At 26 you have 5 years of experience 🧐 
 Damm

‘98 born 
 Passed out of college in 2019

Business Analyst

Software Engineer

Irrespective of your current job, you should ALWAYS be interviewing. Helps you keep sharp and also its fun to give interviews when nothing is at stake. Also increases your surface area of "luck". 
 Stay here, start interviewing, if something  big comes your way go for it.

Also post marriage for atleast 2 years you will need good WLB so stay here. 
 One thing u can do though is get an offer and ask your current employers to increase your pay. Basically a bluff.

If you are planning to get married real soon, I’d suggest to stay in same organization  
 Handling performance pressure of new org while figuring out your newly married life is too much work

Cannot stress enough on this. Once you've figured out marriage, you can make the switch.

Product Manager

Director of Engineering

26 yrs and  5 yoe, 24 L fixed 😲, sometimes I feel which world I am in? Am Having more than 9 yoe, working hard and getting nuts....Laanat hai hamari aisi job pe...hame chullu bhar pani me doob marna chahiye

Human Resources

Continue here for as long as you can.  
  
 Market is against employment right now.

Just assume ESOPs as 0. 
 Are you happy at your current work ? 
 After marriage the first year you should travel a lot. 
  
 In parallel find out what your next job requires, keep learning, keep saving

26Yrs of Age. 24L fixed + 1L Variable + 30L ESOPs 5yrs Exp Domain: Data Looking to get married soon.  Need advice if I should hunt for another job or continue here, looking at the current market.  ...

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

26Yrs of Age. 24L fixed + 1L Variable + 30L ESOPs
5yrs Exp
Domain: Data
Looking to get married soon. 
Need advice if I should hunt for another job or continue here, looking at the current market. 
(Avg work quality but lovely WLB)

Looking for Advice

Looking for Advice- Grapevine

The FAANG and unicorn employee salaries for even 2-7 YOE engineers is quite insane compared to the average Indian employee pay in other sectors of the economy.

The average SDE2 at these companies makes 50+ lakhs per year in compensation (not “CTC” but real money) The average SDE3 makes 80+ lakhs which is frankly insane.

What are you guys doing with all that money?

FAANG & unicorn folks, what do you do with all that money?

Giving 34.2% directly and 18-28% indirectly to gormint. My biggest expenses by a country mile.

Security Engineer

Analyst

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Got an offer from LTI as Specialist Software Engineer. I am getting arnd 40% hike on my basic. 

The issue is I am in a stable company with decent WLB and avg hikes are similar to inflation levels. 

Have heard LTI has a bad hike culture and wlb is project dependent. 

My only good thing is a NP of 30 days in my current org and no calls on weekend. 

Any advice will be helpful.

Got an offer from LTI as Specialist Software Engineer and I am confused as fuck.

Hey guys, I’m a senior software engineer and I am planning to jump boat. Here are my current compensation details. 

YOE: 2 years

Base Pay: 21.7 lacs
Bonus: 2.5 lacs
RSUs: 20.1 lacs
TC: 44.3 lacs

I wish to know where do I realistically stand in the current market and how much of an upside should I aim for while switching. Thanks in advance.

Planning to switch. Need advice.

Software Developer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I’m currently working at a B2B SaaS company as a PM. I have a great interest in analytics but not getting enough exposure here and my role has just got so redundant and more like project manager. 
It’s been really difficult in the last couple of months as growth seem to have stopped and I am really scared about my career. 

Experience - 1 Year
Current Comp - ~17LPA fixed with some Esops 

Should I consider switching to analytics ( I am confident about my skills which will get me something in analytics ) given my current situation or try to get another good role in PM to which the market has been really cruel lately. 

Need some advice!!

Product to Analytics switch

I want to understand if you are also satisfied with your compensation?

How much do you really earn? Honest Answers Please 🙏

2.4 lakhs/month. 
      
 Not a developer. 
 Not in Tier 1 city.  
 Not in FAANG or whatever it’s called now. 
 No loans or EMIs for now. 
  
 Married to my GF of six years. She earns 1.3 lakhs/month. 
  
 Guess, I could say I am extremely satisfied.

UX/UI Designer

Post CTC, YOE, Role (mine is 45 LPA, 4 YOE, PM)

What is your CTC (Mega thread)

Product Marketing Manager

Recently, I've completed 1 year into my role and my CTC is 16LPA. The company is a startup, and I've got ESOPs which are included in CTC.

It has been an year, and I'm thinking of making a switch. But still can't decide whether I should bet on ESOPs and stay, or get a higher pay and switch?

The company culture is pretty good, and it's a remote role, plus not much work load. :) 

But apparently, I'm worried if everyone else is making a switching companies with a 50% raise, why should I stick with 10% appraisal at a single company?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

1 year into job, what to do next?

Hey all, I’m actively looking for a switch from my current role to a growth/marketing role at any good company. Additionally, I also aim to get some work-life balance as my current role doesn’t offer it.

Any leads, suggestions, or referrals would be great. 

