Software engineering salaries

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Interview scheduled for L4 position at Google. Candidate has 8+ years of experience but started focusing on DS recently. Candidate was previously earning 60+ LPA in contract roles. Currently jobless due to layoff.

Company: Meta Title: SDE-MLE E4 Location: Bangalore Base: 45L Joining Bonus: 7L Stocks: 120k USD Total CTC for 1st year: 78 Lakhs YOE: 5+ Years Date of Offer: March 2025

Education: B.Tech in Information Technology (Tier-3) Years of Experience: 3.5+ Prior Experience: Small startup Date of the Offer: Jan 2025 Location: Bangalore Salary: 28L Relocation: 3.25L Signing Bonus: 3L Stock Bonus: $30K stock grant vested over 3 years Bonus: 9% of salary every year + additional based on performance + $17K bonus stock target Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock + Extras): ~ 45LPA Benefits: Standard Qualcomm Benefits Other details: Did not negotiate

Role: Senior Data Engineer Base Salary: 27 LPA Joining Stocks: 15k USD vested quarterly in three years Performance Stocks: 9.75k USD Bonus: 2.025 LPA Work mode: 4 day WFO (soon to be 5 day WFO)

Company: Walmart Role: Software Engineer III (Equivalent to SDE2) Location: Bengaluru Base Salary: INR 23.6 LPA (Base + EPF) Signing Bonus: INR 3.5 LPA Stock Bonus: INR 6 LPA RSUs vested over 3 years (INR 2 LPA for 1st year) Performance Bonus: Up to INR 4.5 LPA Total Compensation: INR 33.6 LPA Benefits: 30 paid vacation days, 25K fitness reimbursement, 20K for medicines, cab services, Health Insurance, and other benefits Work Model: Hybrid (3 days office + 2 days WFH)

Education: B.Tech in ME Years of Experience: 1.4 Years Prior Experience: Working at a service based company. Date of Offer: Dec, 2024 Title/Level: Software Engineer (Backend) Location: Noida, India Salary: 11 LPA fixed Joining Bonus: 1 LPA Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 12 LPA (No stocks) Benefits: Standard benefits 25% hike based on previous CTC.

Education: B.Tech from Tier 3 Experience: 2.6 years at a Service-Based Company Current Designation: SDE-1 Offer Details: Base: 23 LPA Joining Bonus: 1 LPA Stocks: 4000 ESOPs vested equally over 4 years (estimated 5 LPA stock value) Total Compensation (First Year): ~29 LPA Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot (Backend) Team: Accounting team

Offer Details: Role: SWE 3 Location: Bangalore (Hybrid) Base: 17.5 LPA PF: 0.84 LPA Performance Bonus: 20% of base (3.5 LPA) RSU: 25% of Base (4.37 LPA) (Vested in 3 years) Relocation Bonus: 0 (Company covers flight tickets, hotel stays, and brokerage reimbursement) Perks: Cab Service, Free Food, Fitness Reimbursements Additional Notes: The candidate feels the recruiter is lowballing the offer. The candidate does not have competing offers. The candidate currently has remote work and will need to relocate to Bangalore. The company is requesting the candidate to join within a month.

Offer Details: Date of Offer: February 2025 Title/Level: SDE-2 (L61) Location: Bangalore, India Salary: 31 LPA Signing Bonus: 4 LPA (Year 1) + 2 LPA (Year 2) Stock Bonus: ~16.5 LPA/year Performance Bonus: 0-20% of base (assumed ~3.1 LPA) Total Compensation (1st year): ~55 LPA Total Compensation (2nd year): ~53 LPA Total Compensation (3rd & 4th year): ~51 LPA

Education: B. Tech in CSE (Tier 3 College) Years of Experience: 5+ Prior Experience: Product Based MNC Date of the Offer: 17th Feb 2025 Title/Level: SE2 Location: Bangalore Salary: 46,00,000 INR Base Relocation/Signing Bonus: 0L Stock bonus: $20k RSUs vested over 3 years Bonus: 15% Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 58.7L for first year Benefits: Standard (Free Food , free cab , travel reimbursement)

Education: B.Tech in Computer Science Years of Experience: 4 Prior Experience: Fullstack Software Engineer in PBC Date of the Offer: Feb 2025 Title/Level: SDE 2/L61 Fixed Salary: 28 LPA Relocation: 4 LPA Signing Bonus: 5 LPA Stock bonus: $45K stock grant vested over 4 years Bonus: Performance-based bonus up to 20% of salary every year Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): ~47 LPA 1st Year Benefits: Standard Microsoft Benefits Felt a bit lowball due to current compensation and no offers in hand. Although in last rounds of amazon L5 and google L4. Should I negotiate or wait for atleast another competing offer?

