Received multiple offers between May 2024 to September 2024. Sharing some details here.
Education: BTech (Tier 1 College)
Years of Experience: 2022 passout (FTE since June 2022 and 1 Year Internship experience prior to FTE)
Current Company : SDE 2 at Indian Startup
Current Compensation : 36 (25 Base + 2.5 Perf Bonus + 8.5 Lakh ESOPs)
#Offer1
Date of the Offer: May 2024
Company: Quizizz
Title/Level: Software Engineer
Salary: 30 lakhs
Signing Bonus: 1.5 Lakh
Retention Bonus: 1.5 Lakh
ESOPs: 22 Lakh for 4 years(25% each)
First Year total : 37 Lakh
#Offer2
Date of the Offer: June 2024
Company: Narvar
Title/Level: SDE 2
Base Salary: 30 Lakh
Signing Bonus: 2 Lakh
Perf Bonus: 3 Lakh
ESOPs: 24 Lakh for 4 years(25% each)
First Year Total : 41 Lakh
#Offer3
Date of the Offer: July 2024
Company: Godaddy
Title/Level: SDE 2
Base Salary: 28 lakhs
Perf Bonus: 2.8 lakhs
RSUs: 28Lakhs for 4 years(30-30-20-20)
Perf Base RSU: 5-6 Lakh
First Year Total : 45 Lakh
#Offer4
Date of the Offer: August 2024
Company: Salesforce
Title/Level: MTS
Base Salary: 35 Lakh
Signing Bonus: 2 Lakh
Perf Bonus : 3.5 Lakh
RSUs: 50k USD for 4 years(25% each)
First Year Total : 51 Lakh
#Offer5
Date of the Offer: September 2024
Company: LinkedIn
Title/Level: Software Engineer
Base Salary: 38 Lakhs
Perf Bonus : 3.8 Lakh
PF : 1.8 Lakh
RSUs : 68 Lakhs for 4 years(25% each)
First Year Total : 61 Lakh
#Offer6
Date of the Offer: September 2024
Company: Seed Stage Startup(8th person joining)
Title/Level: Founding Engineer (2nd Backend Engineer)
Base Salary: 45 Lakhs
Signing Bonus: 5 Lakhs
ESOPs : 0.5% ownership(current valuation: 12.5 Million USD)
First Year Total : 50 Lakh+ ownership
#Offer7
Date of the Offer: September 2024
Company: Stripe
Title/Level: L2 (SDE 2)
Base Salary: 48 lakhs
Signing Bonus: 4 lakh
Perf Bonus : 5 Lakh
RSUs : 36K USD Annually
First Year Total : 86 Lakhs
I accepted Stripe and LinkedIn only. Personally , Quizizz, Godaddy and LinkedIn were the friendliest of companies . It was great working with their recruiters. Open to AMA in comments.
