Software engineering salaries

* Base Salary: 29 Lakhs Per Annum * Performance Bonus: 10% of base salary * ESOP: 14 Lakhs Per Annum

Company: HFT firm with 500+ employees Title: Analyst - DevOps Location: Bangalore Base Salary: 13L Bonus: 2L Total comp (Salary + Bonus): 15L

Education: Btech Tier 2ish Salary: 37L Fixed Stock bonus: $8K vesting for 4 years Bonus: 0-20% of Base (variable annual bonus performance based) Total compensation: 55L Benefits: Normal

I received an offer for an SDE II role at Microsoft. Location: Banglore. Base Salary: 29 Lakhs Per Annum. Total Compensation: 45.8 Lakhs Per Annum, including a $50K stock bonus vesting over 4 years and a variable annual bonus of 0-20% of base salary. Benefits: Standard.

My Years of Experience (YOE): 3 years Fixed compensation: 34 Lakhs Annual Bonus: 5.5-6.5 Lakhs

Company: JP Morgan Chase Role: Software Engineer 3 Line of Business: CCB Salary (Fixed): ₹29 LPA Annual Bonus: 10 - 12% (as told by recruiter, not mentioned in the offer letter) Stocks: No stocks Benefits: Standard JPMC benefits Total Compensation: ₹29 L

I have an offer for the role of Associate Software Engineer. The package includes 8 LPA base and a 50K retention bonus.

I received an offer for the role of MTS. The offer is for the Event Notifications Team. The base salary component is 18 LPA. Retirals are 1.08 LPA. The bonus is 8% of the base, amounting to 1.44 LPA. There are no stock options. A joining bonus of 1.5 LPA is included. Benefits include relocation assistance and standard Athenahealth benefits. The job location is Bengaluru. The total compensation for Year 1 is 22.02 LPA.

I accepted an offer for the Senior Software Engineer role with a total compensation of ₹52.43 LPA. My interview process included: Round 1 (DSA): Longest Common Prefix, Rotate Array by K without extra memory. Round 2 (System Design - Notification System): My solution included a Kafka-based event pipeline for scalability, idempotency, consumer groups for each channel, retries with exponential backoff + Dead Letter Queue, Load Balancer + API Gateway as an entry point, DB schema, and API design. Round 3 (Low Level Design): Extended the notification system with design patterns such as Strategy Pattern, Retry Pattern with Resilience4j, and Observer Pattern. Round 4 (Hiring Manager): Covered behavioral questions (conflict handling, deadline pressure), a deep dive into my American Express data pipeline architecture, and project trade-offs/design decisions.

I also have an offer of Microsoft L62.

My role is SDE-I (Full Stack). My base offer is 23 LPA. My variable compensation is 11% of base, which is 2.53 L. There are no stocks or joining bonus. My total compensation is 25.5 L.

I received an offer for Associate Software Engineer (III) - P3, Java Backend. The role is in the Wealth Management team. The work involves core Java Backend, dealing with real-time and concurrent systems. My fixed salary is 23 LPA. Retirals are 1.4L. I received a Joining Bonus of 1.5L. There is a 2L bonus (not eligible for the current appraisal cycle). My total compensation, excluding the Joining Bonus, is 26.5L.

I am seeking advice on salary negotiation with Freshworks. My experience is 5 YOE for a Senior Software Engineer role. I want to know a reasonable fixed pay and total compensation to ask for. I am seeking guidance on prioritizing fixed salary versus variable pay, bonus, or equity/RSUs. I am also interested in other negotiable items such as sign-on bonus, stock, joining bonus, notice payout, title, and role level. I am requesting Freshworks-specific tips regarding interview level mapping, compensation structure, and areas of flexibility.

I have received an offer from Wayfair for an L3 role. My current CTC is ~50LPA. The offered CTC is 72LPA, which is all base salary. I am seeking feedback on Wayfair as a company regarding Work-Life Balance (WLB), growth opportunities, and job security, especially since their development center in India is new. I also want to know if the L3 level is appropriate for my 8 years of experience or if I should negotiate for an L4 role.

I applied for this role via referral. My base salary offer is 23,00,000 INR. I received a joining bonus of 2,00,000 INR. Stock options are USD 35,000, vested equally over 4 years. My performance bonus is 3,00,000 INR, which may vary based on performance. A relocation allowance of 2,00,000 INR is also included. I heard that Work-Life Balance (WLB) at Uber depends on the team.

