Education: Btech in ECE
Years of Experience: 6
Current Compensation: 40 L CTC
Prior Experience: e-commerce

Date of the Offer: April 20124
Company: Newrelic
Title/Level: SSE
Location: HYD
Salary: Rs. 50 L
Relocation: Rs. 1 L
Retention Bonus: Rs. 2.5 L
Stock bonus: 0
Bonus: 6% performance bonus (paid quarterly from next year)
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): ~Rs. 52.5 L
Benefits: Nothing
Other details: Offer was given within a week, they said this is the best offer for my role and YOE.
Notice period: 2 months
Probationay period: 3 months

Verdict: Declined
Update: When I declined, they wanted to come back with better offer.

Good: Tech is pretty strong, a lot of learning but not sure of management and pressure. It's purely a tech company.
Bad: Newrelic fired last year in the US and now they are expanding teams in India.
Neutral: they went from public to private.

FYI: New Relic is one of the world's largest consumers of Kafka. New Relic's Kafka installation processes around 125 petabytes of data each month, or about three billion data points per minute. New Relic has been using Apache Kafka for over 10 years to power its large streaming platform, which ingests and processes observability data