Starting my career in 2013 as a Trainee Decision Scientist at Mu Sigma with a salary of 3.3 LPA, I embarked on a journey of growth and learning. After just 1.5 years, I moved into retail analytics in 2015 with a salary of 8 LPA. Over 3.5 years, with two hikes and a promotion, my salary grew to 14 LPA by the time I left in 2018.
At the end of 2018, I joined an insurance company with a package of 19.8 LPA. Through a hike and market corrections, my salary increased to 22.7 LPA.
In 2020, I shifted my focus to NLP and deep learning, joining a startup with a fixed salary of 36 LPA. Within a year, leveraging a competing offer of 54 LPA, I negotiated my way to a 50 LPA all fixedsalary in 2021.
Later in 2021, I transitioned to a Fortune 500 company with a 40% hike. My package included a 54.5 LPA base, 10.8 LPA variable, and a 6+6 LPA joining bonus, totaling 71.3 LPA.
In 2024, my work in Gen AI and NLP, along with some blogs I published, caught the attention of a Google recruiter. In November 2024, I joined Google as an L5 engineer. My package includes a 58 LPA base, 4 LPA retirals, an 8.7 LPA bonus (15%), stocks worth 52 LPA vesting monthly, and a 7 LPA joining bonus.
From 3.3 LPA to a comprehensive package of over 130 LPA, this journey reflects the power of upskilling, persistence, and seizing opportunities at the right time!
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What was your first ever CTC and what's your current CTC with YoE?
I'll start - 1.6 to 9.8 in 4 years.
This post is intended to give hope to freshers and motivation to experienced folks.
1 lakh 80 thousand per year Now 1 lakh 85 thousand per month Years taken 11
20 (as a fresh MBA grad) to 70 in 5.5 years -> worked throughout in startups
My progression: ASDE (0 yoe) => 5 LPA SDE (1 yoe) => 7 LPA SDE (1y 3m) => 12 LPA SDE (2y 7m) => 15 LPA S...
Would love to understand at what age people are joining their first company/startup and how much are they making initially? What’s the average pay diff between people graduating from tier1 institutions and tier2/tier3+ institutes?
Comment down below your CTC and Experience and let others judge you that you need a switch or not.
Mine is 7 LPA, Newly joined at Deloitte USI.
Just saw my friend with 12LPA posting 50LPA to make others feel underpaid🤣🤣…don’t believe everyone here. If you f...
60 LPA with 8 years experience
8.5 LPA with 7 Years
As someone from a tier-3 college, is it possible for me to bag a good job and slowly climb the ladder and make 30L, 40L like some of you do?
Is this IIT branding so needed even today to get a job at top companies?
I have huge regrets ...
