Hey folks, i hope you all are doing well!
I have around 6 yrs of experience now including 6 months of internship in Enterprise Support role for Kubernetes product in a big Product based MNC.
I have been in the same company for 5.5 years post my internship, within these 5.5 years I switched to our cloud services team like a DevOps role 2 years back.
My role is a Senior Software Engineer but I am not coding much rather its mix of both Operations and Coding sometimes, because of which my development knowledge is rusty and also my DSA too. But I have been able to get things done which are necessary as a part of my daily job. Be it feature development, releases, operations and troubleshooting customer environments. So performance wise Iām doing well I believe. And Iām getting below package.
So I got hikes also the package Iām getting is around (35 LPA Fixed + 5 Lacs bonus) have stocks around 10 lacs(just 2.5 lacs per year)
Now the main point is even though Iām earning sone money
1] Iām not learning much from the software development perspective and I think work wise I donāt have much experience in pure development, so now Iām stuck how can I make a move to a good unicorn startup as a SDE/SRE? Please suggest any ideas to make such a move.
2] I strongly believe that Iām earning less than what I should be earning after spending 6 yrs in IT. Nowadays 3-4 So now Iām thinking of switching to a different company but again the point [1] comes in my way.
3] How much minimum amount of I should be earning as a base salary, bonus and stocks in a big product MNC or a Bangalore startup ?
Looking for advices to learn and which way should I be taking to learn more and get a job where Iāll be doing proper Dev work, please advice on the way to take to do this transition.
Thank you!