So Motivation to make this list comes after the appraisal season, after a disappointing appraisal season I saw many of my most hardworking colleagues quit.
Personaly I am comfortable, I am at 24LPA with 1.5 years of experience, I work at a famous Indian Decacorn, my work ethic and work-life balance allows me to make time for exploring a lot of my hobbies with wfh, so with the next switch I plan I would like to keep all these good things therefore, not planning to add any startups to this list.
So before the appraisal searon in the past 6 months I have seen multiple SDE1's from my company with salaries in the same 18-24 LPA ballpark, switch to other companies for bumper raises in the 38-45LPA.
Some of these companies were:
So yes these will be at the beginning of the list, I plan to switch by the end of this year. And my only motivations to switch are
Conditions to add companies in the list
Feel free to add links from Compensation section of Leetcode discuss, will update the list accordingly.
List so far