Education: B.Tech, CSE
Years of Experience: ~9 years
Prior Experience: With one of the unicorn in India
Date of Offer: March 2021
Company: Gojek
Title/Level: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Base Pay: 57L +3.42L PF
Annual Bonus: 11.4L which goes upto 22.8L
Signing Bonus: They don't provide
Stock Bonus: 70K USD (4 years) RSU
Total comp (Salary + Bonus): ~72L
Benefits: 6L medical insurance, various annual reimbursements worth ~50K
Interview Experience:
I applied through LinkedIn for Principal Engineer but they offered Lead Engineer position
Round1: LLD on already coded piece. Focus is on TDD
Round2: Detailed discussion around current projects/system. Certain questions around the existing design choices and different trade-offs (Two interviewers)
Round3: Design bill payments system where third-party are dynamically added. Some questions around functional paradigm and consistency guarantees with Kafka (Two interviewers)
Round4: This was the Bar Raiser round. Mostly behavioral questions
Round5: HR round on overall fitment