Can help out over a 10-15 min call. Email me at 4sushant@gmail.com

Growth and strategy

Growth Manager

Your salary will depend on the role and the level (depends on experience and skill set) you’re taking up, be it product, engineering, marketing, etc. 
 Refer to aggregators like levels.fyi to get a general idea of pay at that level.

Software Engineer

I have been working on my own startup for 2+ years and we were making revenue but now it's getting difficult to sustain.  I'm planning to shut down and take up a full time job but not sure what sal...

I have been working on my own startup for 2+ years and we were making revenue but now it's getting difficult to sustain.

I'm planning to shut down and take up a full time job but not sure what salary to expect/demand.

Any framework or guidance on how to think about it?!

Salary expectation: Moving back to full time job after startup

Salary expectation: Moving back to full time job after startup- Grapevine

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

Have a Kid and I'm 34 years old.

Should I continue struggling at my Solopreneur startup, or outsource operations, put in auto-pilot mode and go back Job hunting? 

Ideally should have had at least 40-50 LPA worth of assets or savings, but have barely 80K.

What should I do?

Startup in into IoT Product Manufacturing...

Went from 5.5 LPA to 5K/month 8 years back to focus on startup. Now barely making 30-70K/month when Job would have ideally offered 30-40LPA.

Founder

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I am a Software Engineer with 6 years of work experience. Currently working for a US based startup. Previously I have worked for Amazon and a couple of Indian startups.

My current org is remote and I am working from my hometown. It's super chill in this company and work is only to build CRUD and APIs. I feel too stagnant here, my manager is also super chill and is in retirement mode. I feel this will message my future.

I joined this company so I can work on my start up but haven't been very active there too.

Recently a Google recruiter contacted me for a L4 role and had the recruiter screen and he scheduled the interview for the next month.
Google base monthly salary for L4 is way below my current since it's a US based startup. But with RSUs Google annual CTC his higher.

I am confused whether to continue in my org and focus back on startup or start preparing for Google interview. In the long term I want to start my company. At the same time Google will offer an AI ecosystem and resources that will help my startup.

Please share your views.

Please help. Too much confusion.

Software Developer

Have more than 5 years of experience working for a consulting MNC, a SaaS startup and a medium-sized consulting company.

Over the years have gotten the opportunity to work as a frontend engineer(angular, react), a fullstack engineer(java, javascript/typescript, python) and currently a data engineer(pyspark/databricks, azure, gcp).

Projecting my self as a fullstack/backend engineer only. 

What should be my fair salary ask in series A/B/C startups & other product companies?

I believe many of people in here will be in the same boat as me, so please put down your thoughts…!

What should be my fair salary ask?

Consultant

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

1.5 year of full time startup experience. 
Primary tech stack: Flutter - Production ready code with  proper MVVM, SOLID principles; state management BLoC, Provider. Great grasp with animations and advanced animated user interactions, experience writing  multi-threaded routines. Create wrappers for native Android and iOS SDKs. REST, GraphQL APIs integration. Experience handling OAuth tokens locally with refresh logic with network interceptors, local storage, data caching.

Experience with all services of firebase, working knowledge of AWS.

Confession: I am horrible at Leetcode type questions.

How much salary should I ideally be able to justify in 6 months when I have 2 years of full time experience? Currently earning 8LPA.

Salary Expectation: App Developer

tell me a good ballpark for negotiation where i am moving from a 5-day-a-week company to a (5+1) based on the workload a week company.

from one startup (under 100 employees) to a similar company.

tell me what's the baseline hike, what's average, and what's the best i can get?

Salary hike expectations!

Content marketing manager

I am working in a Pre Seed GenAI Startup (2020 Founded) as Head of Engineering (Team of 20 with 5-6 in Engineering, No CTO) 

It's been 3.5 years (3yrs Full Time + 6mon Internship) Previously it is in EdTech now in GenAI Space 

My CTC is 8 LPA + 0.45% ESOPs (10-12L in 25cr valuation). 
Skills: Nodejs, Nextjs, Monorepos, MongoDB, AWS, Serverless

1-2yrs ago we were thinking about scaling the tech team, etc but then that EdTech model started failing and then we went to a war time after that we pivoted currently also we are burning money revenue is there but very less (25% of the expense)

I was of the view that I want to lead teams and scale products That's why I was there in the team It can be the case tomorrow if we scale 

but Now I am confused whether I should switch my job and or stick with the startup maybe the startup grow tomorrow or a big VC fund us to scale (as I have ESOPs) or it will just be a waste of time or opportunity cost

Please guide 🙏 Anyone with a similar startup experience would really appreciate your help 🙏

Need Career Guidance in Tech (Switch or Not?)

