DerpyMuffin
DerpyMuffin

Career Progression

Qualification- Engineering from a tier 3 college of Anna University . 2012-2016 batch.

No campus placement

Year 1 - 2.75 lpa service based mnc Associate Software Engineer Year 2- 3.75 lpa salary normalisation and role changed to PMO Year 2.5- 5.5 lpa joined another service based company Year 3 - 6 lpa joined startup as Edtech program manager Year 4- 8 lpa with hike same role Year 6- 11 lpa promotion senior program manager Year 7- 16lpa joined another start up as tech program manager/scrum master Year 7.5- put down paper got retained didn’t match salary but promotion and hike 22lpa role changed to Product manager Year 8- 30lpa product manager another start up

From Associate Software engineer to PMO to Program manager/Scrum Master to Product Manager

Starting salary 2016- 2.75lpa Current salary 2024- 30lpa ( have two offers might get better offer than this)

Note- number is only fixed component of salary

Advice- Take risk and it doesn’t matter what role you are in whether you are a developer , QA, sales person, marketing or CS just be good in whatever role you do, work hard and show your work be visible and be very very good at communication!

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DizzyLlama
DizzyLlama

Thanks man can you give CTC year wise. And congratulations 👏🏻🎉 you came a long way

DerpyMuffin
DerpyMuffin

It’s a woman* 2016- 2.75lpa joined 1st company 2017- 3.5lpa 2018- 4.0 lpa 2018- 5.5 lpa joined 2nd company 2019- 6lpa joined 3rd company
2020- 8lpa 2021- 11lpa 2022- 16lpa joined 4th company
2023- 23lpa 2024 -30lpa joining 5th company soon

This is roughly the number.

DizzyLlama
DizzyLlama

Thanks woman, for the information 😊. Again a lot of best wishes and congratulations from my side. 👏🏻

FuzzyDonut
FuzzyDonut

Damn, you had a slow start. 11 LPA at 6 yoe is ridiculous

DerpyMuffin
DerpyMuffin

Honestly I was not sad , I was learning and growing , I didn’t let my salary define my happiness. It was low but I was seeing lot many people having even worse..

SparklyKoala
SparklyKoala

this is good advice.

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Hey. I graduated from a tier 4 uni with a non-engg degree (3 years).

Including a breakdown of compensation to show what’s possible, apologies for the humble brag.

Year 1: 12 lakh Year 3: 36 lakh + 15 lakh SOPs Year 6: 50 lakh + 5 l...