
What incremented salary should I ask for?
I work at a development agency based in NCR. Small headcount, Full WFA, laptop of your choice (I have a ROG), flexible timing, good Engineering focus and excellent culture all around.
My journey so far summarised:
- Joined in 2021 as an Android Engineer while still in College at 8 LPA
- Worked with an international edtech client, and received extremely positive feedback from their management.
- Learned a ton of new technologies, Android and otherwise, became more T-shaped
- Conducted a lot of research on Bluetooth AoA for an indoor mapping system
- Jan 2022, stellar feedback on Engineering, Communication and Management skills. asked for 3 LPA hike, got 4 (new salary: 12 LPA)
- Built a graph database based prompt recommendation engine for an internal generative AI product. Handled model deployment and other tasks too.
- Started working on a complex flowchart to a low-level firmware generation tool (Ongoing, super complex)
- Built another Android app for a major client
- Started managing a junior in a bid to build a large, new Flutter product
- Currently contributing to or leading at least 3 new major initiatives at the org
In the past two years, I have worked on Android, Generative AI, Embedded Software, Graph Databases and Flutter. Last year my CTO told me that I was on the track to Senior Engineering Management roles. Jan is here again, but I'm a bit apprehensive because of the market slowdown. How much salary should I ask for this year? I don't want to switch.

Ask, bedhadak! You ask for 18 then will come down to 16, if you ask 16 they will drag to 14-15

How much are people getting paid for your YOE and field of work? Then ask for it without a second thought.
They wont fire you for having high expectations, it is only natural. Go for the highest. They eventually settle for the highest they can provide. Dont shy if you’ve done the work year round imo.