I've 3 yoe, currently working in a very small startup as full-stack dev. Company's revenue is declining from Q4 last year.

Every month layoffs are happening in each team. Last week, a dev was laid off from my team.

No hike till now, working here from last 1.5 years. Although, got performance bonus twice.

I want to work on a few ideas, tried to work on weekends but it led to burn out and started affecting my health, suffered from mental fatigue.

Please suggest.

Work on own startup vs switch to another startup

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Been working with a pre series A level startup for about 3 years being my first job. Paid about 20-25lpa for a full stack role. Engineering + product team is still single digit strength as we are not pureplay tech company. 

Had a great learning because of a good manager and 0-1 kind of work we did but I am starting to feel stagnated because of following reasons

1. We don't have anything like SDE1, 2 etc because there are very few devs. 1 manager and everyone else is an SDE. The company doesn't intend to hire more for at least an year.. so i won't see any title level promotion or any role that feels senior despite being around for a while

2. Salary. Want to know if I am behind the standard pay because i belong to tier 1.5ish college. Big tech seems to pay more for 3yrs workex as usually people become sde2 by then

Is it time to quit my startup SDE role?

HR is is trying to lowball me into accepting an offer at my current compensation stating market conditions. I don’t have any other offers yet. What can be done here? 🥲

Salary Negotiation

Product Manager

So, I am an analytics guy with almost 5.5 YoE under my belt. My latest transition was to Phonepe that I made this year (feeling shitty here already, given the kind of work creating almost no impact)
I saw a post on LinkedIn where the CEO of this startup recently raised some pre-seed funding (~1.5mn). Since I was following them for almost 6-7 months before this, I reached out to the founder on LinkedIn. 
We first had a virtual call where we got to know each other and after that discussion, he called me over to his place where we further talked about the idea, the scope and the future while also discussing what I could bring to the table. Post that, we met again, and this time with the other co-founder who deep-dived a slight bit into the tech stack that I had worked on.
It seems that all is going well, but the founder, in the first face to face meeting told me that for the time being (for almost the next 3-4 months), he'll be able to pay me a monthly amount which is less than half of my current in hand pay, post which it'll be reviewed and adjusted accordingly. How do I negotiate this now? Also, since the team size is super small (only 5 full time folks and one customer support part timer), how do I negotiate on what equity I take (looking for a benchmark number here)?

Joining an early stage startup - Need guidance

Analyst

How do I start 
1. To check if it's viable
2. It's in B2C space and can be extended to B2B also ( but lots of competition in B2B but not B2C due to independent small firms)
3. I am from tech background so I can handle that but the idea need operations and few domain experts
4. I will have to leave my current job since I am working in a startup, all 6 days 10+ hours. How much run away should I be sure of, before jumping full time into it.

Suggestions! I have a startup idea

I have 2 job offers in hand and now am a bit confused. Need your advice on decision-making,

1st offer - Jaipur location - investing and trading company, offering me an Equity Research Analyst role with a profit-sharing in the new business division which they are developing.

2nd offer - Bangalore-based startup, recently raised $550k, has 18 months of runway, the current scale is low.. they are offering me mixed roles - 50% of the time will go into Social Media and Content, 30% in Business and 20% in Finance. ESOPs will be based on 6-8 months of performance.

Now I have 2 career paths in mind:

1) I want to do CFA and get into the core finance side... it might also lead me to the VC, PE, or IB side.

2) Startup - I have done startup in the past but failed. I want to do startup again but currently want to join a good startup where I can learn from experienced people.

I don't know how I should go about deciding b/w these 2 career paths.

If you were in my shoes, how would you make a decision?

Have 2 job offers - Confused to choose one

Equity research

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

I have been interviewing at a startup.
Initially I told my expectations to be 38LPA
Later came to know, they pay much more.

