Sorry for going off the topic but it’s going to relate at some point: HR reflects a company culture, most of the HRs in my 8 years of experience (from Investment Banks to Fintech) show their performance while speaking with candidates and make them feel that they chose your company at the right time. Some HRs do data entry jobs - setting up the interview and max sending the resume to hiring manager, here they think work is over cause they don’t know further process (candidates suppress their feelings and take a follow up). Later they get bad feedback.  
  
 If you want to become the first, show that and get the goddamn hike.

Strategy & Operations

HR professionals from top tier colleges are paid well. Youll see a fresher from XL/TISS at upwards of 20 L ctc.

Recruiter

Why are HR professionals paid so low? With around 1.8 years of experience in HR and a current CTC of 4 LPA, I'm surprised that the companies I'm applying to are not offering even a 10% hike. Why ar...

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Why are HR professionals paid so low? With around 1.8 years of experience in HR and a current CTC of 4 LPA, I'm surprised that the companies I'm applying to are not offering even a 10% hike. Why are HR salaries so low? The majority of companies I'm applying for are having a budget 25-30K per month. I'm based out of Delhi NCR. What can I do to increase my CTC?

Low CTC for HR Professionals

Human Resources

Low CTC for HR Professionals- Grapevine

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Recently I have given an interview in accenture, now I have to go through the HR discussion for package negotiation.
Please help me, how to negotiate, and how much I ask, so that they will approve the package easily.


Also This is my first switch.

YOE- 4.5 Years
Current CTC- 5.5
Domain - Azure Data Engineering

HR Package Discussion

Data engineer

I started off as a QA Engineer for 2 years and now close to completing 2 more years at another company as a software engineer (nodejs backend) and recently promoted to Senior Software Engineer. Is 13.5L a decent pay considering i work for an MNC (work from home). Graduated from one of the best pvt college in India, started my career with Cerner Healthcare..

Please share your views.

13.5 Lakh CTC - 4 YOE is good?

Software Engineer

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Hi guys,
I am currently working as an APM at an AI startup(B2B SAAS) working on genAI product. Have 2 YOE and base of 20 LPA.
Looking to switch due to growth barrier and work culture. 
Have given interviews with startups in similar domain for APM roles but getting ghosted after 3-4 rounds. I am looking for 20-30% hike.
Am i asking too much?
Any suggestions?

Background:
B.Tech from IIT Delhi
Current CTC:21Lpa
YOE- 2 yrs

APM salary

Product Manager

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Tech stack : Salesforce developer 
YOE : 3.5 yrs
Company: Service based 
Current CTC : 9 LPA

What is the market standard for this domain and YOE ?

I have an upcoming HR round, how much should I ask for as expected salary?

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How to negotiate properly? Anytime we could get to do it on our CCTC or the holding offer (2-3L extra). But if I feel the company could pay more than it + my skills are worth it. How to put that out? Many times I get to see a response that your numbers are high compared to your current CTC / max we can give 2L more than your holding offer not more than it.
Example:
CCTC : 10LPA, holding : 15LPA, mostly HRs try to settle me at 17LPA max. But through some research if I see the same companies are paying somewhere between 18-22LPA, so I can get offered 22LPA also right! 

So in such cases how to know the range of hiring? how to negotiate to maximum(realistically) without any regrets and get the best, especially when I am expecting a 100% hike or more?. Does interview performance affect salary?
Pour your input guys.

How to negotiate salary?

Software Developer

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YOE - ~8
Industry- B2B SaaS
City - Bangalore 
Employer - Early stage Startup, series A funded
Education- BTech ( tier 2 private college)
CTC - 16LPA 

If you are in content marketing, share your details.

Trying to benchmark Content Marketing salaries for work.

Content Marketing Manager

I am working in Accenture as a manual tester. How much CTC can I expect from the other companies?? Anyone..

Salary Expectations

Software Test - QA

So I applied on Coindcx website for an open role about a week ago.

Their HR “manager” called me after CV review and asked general questions like past role, why looking for a change etc. Then came the CTC part. He said my expected CTC is out of their budget as their budget is like 10% increment from my current role but he will try to stretch to 15%, the next day I called and said since I need to move city as well if you can get upto 20, I am good. His response “lets start the process and then we will see”

Next day Round 1. The person join the called and was without camera, even though my camera was on (I always thought its common courtesy to have camera on). From her way of talking it looked she was not prepared or afraid to take interview.

