Education: Btech in Computer Science
Years of Experience: 4.5
Prior Experience: SDE1 at Amazon(2.5 yrs)
Current Comp: 22+ LPA Fixed + RSUs(~8LPA)
Date of the Offer: Feb 2025
Company: Flipkart
Title/Level: SDE 2
Location: Bengaluru, India
Salary: Rs 28,00,000
Stock bonus: 96 stock units $16,734 stock grant vested over 4 years equally.
Bonus: Performance-based bonus up to 10% of salary every year
Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): ~Rs 34.5 LPA
Other details: Negotiated once and hard but it didn't worked. Was given two days to accept or decline the offer.
Update Mar 2025: I got another offer(week before my joining date) of 50+ lpa(38 base, ~15lpa stocks) per year. Then I negotiated with Flipkart and they were ready to match their (base+bonus) to 38 and stocks they were providing ~24 lakhs vested equally over 4 years. Thus making total of (34 base + 10% perf bonus + ~6 lakhs of stocks) making it arround 43-44 LPA.
Finally, I silently rejected(ghoseted) Flipkart's offer
Interview exp: https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/6112758/flipkart-sde2-bangalore-toupdate-2024-st-6ppp/