I received a 70% hike when the previous startup I was working in secured a series B funding. The appraisal was after 1.5 years. Then again, my CTC was <20L. The higher your CTC, the lesser the percentage hike would be.

Software Engineer

The employee strength wasn’t huge, so can’t say the name. Sorry. 
  
 It was a startup in the recruitment/staffing space.

Growth And Strategy

Can you provide some reasons/experiences?

Growth Manager

Certainly, good hike would be based on individual performance and general hikes in terms of baseline would be decided based on companies overall performance. So hikes has nothing to do with funding. But no hikes can be related to funding.

Lawyer

It depends. If the employees are already well paid then maybe not. Otherwise they might give an above average hike. Will follow this thread to learn what happens

Product Owner

Perfios recently received a funding of 230 million dollars. For the employees who didn't have ESOPs or benefit from the ESOPs, would there be a good salary hike associated here?  How has the apprai...

Perfios recently received a funding of 230 million dollars. For the employees who didn't have ESOPs or benefit from the ESOPs, would there be a good salary hike associated here?

How has the appraisal been in other companies following a round of funding?

Does a round of startup funding lead to a good hike during appraisal?

Does a round of startup funding lead to a good hike during appraisal?- Grapevine

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Hello all! 
I am working as HR Head in a growth stage startup in Bangalore. So many people here talk about compensation, culture, growth etc. Happy to answer questions related to HR/Culture/Startups.

People & Culture Manager

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Hey folks, 
Got a full time offer as an APM and they offered: 
1. 10 LPA Base
2. 1 lakh Retention Bonus (will be given in the first month) 
3. 1 lakh ESOPS

Should I accept or negotiate for more? If I negotiate, which component should I negotiate and how much? 

Thanks in advance.

APM Fresher Salary

Product Manager

I recently interviewed at an MNC and my interviews went great. They also gave a case study.
At the time of final negotiation for salary, i asked for standard 40-45% hike. However they took some time and came back with an offer of almost 95%-100% and literally more than that if i include yearly fixed bonus component.

This was a big surprise to me, and they states that we have done this taking care of pay parity, etc.

I am very happy, 
However, i want to know is this common or happened with anyone else?
Are there such good companies, people and HRs...

Anyone having any thoughts on this?

Has this happened with anyone where you are offered more salary than what you asked for?

Equity Research

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A startup which raised its first round of funding and I might join as product leader. What can I expect as in hand and esops?

What salary can I expect if I’m joining recently funded startup.

I’m considering joining as a founding engineer at an early stage startup who is just about to sign a $4M seed round.

They offered to match my current base and a $20,000 in ESOPs. 

When joining at such early stage companies, how should I think of ESOPs so that I can better negotiate. I’m banking on this idea going big and I want to get as much ESOPs as possible to maximise my returns in the future.

ESOPs in early stage startups

I'm part of a sales team at a Series A startup  that recently secured new funding. I have made a vital contribution to the revenue created. Aiming for a 30% hike (on the fixed) in the upcoming appraisal – any tips on how to approach it?

Appraisal

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I have 6 years experience. My current base/fixed is 60 LPA. (I also got a 5 lakh bonus and 5 lakh of my ESOPs vested this year making my total vested about 30 lakh. So the total comp is 70). 

I'm being offered a senior engineer position in an early stage startup (as part of the founding engineer team). They haven't given an offer yet.

Being early stage, the emphasis will most likely be on ESOPs. How do I evaluate this and set my expectations? (If I were to switch to a mature company, I believe the hikes usually are between 15-20%? How does this work for early stage startups?)

Salary expectation at early stage startup

Hi, I got an offer from a Series B startup and they are giving me 3000 shares of ESOPs vested over 4 years. Right now the value of each shares are worth $5 and has a potential to grow after new funding rounds this year. I feel 3000 shares is less and want to negotiate for more. 

In your experience can anyone tell me how much ESOPs (shares) have you received from new startups? And was it benefecial in the long run?