PayPal Software Engineer (Java Backend) YoE - 3.2 Fintech PBC Base - 26 LPA Bonus - 2.6 LPA RSUs - 15K USD over 3 years. Location - Bangalore Total Yearly Comp: 32-33 LPA

I received an offer for the Analyst (Technology/Engineering) role at Goldman Sachs. My base salary is ₹30.00 Lakhs INR. The offer includes ₹23 Lakhs INR in vesting stock, given as compensation for my losing stock component for one year. I will also receive a performance bonus of ₹5 Lakhs INR. My total compensation for year 1 is ₹53 Lakhs INR.

Education: ECE (Tier 3) Years of Experience: 7.5 Years Prior experience: SDE 2 PBC Prior compensation: ~ 60 LPA Date of offer: Sep, 2025 Company: Microsoft Title: L62 Location: Hyderabad, India Base: 40 LPA (including EPF) Annual bonus: ~ 4-6 Lac Joining Bonus: 5 first year + 2 second Relocation bonus: ~2 Lac Stocks: 100K USD over 4 years Total first year comp: (Base + PF + Bonus + Stocks) ~ 73 Lac Benefits: Standard MS benefits

I received an offer for the SDE 3 role at Flipkart. My base salary is 48 LPA. My variable pay is 15% of my base, approximately 7 LPA. My ESOPs are 28 Lakhs, equally vested over 4 years, contributing approximately 7 LPA for the first year. My total compensation for the first year is 62 LPA.

I received an offer for SDE 1 role. My base salary is 27 LPA. I am offered a 2 LPA signing bonus. I am offered 10 LPA in stock. The job location is Bangalore. This is a hybrid work model with 45 days work from home.

My education is B.Tech (Non-Circuital) from Tier-1. The offer date is July 2025. The offer includes a base salary of 52 LPA, Employer PF of 2.5 LPA, a signing bonus of 5,00,000, RSUs of $80K stock grant vested over 4 years (~17.5 LPA annually), and a target bonus of 5% of my base (2.75 LPA). My total compensation for the first year is approximately 80 LPA. I negotiated twice with a competing offer, and the recruiter stated this is their final offer. I am seeking suggestions on whether it's wise to join P3 (equivalent to SDE-2 elsewhere) at 4 YOE, or if I should aim for SSE positions after a year. I am skeptical because I've observed companies often require 5 YOE for SSEs but only consider candidates with 6 years in reality. I am also asking if anyone working at Docusign can share how long it takes to get promoted from P3 to P4.

Current CTC - 24 LPA Fixed - 14 LPA Variable - 2 L Retention - 7 L over 3 years YOE <2 Offer CTC - 32 LPA Fixed - 20 LPA Joining Bonus - 2 L Stocks - 10 L over 4 years

* Base Salary: ₹47,00,000 * Retirals (PF): ₹2,26,000 * Performance Bonus: ₹7,00,000 (Target: 15% of base) * Stock: $100,000 USD vested over 4 years (≈ ₹21,89,000 per year) * Signing Bonus: ₹6,50,000 * First Year Total Compensation (with signing bonus): ₹84.65 Lakhs * Annual Compensation (from 2nd year onwards): ₹78.15 Lakhs

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Stipend: 75,000 per month. Compensation after PPO: Base: 15L Joining Bonus: 3L Variable Pay: 1.2L PF and Gratuity: ~1L Total: 15+3+1.2+1 ~ 20.2L There were a total of four rounds in the selection process for the internship. The first round was an Online Assessment that consisted of MCQs (based on core Computer Science subjects) and two coding questions. The remaining three rounds were interviews. Online Assessment: The test consisted of 10 MCQs based on core Computer Science subjects such as OOPs, DBMS, OS, CN, and SQL. Each question carried 4 marks, with no negative marking. There were 2 coding questions: Problem 1: You are given an array and two integers, K and M. There is an operation where any number of elements in the array can be incremented by 1 in a single operation. This operation can be performed at most K times. The goal is to find the maximum number of elements in the array that can be made divisible by M after all operations. Problem 2: This was a LeetCode hard-level question based on Sliding Window and Binary Search. Reference: The question was [this one](https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-fruits-harvested-after-at-most-k-steps/description/) Round 1 – Technical Interview (35 min): Online round focused on core CS subjects — Data Structures, OOPs in C++, OS, and DBMS. No DSA asked. Included 4–5 MCQs and a puzzle. Round 2 – Professional Fitment (30 min): Offline round with a friendly and interactive interviewer. Focused on situation-based and behavioural questions like team conflicts, handling workload, fraud scenarios, and client issues. Also included "Why DB?" and your strengths/weaknesses. Round 3 – HR Round (25 min): Focused on behavioral and situational questions — future goals, regrets, mistakes, work pressure, and compensation. Ended on a positive and friendly note, with a handshake and mutual excitement about joining Deutsche Bank. Tips: Be clear about basics of programming. Brush up on CS subjects. Deutsche Bank focuses on personality, clearing the coding round was the toughest part.