Microsoft, India
Education: Btech, IT
Years of Experience: 4.5
Prior Experience: SDE2 at a PBC
Date of the Offer: May 2024
Company: Microsoft
Title/Level: SDE2, L62
Location: India
Salary: 40LPA
Signing Bonus: 3 lakhs
Relocation Bonus: 0
Stock bonus: $62k vested equally over 4 years
Bonus: 0-20% of base
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 60LPA for first year.
Benefits: Standard Microsoft benefits.
Agoda, Bangkok
Date of the Offer: May 2024
Company: Agoda
Title/Level: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Bangkok
Salary: 160K THB/mo
Signing Bonus: 320k THB
Relocation Bonus: 0
Stock bonus: NA
Bonus: 320K THB
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 25.5M THB(~59L INR) for first year, 22M THB from then(52 LPA INR)
Benefits: 1 month free accomodation + Flight tickets + Visa & Work permit + other standard Agoda benefits.
I am interested in Agoda more as I am inclined towards experiencing different country at this age and Bkk is close to India as well. However, even though I had mentioned by expectations intially as 175k THB, I still got offered only 160k(increased from 150k in the initial discussion), even with a strong rating in the interviews.
Currently, I have asked them some more time to think about it before I even accept the offer verbally. I plan to send them an email again asking for more money(specially due to the competing offer). How much more should I ask?