SqueakyHamster
SqueakyHamster

Is it time to quit my startup SDE role?

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

17mo ago
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9 min AI interview5 questions
Round 1 by Grapevine
PeppyKoala
PeppyKoala

Are you me? Thinking about applying to international startups btw, less likely to get a better offer with decent WLB in India

SqueakyHamster
SqueakyHamster

Haha. International startups, how are you going about them?

I have never searched for a job before in open market, slightly clueless on this aspect too. Let me know if you want to connect on this

PeppyKoala
PeppyKoala

Will most likely DM founders directly on Twitter after building something with their product. I also graduated this year so don't have much market experience either, planning to switch sometime next year. Are you on discord?

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