**Years of Experience: 2
Previous Company : Nagarro
My Location: Delhi
Salary at Nagarro- 11L(Fixed)+1 Bonus(6 month-50k each)
Nagarro Usually Pays Low... I had an compelling offer from Paytm and Delhivery in Sep 20 due to which I was retained in Nagarro.
I choose to stay because , you cannot find a more chill company than Nagarro wherein you will get time to prepare for Interviews.
Date of the Offer: Feb 2021
Company: Lifesight
Title/Level: Software Development Engineer- Big Data/Backend
Location: Bangalore
Salary: 15L
Variable bonus: 1L
Total comp (Salary + Bonus): 16L
Benefits: N/A
Other details: This was the proposed offer from HR, as the max offer that they can give for SDE 1 position. Since this was below my expectations, I traded this offer
Date of the Offer: Feb 2021
Company:Pubmatic
Title/Level: Software Development Engineer- Big Data/Backend
Location: Pune
Salary: 18L
Variable bonus: 1,90L
Stocks- 11k dollar Equity ~ RSU vested over 3 years
Total comp (Salary + Bonus): 23-24L(1st Year)
Benefits: N/A
Other details: This was the proposed offer from HR, and it was the maximum they could offer despite negotitating multiple times. I was pretty satisfied with this and resigned
from Nagarro based on this offer.
Date of the Offer: Feb 2021
Company:Tokopedia
Title/Level: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Noida
Salary: 18L
Variable bonus: 2L
Total comp (Salary + Bonus):20L
Benefits: N/A
Other details: This was the proposed offer from HR, and it was the maximum they could offer, reason of giving a low ball offer despite having other offers in hand was location
constraint. They everytime reminded me that in NCR no-one will offer this much to 2 YOE, they already had gone for senior position for 2 YOE
Date of the Offer: Feb 2021
Company:Netomi
Title/Level: Software Development Engineer-1 (Backend)
Location: Gurgaon
Salary: 19L
Variable bonus: 1.5L
Total comp (Salary + Bonus):20.5L
Benefits: N/A
Other details: They didnt give SDE-2 role despite taking 2 design rounds. Again Location Constraint was given for me .
Date of the Offer: March 2021
Company:Airtel X Labs
Title/Level: Data Engineer
Location: Gurgaon
Salary: 20L
Variable bonus: 1L
Total comp (Salary + Bonus):21L
Benefits: N/A
Other details: Had to trade offers to get 20 base at XLabs, they also gave NCR reason whilist I was happy that an alternative was there for me to consider in NCR
Date of the Offer: March 2021
Company:Gojek
Title/Level: Data Engineer
Location: Banglore
Salary: 22L
Stock bonus: 20,000 USD (Vested over 4 years)
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): ~ 27-28L
Benefits: Standard Gojek Benefits (Travel allowance, lunch, leaves, insurance etc.) + Provident Fund(1 Lakh)
Other details: I was very happy after clearing Gojek, had traded offers but compensation was not a concern for them. I was sure to join Gojek
Date of the Offer: March 2021
Company:Conviva
Title/Level: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Banglore
Salary: 22L
Variable Pay: 2L
Sign-On Bouns- 4L
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): ~ INR 28L
Other details: I had given interviews for this in Feb , followup interviews took place in March . Needed to trade offers to get this base.
Date of the Offer: March 2021
Company:PayPal
Title/Level: Software Engineer -2
Location: Chennai
Salary: Cannot Disclose
Variable Pay: Cannot Disclose
Sign-On Bouns- Cannot Disclose
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock):Cannot Disclose
Other details: It was a dream come true for me , despite it had a very minute difference from Gojek offer... But I was elated to see that I had cleared PayPal.
I have now Joined PayPal as SE-2. It might not be that good company for others(FAANG People), but it means a lot to me. Maybe someday I will clear Microsoft/Google.