College - 2023 passout (Older IITs ), Non-circuital
Experience - 1.2 years at Fintech Startup, Pune
SDE 1
Current Compensation - 17 base + 20% perf bonus + 1lac retention + 2.7 esops(vesting 5 years)
Last year i got the best hike (33%) and perf bonus (17.75%) - Base went up from 13 to 17
My journey has been really great so far now. I interned at Microsoft but did not get PPO.
So, worked on my skills a lot and then had one offer in march from an edtech startup
(19 base + 10% perf + 1 jb) but continued at the current startup.
Current Offers (In chronological order) -
1. Meesho SDE 1:
Base - 22
Esops - 14
No perf bonus and no joining bonus.
Location - Bangalore
2. Jio Cinema SDE 1:
Base - 23.65
10 % perf bonus
JB- 2 Lacs
No esops
CTC - 28 LPA
Location - Bangalore
3. MindTickle SDE 1:
Base - 22.72
10% Perf bonus
JB-1 lac
Esops - 800 units (worth 10 lacs approx.)
CTC - 36 (including esops)
Location - Bangalore
4. Dream11 SDE 1:
Base - 28
JB - 5.6 lacs(clawback 2 years)
No perf bonus but annual hikes are very good
Esops - 12 lacs (strike price is 0 $), so total win for me
Location - Mumbai
Meesho updated offer after they got to know i am not going to join them because of lowball on esops -
Base -22 as this is highest base for sde 1
Esops - 18
But team and manager looked shady although he was my college senior so decided to let go although i was looking to move to bangalore, but dream11 looked better because of learning as well.
Also almost everywhere i got calls directly from recruiters as i was not looking for change and was not practising rigorously for change, once i got offer from meesho i decided to try for multiple offers in bad market.
Although i received rejections from Qualcomm (round 1 because of bad interviewer ),
Apollo.io 2nd round(couldnt memory optimise 2nd dsa question, bad luck)
Bar Raiser (2nd LLD round rejection, interviewer was an arrogant amazon guy didnot clarified the requirements and was adament to his solution then why are u having lld round)
Overall, I am lucky and grateful to the community here at leetcode. I used to practice questions from interview experience and always wanted to put my multiple offers wala post was not knowing i will get so sooner.
Will be contributing regularly to leetcode community and
will post all the interview experiences in coming days.
I am grateful to god for being so kind to me after that ppo setback.