Don’t fall trap to Indian IT companies with 3.5 LPA package in 2023 !!

hey guys, I'm interviewing at a startup currently and they are asking me if I can work 6 days a week for a couple of months initially till the Product goes live. how do I respond to this? I want to take the offer but the 6 day work week is what pulling me back from accepting the offer.

i'm a '23 cse grad - offered 60LPA (fixed) + variable (up to 3x of base) as a quant researcher. this offer is strictly "off-campus" (i come from a tier-3 college) and is a result of me switching careers. am i high-balled? low-balled? note: i used to make 30-40LPA as a freelance writer in college before this.

What does unemployment around you look like? Or if not around us, for people trying to come out of Tier 2/3 towns. These mass recruiters (behemoths like Capgmeni & Cognizant + TCS Infosys) are actually the gateway for many into a city life. In the absence of it, it's scary to think what they're up to.

The company did around 10-15% silent layoffs in the last cycle by putting people in PIP. My Manager told me that he has pressure on him to put at least 1 or 2 people in PIP, make them leave the company and reduce costs. Later, the company did as low an appraisal as 2%. Senior folks are leaving specifically Frontend Developers. Salaries of a lot of SDE-2 are below 30 LPA. They have started new positions called Product Developers which will do the same work as SDEs but with a lesser package. PD-1 salary is around 10-12 lakhs and of Lead PD is 20-22 lakhs. The company is putting itself in a position where it wants people to leave on their own. There are almost zero perks in the company. The team outing budget is a joke which is 2k INR per person per year. That is 500 rupees per person per quarter. Also making office mandatory from November.

I am a java developer with 2.2 years of experience. CURRENT SALARY - 4.2LPA Skills sets: Java Spring boot Microservices AWS Docker Kubernates ## HOW MUCH SALARY SHOULD I ASK??????

Does IT support have these kind of salaries!?!? Damn she was from tier 2 University

1. Hire engineers in the 4th semester from tier 2 colleges. 2. Train them for 6 months in software development by inducing a full time position with an attractive salary once after a full time conversation. Training is Most probably self learning . 3. Pay peanuts during training time as low as 5000 rs per month. Till he completes the college degree i e 15 months after employment. 4. after 6 months of training search leads by inflating the experience of their profile in Indian software companies. And bill them with 50x of what they are getting as a stipend. 5. Earn fat and easy once the person graduates the college lays them off stating the economic situation . 6. Then repeat the same process again with another set of college students. 7. Now laid off graduates are in a position where they can't even show the experience which they gained during their work since it is not done in a full time role. No experience certificate from the employer. 8. Then goes back to a job search as a fresher