SillyRaccoon
SillyRaccoon

How do you decide on taking up an offer?

Recently, I interviewed with a US healthcare startup. I cleared and was offered 30lpa. 10% hike on my last CTC. I need to work in the Central Time zone. May even need to stretch since it's a startup. Good learning opportunity and ownership.

Even before this, I got an offer for 38LPA from another healthcare startup from Chennai. Apparently I couldn't take up that offer because of relocation. After that whatever calls I got didn't have the budget or wanted me to completely relocate to Pune, Mumbai or Gurgaon. I am looking for something in Bangalore hybrid/wfo/remote. Some companies left the hiring process in the middle saying org restructuring. I got some offers to be VP or Co-founder with sole equity.

The number of calls that I received last year comparatively are very high and that too from very good companies.

I am clueless right now. Since, I am broke and feel helpless. I am not sure what to do now. Sometimes I lose confidence and feel low on what I lack...

So, coming back to the question, how do you guys decide on offers?

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FloatingPickle
FloatingPickle

Depends on priorities of an individual and the stage of life at which the individual is. Case 1: individual doesn't have much constraint in moving to different cities like Blr, Pune, Mumbai, Hyd, NCR - then the individual can freely move and would have a larger number of switching opportunities.
Case 2: if the individual has constraints in switching location, then obviously the number of calls would be lesser.

I generally keep 3-4 parameters in mind.

  1. Percentage Hike: should be 30-40%
  2. Cities : Should be one among Blr, Mumbai, Pune, Hyd. I am anyways from Tier 2 city so would need to relocate anyways and don't have constraints as of now
  3. Firm Size: My personal preference is firm should be 10+ years old minimum and should have employee base > 10k
  4. Work Type Preference - I generally prefer getting into Research and Innovation type business units. I feel there's better opportunity to learn and less stress.
FloatingBagel
FloatingBagel

Working in Central Time from India, means doing night shift daily?

SillyRaccoon
SillyRaccoon

Yes

FloatingBagel
FloatingBagel

That’s rough man. How come you’re broke and getting VP/co-founder roles. Must have some good experience and comp from that. For me, at this point health > money, so no night shifts for me.

FluffyNugget
FluffyNugget
Plivo23mo

Bruh what’s your yoe and how come u can’t find job in Bangalore? That really sounds weird when most of the high pay IT crowd works there

SillyRaccoon
SillyRaccoon

6+ years. Yes whatever calls I got pay was low or needed relocation

GroovyMarshmallow
GroovyMarshmallow

Hmu I’m hiring if you are a developer

DancingNoodle
DancingNoodle

10% is too low for a switch. Ask atleast 20 to 25%

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