work for the same startup, ignoring the money aspect? Pls lmk folks.

Optimise for Work or Money?

I am a 2023 graduate and I have joined the company in 2022 as Software Development Intern. I have completed my internship and working as a full time. The environment of the company is very toxic and there is too much politics (even in getting user stories).
I want to switch company so badly, but i don't know why I am not getting interview calls and revert back from any company.
I daily apply for atleast 2-3 companies, I have good profile on leetcode, good projects.

Can someone please guide me what should I do to make a switch.

What should I do?

Hello everyone, I am an ML Engineer Intern and have been doing full time internship since past 1.5 years, will be completing one year in June at current company, so the thing is I will be graduating in 10 days and the company is still not talking about PPO, so what should I do now? I don't have another offer as I did not sit for on campus placement because no good companies were coming and I am earning more or approximately equal to most of the companies paying for full time in college.

Now I am a bit scared as I will be graduating and still don't have a full time offer, I am the guy in college where everyone used to tell that I will grab the highest package and here I am in this uncertainty whether I will get full time offer from current company or not. I have worked very hard, even worked late nights and even on weekends and still they are bot talking about PPO and I am applying off campus but there are not many openings for freshers or 2024 graduate even though I have more practical knowledge and skills, so what should I do now, continue as an intern till I get full time or what should I do? I know Python,  ML, DL, NLP, tensorflow, pytorch, django, javascript, GO, Docker, linux and I am a very good learner too. So if anyone of you can help then it will be good, I have posted before also on this platform but have not received any help, though got couple of referral but they were of other profile or required  more experience and hence got rejected without even an OA. So please refer me or give advice what should I do next?

About to graduate in 10 days and still an Intern.

Hello everyone, 

A little context: I have full-time experience of around 2 years and actively looking for a job switch. I recently applied to a top company and got an offer to intern there for a few months. It's extremely hard for tier-3 students to get a call back from this company so the offer is a little tempting. 

I believe that this will be a great learning experience in efficient and scalable system design and implementation. As far as the financial aspect goes, the stipend alone is ~75% higher than my current pay and the perks more than make up for my total comp. However, this is potentially temporary since there is no guarantee of a full-time offer and it requires me to relocate to a new city. 

Side note, my past experiences have been short-term engagements due to both voluntary or involuntary reasons. In case this doesn't convert, will recruiters classify my profile as a job hopper?

I would love any suggestions on this situation. Thanks! 

TLDR; looking for suggestions on whether I should leave my full-time job to pursue an internship at a top company after 2 years of full-time experience.

Should I go back for an internship?

I am a final year CS student and will be graduating this June. In my first and second year I used to code like 9 to 10 hours a day and learn new skills and thanks to that I was able to grep an internship in start of 6th sem and since then I am doing internships and its been 1.5 years and I have done 2 internships, one as an backend developer for 6 months and another as an ML Engineer for 10 months and I am still interning over here and I have learned a lot and have worked on many amazing projects, now the problem is my current company told that they will give me full time offer if they receive the funding in April or may and HR told me to consider this as no and now the CEO of my previous internship called me and asked me if I am willing to join there for full time and I told him I am waiting for the offer from here and  he told me that he will try to match the offer but I don't want to join the older company as there the culture is toxic and I also don't have other offer to negotiate as I did not sit for on campus placement as I am getting paid more as an intern(50k per month) then the full time offers the companies are giving on campus. Now in 2 months I will be graduating and still I don't have full time offer and now I feel like all the sacrifices I made in my first and second year went in vain, all the hard work, consistency, missing parties and trips all these things now makes me sad, where did I went wrong and what should I do now?

Confused and bit scared need Advice

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Graduated from NMIMS in 2023- BSc Finance. Interned at some marquee IB firms and startups. 

Working at an NBFC in an MD's office role- Strategy Consultant since then.

Having done multiple projects for the company, I now want to switch to a consulting company where I can have a more diversified set of projects. 

But the market being the way it is, I'm not able to find reasonably good opportunities on LinkedIn. 

How do I go about the whole thing then? Would be grateful for any suggestion or referrals.