Here’s my profile: 
Education- Eco Major, Top Du College
Current- Management consulting associate
Projects done in current role - Market research studies for big clients in the pharmaceutical industry

22 y/o - Mgt consulting associate looking for switch

Consultant

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

I'm in tech and making 10 LPA (1 YOE ).

What are some of the investments I should do to able to make 10CR in 10 years?

What all sacrifices need to be done to achieve this target while living a decent lifestyle?

Ambition of 10CR

Currently with 3+ yrs of experience and earning around 36 LPA ( 28 fixed and 8 esops ). Getting a feeling like I am not earning enough and also I am getting a FOMO looking at my friends who are doing MS and settled in US. I want to experience it, but not sure if it’s worth it or should I look for switch to get out that fomo? It’s now or never for doing MS as I am will be getting almost 4-5 yrs experience in next few years. Also, Feeling like I am getting old for MS 

Please give suggestions.

Should I do MS ?

Heard the market is back roaring again for some. We are so coming back.

Appraisal Season '24: What was your last salary and what is your current salary?

Welcome to Moving Abroad's Private Community

Male, 32, married
Combined CTC: 50 lakhs

Working our way to making our corpus, but we are confused if we should move to any first world country like USA or UK, gulf countries OR continue in India

Whats your opinion on moving abroad and starting afresh at this stage of like?

Background: No loans
Both working in product management
Higher Education: done and dusted
No kids, planning to have after 3 years or so

Is India worth the social issues considering low cost of living

Is moving abroad worth the risk of starting afresh, risking settled jobs and visa issues 

Help a fellow mate here ✌🏻

Job migration dilemma

Product Owner

Which is a better option to increase salary/package ?

 switching roles in between different sectors like banking,audit,financial markets.

Or

To build a career in a specific area/sector.

Need advice from experienced folks

External Audit

Context: almost 5 YOE, BTech + MBA both from tier 3. Current CTC 32LPA including variable and retention bonus (24.3 is fixed). I work as an APM in a pharma consulting organisation (which also has a SaaS platform) in Pune. 

Recently Got an offer from a tier 1 consulting company (not MBB but close enough) for a pretty new role of product + project management for one of their saas tools. The offer is 20% hike on my fixed + variable upto 15% + 2L JB. And it’s in Mumbai which is my hometown. I tried negotiating but the hiring manager said this is the best offer they can give. 

The job role will require infrequent travel to client locations and overall seems interesting. 

I’m in a dilemma if I should accept or not because the brand is infinitely better than my current organisation and will open up exit opportunities to MBB. On the other hand my professional growth in current organisation seems stagnant as there is not a lot to learn here but monetary growth has been good. (10-15% hikes every year).

Need genuine advice on switching

Hey guys,

I am 2023 passout. I got laid off from my previous organisation in March 2024. I have almost 9 months of work experience and am currently looking for a job.

It has almost been 6 months to my job hunt. Got interviews from google companies like Blinkit Coinbase Google Oracle Razorpay etc. But somehow or the other things went south and i have not landed any offer yet.

There is one early stage startup thats offering me 40-60k per month. Considering that my last withdrawn CTC was 15LPA(all fixed) should i take this offer? Since the market is really bad for freshers.

Seniors, please help me out here!!! Lmk if you need any other details about my work experience.

Advice needed

I started in FAANG about 7 years ago(first job out of college). Went to USA for a brief period of 1.5 years. I have saved up around 6-7cr and have a total CTC of 1.2-1.3cr

All this is amazing but I am not happy. Job is bleh with everyone I have met trying to press their own agenda. Growth in terms of promotions is slow and with economy like this, you can be fired anytime. 

I have been having trouble sleeping and it’s not been easy. Have tried therapy but it’s not helping. Maybe I need sabbatical as I burnt out

Advice

Hey All, 

I'm 26-M earning a descent salary(approx 40k per month). My family doesn't have any property/gold and we live in a rented house. 
90% of my earnings goes to expenditure. And rest 10% goes to some or the other expenditures (like medicine, repairs, travelling etc). At the end of the month my bank account has around 1-2k.

I have no savings, no sip, no shares, no crypto nor additional source of income. 
I'm only running my entire house. 

My parents want me to get married. My parents both have diabetes and my father is 60yrs old.
He wants me to get married as soon as possible so that he can have a cool head. 

The thing is, for marriage also there's no money saved, I have to take some loan (approx 2-3Lakhs) for the marriage. 

Especially in my community, girls are very few in numbers and they have lot of expectations like own house, more than 15LPA, rental income etc etc. 

I only expect one thing from the girl i.e she should be having a minimum degree and should be working. 

But most of the girl's parents are rejecting because of my financial condition. 

I'm in a dilemma whether to stop looking for marriages atleast for 2-3 years(so that atleast my salary would be increased by that time frame). But at the same time I'm feeling scared like once I cross 28 age it would be very difficult to find a match as at that time also I may not own a house.

Any guidance would be helpful😀

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