PrancingDonut
PrancingDonut
29mo
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Hardware engineers, let’s discuss salary

A post for sharing the salary and TC of hardware engineers in India. Post your TCs folks!

Below is mine. YoE: 9 Additional sign-on bonus RSUs: 78K USD

B2B

B2B

Hardware engineer

Bengaluru10 YoE
49.4 L / yr
40.0 Lfixed +
9.4 Lvariable +
0.0 Lstock
29mo ago
BubblyTaco
BubblyTaco

how are people earning so much? when’s my turn

WigglyMochi
WigglyMochi
29mo

Us bro us

PrancingDonut
PrancingDonut
29mo

Apna time aayega

CosmicUnicorn
CosmicUnicorn
29mo

What is your academic background and career trajectory?

PrancingDonut
PrancingDonut
29mo

It’s a bit weird.

Graduated from an IIT in 2014
CTC progression:

2014: 12 LPA
2015: 13 LPA
2016: 13 LPA (sign on bonus is no more and increase in base just about covered it up)
2017: 0 (quit job and started up)
2018: 0
2019: 21 LPA (startup failed and got a new job)
2020: 25 LPA
2021: 29 LPA
2022: 40 LPA (job switch)
2023: 95 LPA (job switch, including joining RSU annual vesting and joining bonus)

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