Education: BTech from Tier 2 college
Years of Experience: 5 years
Prior Experience: 5 years in startups
Date of the Offer: 1st March, 2021
Company: Cleartax
Title/Level: SDE 3
Location: Bangalore
Salary: 42 lpa
Relocation/Signing Bonus: 1.5 lakhs
Stock bonus: 20 lakhs vested over 4 years
Bonus: 0
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 42 lakhs as stocks for startups is basically 0 till you can actually liquidate them
Benefits: None really
Other details: Had to negotiate hard for the offer. Had other competing offers for even bigger amounts. Biggest one was of 52 lpa (44 lpa base + 8 lpa performance bonus) But company culture seemed bad on glassdoor.
Previous Compensation - 33 lpa