Education: B.E. in Information Technology
Years of Experience: 3 years 9 months
Prior Experience: SDE-2 at Zomato
Prev. comp: 36L Fixed + Stocks

Company: Phone Pe
Date of the Offer: May 2022
Title/Level: Software Engineer (SDE-2 level)
Location: Bangalore
Salary: Fixed 48LPA
Signing Bonus: 8L
Retention Bonus: 8L
Stock bonus: $50K worth (Approx. 37L) ESOPS over 4 years, 25% vestment each year, monthly vestments from 2nd year

Total comp (Salary + Joining Bonus + Retention bonus + Stocks) for 1st year: 73.25L
Benefits: Standard benefits
Other details: Negotiated once to get more fixed salary on the basis of having other offers and joining early

Interview process:

Round 1: Live coding round
I was given a contact sync problem and had to design my solution around it. The two devs on the interview panel later asked deep questions around syncing issues, timestamps and more.

Round 2: PS/DS round
The interviewer told me to focus on showing me the process and that it's not needed to definetely answer the correct algorithm. The questions won't be from geeks or leet code type but will be more descriptive.

Round 3: Android round
The interviewer asked me deep questions on the work on my resume, we went into depth around dagger and koin, and then to recycler view, glide internals and some coroutines questions. Mostly stayed on my experience and work on my resume.

Round 4: Hiring manager
It revolved around the question to design a stock watchlist page and the architecture to use - whether MVVM or MVI. I was also asked what if I"m making a new project, will I choose compose or not?

Overall process is very good and the panel is knowledgeable.
Final decision: Accepted the offer.

Rejected the following:
Navi - https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/2031875/Navi-or-SDE-2-or-Bangalore
Paytm - https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/2031911/Paytm-or-SDE-2-or-Bangalore
Unacademy - https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/2031902/Unacademy-or-SDE-2-or-Bangalore
Meesho - https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/2031890/Meesho-or-SDE-3-or-Bangalore