Any input is appreciated.

How much ESOPs should I ask from a Series B startup?

Analyst

About me: 25M working in a super early stage startup for 1yr.

The startup is only 2 yrs old with seed funding. 2 pivots, but none worked. The 3rd pivot is interesting and we still don't know if it'll work 


I want to understand the life of an Early employee, how do you manage to keep hope, or when to call it quits?

Have vested esops. Also feel if I can get 1.5X cash salary if i switch

When to quit an early stage startup

Biz dev role, full time engagement, equity. DTC exposure is must. 

Right now we are in product development & testing early pmf phase. 

Matching salary.

Product - A SAAS solution for non tech savvy DTC brands to reduce their ad spend upto 40% through influencer led sales. 

Problem - Indian D2C brands spend $7b every year on ad spend only to achieve < 2% retention and <2 ROAS. This is because there is no other way other than ad spend to acq. customers. 

Core team in place - 2 engineers, 1 COO, 1 CTO & 1 PM. Enough cash to survive till pre-seed and get to early pmf.

Raising pre-seed now to onboard 100 DTC brands. 

Founders: ex-Microsoft, Pixis, Swiggy, Zomato, Udaan, Rapido

Equity you get will yield following -

At the end of yr. 5:
Best case exit for you: ~7-9cr.
Avg case: 3-5cr.
Worst case: 60L-1cr. 

Along with equity from starting day. You will keep on getting more and more ESOP rewards linked to value creation (revenue, growth, unlocking  partnerships) or annual cash bonus (% of the value added).

Looking for a biz dev co-founder with DTC exposure

Founder

Consider this scenario:

A well established publicly trading company is giving you $45000 (120 units) worth of RSUs, with vesting schedule of 4 years. The work culture seems stressful (asked from ex employees) and they have a 4 day work from office where they track your badge attendence. 

And a Series B startup is giving you $45000 (9000 units) worth of ESOPs with vesting schedule of 4 years. It has scope to go for Series C and D fundings and even IPO in 4-5 years. The company is flexible in remote/office setting and has some perks like: once a quarter a selected Monday will be holiday, yearly offsite to exotic places.

Which one would you prefer RSUs or ESOPs? and why? Kindly explain why your preferences.

ESOPs or RSUs? Which would you choose?

Work as the only SPM at a seed startup in SaaS. 
Salary is 45 lpa and 12 lakhs of ESOP over 4 years . 

Only PM reporting to the CEO and we have doubled revenue in the last 12 months I have been here and contributing . 

I think I got low balled on the ESOP , appraisal discussions are around the corner and I would like to increase the ESOP 

What is the an average number ? 
Have seen the product folks report and 30lps seems to be the right number .
Looking for other similar folks to advise

ESOP and Salary advise

I am in discussion with some very early stage startup and if things work out then will be part of the founding team. They have promised to give me same salary as the current company’s salary but give ESOP. Is ESOP worth it if you are founding team member?

The founder has sold his previous company so higher chance of success it looks to me.

Is there any case where person made huge money on ESOP?

Are ESOP worth it? Did it make anyone billionaire?

Engineering Manager

Hi all,

As the title suggests, I want to know if there are consequences associated with quitting a company in just 3 weeks.

I've joined an early stage startup as one of the first few hires in the product team. The pay and work is reasonably okay. WLB is also good. But one of the companies I was interviewing during my NP from called me back, conducted one more interview and now I have a better offer in hand. This new company is a fintech giant and objectively it makes no sense for me leave this offer. 

I'm stuck in a situation now where I'm getting super anxious to initiate this conversation with my current manager about leaving in just 3 weeks. Can someone help me with this? Please share your experiences if possible. 

Thanks a lot.

Can I leave a company after just 3 weeks of joining?

How’s 10-15% annual hike after basically building the whole feature set for the company. Are the markets really bad for startups too, or are they using the big tech layoffs as an excuse

Does a round of startup funding lead to a good hike during appraisal?

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