Why? Pay what you can or just say no
A lot of Indian companies have a pathological drive to always try and lowball candidates.
Sometimes I even jokingly tell recruiters that my expectation in 1000 crores, obviously you cannot pay that, so offer me your budget
@redchillies7 I do that! "We have an open budget" "Budget is not a problem"
I ask, can you pay me 1 Cr?
"No no, we were thinking like 7LPA"
🤦‍♀️
Companies don’t really know how to gauge how valuable an engineer is so they use their last salary as a proxy to determine their worth.
Stopped applying to Indian companies altogether due to such terrible experience. Same lingo as usual. Plus ghosting is normal now, they dragged a process from July 5 (screening call) to Nov first week (final boss/hiring manager).
Had multiple followups from my end in between.
All this while the HR person who first contacted me hopped jobs (I only came to know it after her replacement contacted me 2 months later), my mails bounced when I tried to contact her post the assignment submission, expecting a calendar invite for the final round.
Long story, I know. But rant over.
Bullet dodged!
Wouldn't wish it upon anyone. Especially the bit on bounced emails while following up.
In relation to compensation, they asked me to justify x% hike on my previous CTC, yet their only response was "we'll let you know". P.S. They closed the position in late December.
Shit I'm in middle of something like this. Assignment done, replied will get back in 24 hours - it's 48 hours to that 24
I can see the pattern now
You should hear people obsession with why did someone leave their last job. Dear HR you have requirement means just focus on hiring and retention.
Recently a company called me and told me that they are not moving through with me - not because of my skills, they really liked me but they are not convinced of my reason for leaving. I wonder why they conducted interviews then and wasted my time and hopes.
They will burn in hell
Many Indian companies don’t have compensation as a function/role within the HR deptt. The typical mindset is to “negotiate” rather paying for the skills.
My simple rule is - The moment HR caller says “open-budget”, means the role isn’t thought through and mostly will be going with “negotiation” mindset.
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