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Hi, I was recently contacted by DE Shaw recruiters for a SMT(S)( role in Test). I am currently a SDE2 at Amazon and make 60+LPA. Does anyone have any idea what is the max/min salary band of SMT. I ...

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Hi, I was recently contacted by DE Shaw recruiters for a SMT(S)( role in Test). I am currently a SDE2 at Amazon and make 60+LPA. Does anyone have any idea what is the max/min salary band of SMT. I want to give their interviews but the amount of money will decide the preparation.  All my research says that they won't be able to match(forget hike) my current compensation.

Pls help 😅

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I am a 25 yr old male and I come from a very small town in Jharkhand. My dad was a mechanic.

I am their only son. I graduated from a tier 3 college where getting any job was a dream. I worked hard and cleared a 9 LPA job in Pune. Got promoted and got hikes and came to around 13 LPA in around a year’s time. Resigned it for Amazon, BLR at 30 LPA. I joined in Oct 22 and got laid off in Jan 23. When I cleared Amazon, it was moment of pride for me and my parents. For the first time everything looked well and life felt happy and promising. It was just perfect.

After the layoff, life has been full of struggle. It was so difficult to get a job. Somehow got a decent company who would at least hire me without reducing my pay, but had to deal with a pathetic manager, and the culture wasn’t too good. Joined here for ~34 LPA

I finished 1 year in this company this April and I started to interview. Started with a startup, they said they can’t offer that much. Next was MSFT. They took 8 ROUNDS for a SE2 role and they offered me a L60 role and won’t budge at all, for a lower comp. I had to reject. In the meantime, I had already cleared Intuit at 50 LPA and DE Shaw at around 60 LPA. DE Shaw HM told me this role is SDET which the recruiter didn’t mention. Had to reject there. I resigned after I cleared Intuit and expected MSFT to give me an offer and I was sure that whatever comp they’ll offer I’ll take, but didn’t expect them to give me L60 and a comp around 29 LPA.

When Intuit’s joining came close I considered taking my resignation back but my manger bullied me and didn’t take my resignation back.

I got a chance to interview with Apple. It was so close to Intuit’s joining date that I asked Intuit to push it by 3 weeks. After 5 rounds, Apple said they can’t go ahead with my profile because of less experience. 

Folks trust me: All my interviews at MSFT and Apple went very very well.

When I made up my mind to join Intuit, they announced lay offs. My only option is to join.

Feeling like I lost in life

Any idea about how is D.E. Shaw for a fresher. In terms of WLB, work culture, Salary, Hikes and overall. I am an average person, will I be able to survive there. 

Looking at recent layoffs in other companies, I am really worried about how companies treat employees, laying them off if they don't perform well. Or even without that.

Are there any layoffs happening?

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Hi everyone, 
I have an interview at De Shaw for the SDET role. Can anyone suggest important topics or important questions to quickly go through? 
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you!

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If anyone has idea on compensation chart across levels for above roles, please do share.
More interested in Amazon's comp on this.

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Hi everyone, just needed a bit of help in understanding a role at DE Shaw (Primary Research Group) and applying to it. Anyone who works there?

Please let me know and how can I best reach out to you, would be grateful!

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I’m currently interviewing with cars 24 and expecting an offer from them by this week

The rough numbers given to me are 
base: mid 40s and 10% variable bonus (overall comes around near 50LPA)
(There is no other component apart from these)

I need help with the following:

1. HR told me they don’t give ESOPs etc. I just wanted to confirm if I should negotiate on this because on Leetcode I’m seeing they offered joining bonus as well as ESOPs.
2. If anyone can give me details around any recent offer from them and the components they got in the offer, it would really help


My recent TC: 36L Base
25L esops per year
Total workEx: 4 yrs
Education: Tier 1 CSE

So this is like taking a pay cut in terms of overall TC 

(Catch is I was laid off and I need this offer for the worst case scenario)

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Overall work experience : 4 years 
MBA from TAPMI

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What's the job level for 5.5 Years of Experience in @Amazon? L5 as per my knowledge.

For this exp is it SDE-2 or 3?

And what's the salary range we can ask for? Please breakup salary

Please help. Thanks in advance.

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YoE: 10.7 (7@amazon — SDE3 for 2.7 years)
Current designation: SDE3
Current salary : 92L + 25L stock
Location: BLR, IN 

I got a call from google for L7 role (BLR) which is staff role in India afaik. HR mentioned Payrange: 2-3Cr

I get mixed reviews from people so asking again for BLR folks: 

1. Amount of focus on coding round vs system design?
2. Amount of leet code preparation?
3. In the interview Is the focus more on leadership or knowing deeper tech nuances? 
4. What’s the payrange I can get?
5. Is google L7 equivalent of amazon L6? Levels.fyi has split so not exactly sure. 

I am looking for responses from people who have actually gone through similar experiences rather than “I heard from my sources”.

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Bhai don't let anyone you to not try this fortune. 
 Just do it. 
 People will reject tap water for Bisleri and then eat Pani_puri at road side.

Have an offer from a growth stage startup for SDE Intern.

Subsequently, also an offer from Fintech PBC.

Tech stack at Startup: Java, Spring, MongoDB 

Tech stack at Fintech PBC: Testing framework and tools

Startup stipend: 25,000 Rs
Fintech PBC stipend: 60,000 Rs

My inclination is more towards the SDE role purely because of the wide exposure while the money at Fintech is too good for now but there is not much room from growth and also with Al taking over
Help me make a decision!

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I am a java developer with 2.2 years of experience. CURRENT SALARY - 4.2LPA 
Skills sets:
Java
Spring boot
Microservices
AWS
Docker
Kubernates

## HOW MUCH SALARY SHOULD I ASK??????

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Hi guys,

If you have interviewed with amazon recently for SDE2 position, can you share questions asked to you ?

I have cleared Online assessment, and need some help preparing for the interview

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A friend of mine is getting an offer for an SDET role in Tower Research. I have heard of quite high pay and quite low WLB frequently. But I wanted to know of the latest ground reality before any advising.
So, do you folks recommend it?
The friend is currently working at a multinational logistics company as an SDET with a healthy pay at ~3 YOE.

Tower Research SDET review needed

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what are the companies that provide a good amount of RSU to SDEs . I knew a few like Atlassian ,Adobe and Salesforce around 100k for four years.?

Hi All,
I am working in Microsoft as a software developer, i got 2 offer one from ADP and another is from samsung. which one is best to join. Both are offering me same package ..

Is ADP is good company to join ?

Hi senior devs , I have overall 3 years of experience in total with 1.5 years spent  in each of the roles  SDE- 1 and Machine Learning Engineer (present).
Language - Java , Python
Backend - Spring Boot , Rest 
Libraries - Numpy , Pandas, Tensorflow, Pytorch


I am looking to target the SDE-2 position, how can I plan my next 6 months preparing for that .
Thanks a lot !!

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Hey people


I'm on the verge of receiving an offer from Microsoft for an SDE2 L62 position, despite my roughly 7 years of experience. Would this level be appropriate, or should I consider negotiating for an L63 position? Additionally, could you provide insights into the maximum budget for L62, including base salary, variable pay, and RSUs? My current base salary is close to 50 LPA with no other components. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Microsoft L62 budget

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

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