The post details a hiring drive experience at Uber in February 2025 for an L5-A role in Bangalore. Round 1 (DS/Algo): Print the correct order of execution for tasks based on a given dependency graph. Round 2 (DS/Algo): Modified number of islands problem. Round 3 (LLD): Design a task scheduling system. Round 4 (HLD): Design a system to get the nearest restaurants for a customer, focusing on DB schema and APIs using Cassandra. Key considerations included handling hot spots and scenarios with no nearby restaurants. Round 5 (HM): Typical managerial questions and a complicated design problem.

Education: B.Tech (CSE) Years of Experience: 5.5 Prior Experience: Leading FINTECH firm Offer Date: 11 Feb Level: Senior Engineer (L5) Salary: 37 LPA Fixed Relocation: Flights + accommodation Variable: 10% Joining bonus not available, only for immediate joiners.

Fixed salary of 22 LPA with a bonus of 0. 4 days/week work from office.

Education: BTech, CSE, Tier3 Years of Experience: 3.5 Prior Experience: SDE 2 at banking company Date of the Offer: mid Jan Company: Goldman Sachs Title/Level: Associate / SDE 2 Location: Bangalore Salary: 35L base including pf Relocation/Signing Bonus: 3L (signing) Stock bonus: 0 Bonus: 9L for first year (pro rated, becomes 7L for this year) Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 42 LPA Benefits: Gym, Medical including parents, cab etc Other details: - Did not accept the offer as I received another job with same comp but hybrid / remote

Base: 32.5L Perf Bonus: 12.5 % of base Joining/Sign-on Bonus: 0 Relocation: No Lumpsum Stocks: 45k USD

SWE VISA Education: B.Tech from Tier-3(ECE) Years of Experience: 1.2 yrs Prior Experience: Service Based Company Notice period :- 90 days Offer :- Visa Title/Level: SWE Location: Bangalore Salary: 1520000 (base) Stock bonus: null Bonus :- 10% PF :- 91k gratiuty :- 36k Total CTC: 1800000 INR / year

Years of Experience: 0 Education: B.E. in Computer Science Engineering from a Tier 3 College Company: Microsoft Role/Level: Consultant (L56) Placement Type: On-campus (Pool drive across multiple colleges) Date of Offer: October 2023 (4th Year of B.E.) Joining Date: May 2024 Location: Hyderabad (Fixed) Compensation Details: – Signing Bonus: ₹1,00,000 INR – Base Pay: ₹10,60,000 INR – Relocation Bonus: ₹3,00,000 INR (non-taxable) + ₹9,40,000 INR (one month basic pay) – Stocks: 4,000 USD (vested over 4 years) – Performance Bonus: 0-20% of base salary – Health and Hobby Reimbursement (Perks+): ₹9,30,000 INR – Food Credits: ₹2,00 per day – Medical Insurance: ₹5 Lakh employee + parents medical insurance (additional flex points available to increase this to ₹7 Lakh or convert them to Perks+) – Transportation: Buses and cabs to and from office – Joining Kit and Goodies: Year-end, participation, and team-specific rewards In addition to the salary, both the employee and employer’s contribution to the Provident Fund (PF) will be deducted from your monthly salary. Apart from this, you also receive a component called GP (Global Allowance), which is around ₹1,36,000 INR in your first salary. The entire tax for the year is deducted based on the tax regime (new or old) chosen, and the tax amount is approximately equivalent to the GP component of ₹1,36,000 INR. Therefore, you can consider that you won’t need to pay any tax in the first year, as the GP covers the entire tax amount. After accounting for PF and all other deductions, your take-home salary in the first year is approximately ₹97,800 INR per month.

Base - **31 LPA** ESOP - **20 LPA** for four years Bonus: **4 LPA** 1st year CTC - **40LPA**

Education: B.Tech. Tier-1 NIT Years of Experience: 1.5 years + 6 months internship Prior Experience: Company in same business sector (₹18.00 LPA salary; ~10% annual bonus) Base Salary: ₹25.00 LPA (including PF) Relocation: $2000 Annual Bonus: ~15% of salary Total Compensation (First Year): ~₹30.00 LPA (Salary + Bonus) Benefits: 22 paid leaves, unlimited sick leaves, gym membership

Intern 40k / month from Bangalore Need to leave my city PPO is already confirmed for (Associate SDE i.e. SDE1) and is good enough

Recruiter said this is the max they can offer, do anyone get better than below compensation ? Prior Experience: Product Based Company YOE : 2 years 5 Months Date-OF-Offer : December 2024 Base : 26 L (including PF) Joining Bonus : 2 L Stocks : 6.5 L ( 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%) Reallocation : upto 75k (Reimbursement) : hotels, flight etc. 1st year : 26 L + 2 L + 65 K = 28.65 L INR. 2nd year : 26 L + 1.3 L = 27.3 L INR [Assuming 0% increment] 3rd year : 26 L + 1.95 L = 27.95 L INR 4th year : 26 L + 2.6 L = 28.6 L INR. -------------------------------------- Other Perks (Per Year) : Gratuity : 62500 INR Health Insurance : 42,500 INR Life Insurance : 11083 INR

Campus Technology Internship Internship Stipend: 50k/mo