Looking for some guidance

Consultant

Hello good folks of grapevine, I am very confused with my situation right now. I am currently working at a consumer tech unicorn in a strategy role but really burnt out with the working environment. I have no clarity on my roles and responsibilities which keeps changing every week. I am not learning much either. I am planning to quit without any offer in hand (notice period is 2 months, I have enough to survive 5-6 months). I am an IIT-IIM graduate (old ones). Total YOE ~ 4.5 years across strategy consulting, project management and strategy at current startup. Please suggest. Folks who have quit without any offer in hand, how did it work out for you?

I am very confused and lost. Planning to quit my job without an offer in hand. Need suggestions.

Strategy & Operations

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currently I work in an ai consulting company (<40 folks) with 20+ lpa salary.
recently I got an offer from a big mnc bank for around 15% hike on my total ctc.
I informed my current org yesterday and they have countered me with a 20% hike now. 
I am confused on what to choose.
ps: I have ~5 yoe.

not sure what offer to take

Data Scientist

Hello guys, I am a recent graduate, but I have 2 years of internship experience and I have learned a lot in internship s I joined the startup early and tight now it is more than $1M ARR, but now problem is I they are not giving me full time but getting paid decent.

Now I have got an offer from Turing and the pay is very very good, more than 4 times of what I am getting now and even FAANG does not pay this much, the role is LLM data scientist but the problem is  work is very basic, I will be doing RLHF, that is I will be checking the response of LLM model and giving it feedback to improve it's accuracy, so it's more kind of data annotation type work.


So what you guys tell, should I take this opportunity? I think I will not learn more over here as coding might be minimal but parents and everyone is telling that no one's get this much at start of career so I should take this, but I am confused as I will not learn or gain that much skills, so what should I do??? Please helppp

please help choose between money and type of work

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My background: 2024 grad, intern at an startup in Bengaluru, internship extended for 3 months recession is the reason told, no chance of fte.

Now, getting an offer from a startup. Team of 15-16 people. Pre seed stage startup. Will be building product from scratch. Lots of learning. 
Offering decent hike and since i m part of first team...getting small equity too.

Should I join this offer?

I m confused. But also thinking...it is risky but a lot to learn and growth potential is v high.

Tell what do u guys think??

Need help guys

Data engineer

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Hi I'm currently working on lending side in an Indian Bank. I got offer with a 60% hike in CTC( 30% in fixed). Should I take it as I'm sceptical since the new company is small and not as established.  The new role is with the founder however it does not seem to be structured. my current prospects in the current company are limited to a 15 % appraisal and maybe a promotion

Confused whether to switch.

Corporate Strategist

I am a final-year CS student and will be graduating this June. I have been doing internships since 6th semester. In my first and second year I used to code like 9 to 10 hours a day and learn new skills and thanks to that I was able to grep an internship in start of 6th sem and since then I am doing internships and its been 1.5 years and I have done 2 internships, one as an backend developer for 6 months and another as an ML Engineer for 10 months and I am still interning over here and I have learned a lot and have worked on many amazing projects, now the problem is my current company told that they will give me full time offer if they receive the funding in April or may and HR told me to consider this as no and now the CEO of my previous internship called me and asked me if I am willing to join there for full time and I told him I am waiting for the offer from here and he told me that he will try to match the offer but I don't want to join the older company as there the culture is toxic and I also don't have other offer to negotiate as I did not sit for on campus placement as I am getting paid more as an intern(50k per month) then the full time offers the companies are giving on campus. Now in 2 months, I will be graduating and still, I don't have full-time offer now I feel like all the sacrifices I made in my first and second years went in vain, all the hard work, consistency, missing parties and trips all these things now makes me depressed, where did I go wrong and what should I do now?

Need advice from seniors, please help

I was graduated in August of '22. I was placed in 3 companies during the campus placement drive, out of which one is an MNC and the other two are, let's say pretty famous in India.  But due to bad decision making and other factors I decided to go with the MNC. It's been a while now yet there is no information from the company. The last mail I received was in the month of November, which is why I am afraid now. Are there any internships or job openings I can apply for?

I'm an non IT candidate with decent skills in programming. Are there any courses I can do meanwhile?

Thanks in advance.

Confused, please help

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