Education: Btech CS from Tier-2 College
Years of Experience: approx. 1year
Prior Experience: SDE-1 at startup
Current comp : 10LPA
Date of offer: Feb, 2022
Company: Apna
Title/Level: SDE-1
Location: Bangalore, India(Wfh for now)
Salary: 21L(Including PF)
Signing/Relocation: 1L
Esops: 18L over 4 years(25% vesting each year)
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Esops): 26.5L for first year
Benefits: Standard Benefits
Status: Have accepted the offer previously since I had no competing offers.
Date of offer: March, 2022
Company: Stanza Living
Title/Level: SDE-2
Location: Gurgaon, India(Wfh for now)
Salary: 26.5L(Including PF)
Signing/Relocation: 50k
Esops: NIL
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Esops): 27L for first year
Benefits: Standard Benefits
Status: Yet to decide among the two offers.
Can somebody help to choose between the two offers :
1. Is there scope of negogiation with Apna, asking for more base since I have an offer of high base(but similar overall CTC) and get CTC around 30 given that I have already accepted the offer from them previously, will they be open to negogiation?
2. Really confused to go with SDE-2 position or SDE-1. Will there be huge benefits in future if i go with SDE-2 position now considering ~1yr YOE.
3. Stanza Living is offering everything as cash, should I prefer cash over Esops considering Esops can even become 0 in value?
4. I have heard when switching to another company only the base is considered as point of hike and not other components. Is this a myth or reality?
Preference: WLB >> Learning opportunities
Please share your feedback regarding the offers and which one should I consider. Also, don't forget to upvote :)