CURRENT -

Education : B.Tech in CS from Tier-3 college (2022 passout)
Current YOE : 2 year 8 months
Experience : SWE at an Investments firm + Intern at various Startups (SWE, ML, etc.)
Current CTC : 16.5 LPA (14.5 LPA BASE + 15% BASE as BONUS + etc)

OFFERED -

Company : British Telecom Group (BT Group)
Location : Bengaluru, India - 3 days WFO per week
Date of Offer : Feb 2025
Position : Data Scientist
BASE : 18.5 LPA
BONUS : 1.85 LPA (10% of BASE as BONUS)
Others (PF + Gratuity) : 1.4 LPA
CTC : 21.75 LPA

Benefits :

• Cab service to-and-fro, door to door
• Standard set of leaves

Didn't join BT Group as :

• The role was a SWE+ML kind of role, but I was targeting core DS role
• Pace of work and Growth opportunity is not much, very similar to what was happening in my current org.
• Received better offer from a top financial org :)

It was a very very tough journey switching from a SWE to a Data Scientist role, been trying to achieve so since past 1.5 years, finally succeeded.

Best of luck in your job search journey, may the force be with you !
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