There was no introduction, no hello, we straight away went to interview. She said she will ask 1 DSA question, 1 SQL question then some theory. 

I solved the DSA question, she asked me to add few things I did, now her reaction to this was (I am not able to understand how your code works so I am not sure it will give output).

Then we went to SQL question, her question had incorrect values and I had to point it out to her, I solved that as well with some assumptions as I forgot some syntax. She then forgot the actual output and said your output is incorrect then I showed this is what you asked so she was like okay

Then abruptly we ended the interview when she said please ask any questions which I asked around work, even that she was not answering correctly. It was like either she was not interested or she was afraid.

Within hours I got rejection mail as well.

So either because of CTC they did a formal interview (which  I am like you can say you are out of budget), or if your interviewer is not good please get it fixed.

Will never apply for this company for sure

One of the worst interview experience with CoinDCX

I had a similar experience with them a couple of years ago except it was a panel interview with 3 interviewers.  
  
 Nobody had their cameras turned on. They asked 2 DSA questions which I solved with correct output. One of the panel (the loudest one) didn't correctly know the amortised time complexity of the second question and I had to explain the maths and calculations from ground up. Then they abruptly ended the interview (no time for questions) and I got a rejection mail later. 
  
 I've never applied to them and will never respond to their recruiter messages again.

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Recruiter: Will call you asking basic details, without knowing anything about the job description and team involved. When you ask any questions, they are always coming back with information, sometimes they don't too

Actual project team: more often than not, in need and if they like you they will communicate very clearly that we want you. When asked about benefits etc general response or always HR will connect.


HR: comes during negotiation time, will not anything about the role, will come with sole purpose of saving some bucks on CTC. More often than not, they will be the reason a candidate withdraws from process, or negotiation doesn't work, even though the actual team might be okay with negotiation.

This is my experience, HR is giving such a vague offer which looks good on paper but on hand it's nothing in terms of growth and pay increase. Same old CTC vs gross salary shenanigans. When negotiating the HR thinks I'm not worth it and asks for proofs of every deduction from current employer.
This is such a stark difference from the Actual team who interviewed me and were very good and open.

HRs , Recruiters & Actual team are always on different tangents

Analyst

There’s this chap on GV who posted that they haven’t received any calls for the past 3 months. Has 2.5 years experience with a current ctc around 15L. We spoke to them only to realise their expectations are 32L (26 fixed and 6 in esops)

In a market flooded with resumes due to unfortunate situations, is it fair to have such an expectation and at the same time, call out on GV that they haven’t been getting calls for an interview?

Are high expectations in such a market valid (even accounting for cream deserves takes)

26 fixed seems pretty reasonable, I don’t know how much lower you can expect

Founder

What can be the CTC for getting 1.5 Lakhs in hand salary per month?

Tech Lead

Hi Folks. I'm a Project Management Professional with 8 years of work experience in PPM, PMO, PM, GRC, TMO, etc. Very good experience in Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, JIRA, Project Management & PPM Tools. I've great EQ and IQ, and have always been the person to get the work done. Hold a TATA Value Award as well. Due to some unfortunate turn of events, I had to go through a bad phase and took time off for 2-3 months in early 2024. Now, I've got few offers but not happy with the offered CTC. I'm from core Engineering background and hold a Project Management Certification. My last drawn CTC was 20 LPA all fixed. Trying for >25 LPA.
Current Location is Kolkata and I can relocate to other cities. Looking forward to start my next employment soon and I'm in dire need of this. Could you please check and refer me for suitable opportunities? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 🙏

Request for Referral for Project Manager or PMO roles

Project Manager

Hi fellow designers, I am a brand & graphic designer who worked at a smaller design studio for the last 5 years or so. I am now looking to join an in-house brand team in a big start-up/corporate. In my previous company, since it was a smaller design studio, I was getting paid less compared to what startups and corporates pay their designers.

Will my previous lower-than-market-rate-salary affect my ability to get a good CTC now? What is a good CTC expectation for a senior brand & graphic designer with 5-6 years of good work experience?

Ideal CTC for 5-6 years experience?