Have cleared all the interviews, how can I negotiate for more salary?

Current compensation - 27LPA
Yoe - 6.5
Role: Senior frontend engineer

Salary negotiation! HELP!!

Hey All

I graduated in 2021 out of DU and parallely converted my internship with a preseries A fintech startup for a full-time role, pay was less that what I would've got in campus placements, but I prioritised steep learning curve or a 15k per month salary difference.

After spending 15 months reporting directly to the ceo in a 150 member team, I resigned. Initially the pace was enjoyable, later on it became toxic.

Moved to Bangalore and joined another start-up, didn't take a huge hike since I just wanted to start somewhere. After working here for 7 months, now I have much for focussed idea on what my strengths are and I'm working with experienced folks (avg 8+ years). I'm a 22 year old working in the founding team of pretty good product startup (funded by Kunal and bunch of other angels).

Currently I'm at 6LPA, and would reach a 12LPA in thr next 3-4 months subject to fundraise, what I would like an opinion on is if after completing an year and we don't raise a round, do I stay? Or do I go back home and prepare for Gmat or CAT, then do aan expensive MBA by taking a loan? Or do I find another startup asking for a 12LPA? or do I try for a established company role in program management or partnerships or something?

I don't have any family money or business to fall back on, but fortunately I didn't take a loan for my education yet, and my parents would be okay to give me another 2 more years to figure things out.

Would appreciate help from anyone who've been in a similar journey or just any piece of advice.

Thanks!

Started off career in startups

Program Manager

Have u ever resigned without any offer in hand?

If yes what was the reason and how things went ahead??

Resignation without another offer

Senior Consultant

I'm considering an offer from a BLR based startup which is >Series D. This is for a Growth role.

Currently in a Series B startup where I have been for about 3 years now (been here since inception) and have 1% equity. What would be the right % of equity to ask for while making the switch? 9 YOE.

Would also be helpful if anyone can share the benchmarking of % equity for maybe every Series for the larger benefit of the community. TIA.

How much equity should I ask?

Interning with this startup, it’s been 3 months and they want to onboard me full time.

It’s a founder office (generalist) where I contribute in both sales and marketing (It’s a B2B SaaS startup)

How much salary should I expect? I spoke to a few people on linkedin and they said they’d offer 8-10LPA for someone like me

I’d be really grateful if you guys can share your thoughts, will help me set my expectations better!

Salary Insight required

Systems analyst

I'm working as a Frontend developer (SDE-1) with 1.5yoe, I joined this startup 4 months back. Earlier I was getting paid 9lpa and later I was offered 12lpa without even asking for my previous compensation. I accepted because my earlier organisation was very toxic. Now coming to the point, 

I came to know that for the same level and same role they're paying 16+lpa. And this is making me mad at them. 

Within 3 months I'm handling 1 of their 2 products (customer facing) all alone. And I'm doing great work tbh (not boasting) but if they have 10 major features. I have developed 4 of them all alone, solved really critical down time bugs and improved the product. 

Now I own this product and if any bugs come, I'm the person who's assigned the work.

I want to have a chat with the Founder but I'm not sure what to say and he's a guy who will try to save the money at all costs. 

I'm really mad at this point of time and I'm planning to leave in a few months. 

If I have a chat with him and he says something harsh, I will resign then and there I'm triggered to this level. 

And there was no kind of appreciation from them, I'm taking most tickets during the sprints and delivering quality code, communicating well and thinking in terms of product, if there is anything which can be improved I ask from them.

How do I have a chat with him and what do I say?
Current CTC - 12lpa
Expected CTC - 16 - 20lpa
YOE- 1.5 (planning to have the call around 3-4 months later), so I will be almost 2 yoe by then.

Pay disparity in my startup.

About me: 25M working in a super early stage startup for 1yr.

The startup is only 2 yrs old with seed funding. 2 pivots, but none worked. The 3rd pivot is interesting and we still don't know if it'll work 


I want to understand the life of an Early employee, how do you manage to keep hope, or when to call it quits?

Have vested esops. Also feel if I can get 1.5X cash salary if i switch

Salary expectation: Moving back to full time job after startup

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