Senior Designer

Hello folks, 
When applying for roles, I have seen HRs asking for your current CTC and expectations. Some even ask to share Fixed+Variable components.

I have read that it is illegal in some countries but nothing about India. Is it so common in India to share these details. And if I wish to not share, do they drop my candidature for screening round?

Sharing your CTC with HR

System Engineer

These job switch questions were already asked in first and second round as well and even by the HR. I think if everyone was convinced by my reasons then why the hell would I get rejected in the final round? If this was the problem then I wouldn't have worked hard for all the rounds . They should have rejected me in the first round itself if that was the only reason they wanted to reject me. Plus I asked for a CTC of 27 LPA. I have 5 yrs of experience. BCG HR said she doesn't have that budget. I laughed in my mind. How can the HR lie on the face even when they know that there are other companies ready to offer me more than even 27. They are like unfortunately we don't have the budget. After 3 days she called me again saying we will match your expectations. I don't understand why you would irritate a candidate by raising their hopes and then reject them. I think MBBs are overhyped. The leadership sucked. If BCG can't pay me 25-30 lpa then I think they have lost their game big time.

Have you guys interviewed at MBB companies and got rejected in the fourth round? Just because you had multiple switches? I recently interviewed at BCG and everything went well until the director saw I gave a valid reason for each switch.

Learning And Development

So after 2-4 rounds of interview rounds, I got LOI from Deloitte USI.
They are giving 14 fixed + Variables.(0-10%)
Is this good or got low balled.
Offered role: Java Microservice Consultant.
Exp: Almost 4yrs

Current CTC: 9.2 LPA.

Salary Negotiation

Use this platform to pass inside information, which you think can be helpful had you known when it was your time. 

Revolut ( UK fintec) has three types of ranking in support specialist workflow. Graduate, junior, and mid level. Once you have gone through the test,interview, and all,they will put you in one of these three rankings based on your performance and exp. Generally Grad (0-1yoe), Junior 1-2), Mid(2/3+) .  YOE not sole critera, they can be lenient based on performance 

Grad ( 4- 5 lpa)
Junior (5-7.5)
Mid (7.5-10)

This is true for Fincrime, kyc, kyb , screening, and ongoing monitoring.

FIU and TM crypto pass 1 -2 lac more than the other.

Mid (fiu) can pay 12 lpa even with 2 yoe.

This is for support specialists' production roles.

A 4yoe + 2 yoe in TL can fetch you 15+ lpa as a TL. Again, crypto and FIU can fetch you upto 22 lpa.

Your current ctc doesn't hold you back. Revolut doesn't negotiate hard. 2 negotiations and they offer you or they don't. Its not back and forth with them. 

4.5 ctc has got 11.5 ctc there. 150% hike. 2 rounds of negotiations. Plain simple. 

If you are applying for any role. Don't hesitate to ask more, be your lawyer. These figures already exist. Maybe there are other higher figures too that i am yet to come across.

PS : I dont work there, but 6 ppl whom i supervised do.

Brothers helping brothers

Hey,
I am SDE with 2YOE getting 10LPA.
Here I could see many folks posting their CCTC as 30LPA, 35LPA or even beyond for 2-3years exp. 
How is it possible? What you guys work with?
How many of you guys have such high CTCs?
Plz share your journey so i can pick up good stuff from it. Thank you

Getting anxious when I look at CTCs!

A little background info before I get into the details:

I have left appraisals at the table (twice) to pursue better opportunities which offered me a varied job role. I am now stuck at the same organization for two years and my appraisal conversation has been going on for 7 months. Ridiculous, I know. This company has no growth prospects. I have not grown in the last two years in any aspect. Regret the day I left the appraisal & job promotion at my previous organization to join this company.

Naturally, I've started my job search and have landed a few offers but no one seems to offer me more than 30% and I need to correct my salary. 

How's the best way to ensure I get a package that can offer over 30%? I need atleast 45-50% to correct my salary. 

Profile: social media marketing, PR and content writing 
Exp: 4+

What's the best way to negotiate your package

Social Media Manager

I have 10+ years of experience in PR and I’m currently working with an Indian startup. The startup is doing ok given the marker conditions (just ok) so I only got a 13% appraisal last year and my CTC is now 26L. Is this too low or is it okay?

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