Hiring for a bunch of roles for an early stage startup. Salaries of people who have been laid off is through the roof
2-3 years experience asking for 30-40l and while we chose not to judge the experience and spoke to a few of them, most of them are not even worth half of the pay.
Many are jobless since last 2-3 months and none of them are willing to take a paycut of even 5-6L and are willing to stay jobless ( probably have a ton of savings )
Market correction is necessary.
Roles : PM, software engineers, generalists
There's absolutely nothing wrong with salaries.
What's wrong is, your inability to filter candidates based on your requirements (read YOE vs Salaries vs Resume Filtering).
Projecting a problem that you have on others is not going to solve your problem.
30-40L for 2-3 years of experience is something you should be willing to pay for only exceptional talent. Exceptional talent would mean building quick products with near zero customer escalations and ability to do quick RCAs for difficult escalations for a software engineer. Do not cower to mediocre entitled pricks.
When we can't get value for skills, doesn't mean we should pull down people who have. It's the mindset that needs to change
That's not true, have spoken with over 7 profiles in last 3 days. Most dont have the skills to command the pay
Probably, startups poached many during 21-22 boom. Anyone and everyone was getting fat cheque coz they marketed themselves well. And you wanted to highlight that, but it came across as shooting down salary
Swe salaries inflated around the world not just in india.
I agree with your points to some extent.
I think the reason is also that we worked like an ass for good 3 years for good 12-16+hrs everyday when the demand was there!
Demand was no created by swe's and not every company just flashed money on us.
World moved to digital.
Now, digital products are not required in that amt plus cash is gone.
But one thing is still expected out of us is the long working hours. 12-14+.
so even if you are hiring a guy with 2-3 years of exp and interview skills are not aligning to that extent what he is asking for, he still might have the ability to deliver things.
Plus he has to put in long hrs for corporate's extra time demand.
Time sheet for 8hrs and actual work for 12+ hrs.
This. People only seem to see the salary side of things being inflated over the last three years. They don't see that COVID blurred a lot of lines and made people work long hours. Now they want the salary to go down but still expect the same output as COVID. You can expect what you want but atleast don't put down other people because of it.
Tell me one other field who worked tirelessly other than swe's and ui/ux designers who were popping their eyes out and gave up their health so much!
None!
Did fashion designers pumped in 15-16hrs daily for 3 years ?
Did finance guys, marketing guys, field people, etc worked that much?
Did they suffered from physical health issues like digital eye stain, fatigue, gain weight by not getting personal time at all ?
Did anyone else suffered issues like we did ?
Did corporates extended timesheets officially ?
They forced us.
Increase increase in salaries can be justified by adjusting billable hours easily.
If corps are so ethical, they should pay for every extra hrs we put in to work.
But no!
They fired everyone who raised their eyebrows in the name of efficiency. That we are not able to do the extra tasks with impossible deadlines.
We suffered when we were laid off!
We have families and responsibilities too!
The runway/emergency funds people created by slogging our asses is already gone for lacs of swe's.
Going forward, if you corporates have to adjust the inflated salaries, they should come back to the same timeline for deliverables and stick to 8hrs of billing with and 1hr lunch break in between.
If the corporate can do that, swe's will also be ready to settle for less.
PM's do not deserve the salaries they've been getting right now. It's absolutely exorbitant.
I know someone who had absolutely zero technical experience. Went to ISB after faking that he ran a startup for 2 years, got placed at meesho and is making 50L CTC.
I mean it's absolutely ridiculous how inflated tech salaries have become. Super glad people are getting laid off and extremely happy market correction is going on.
These PM need to go back and learn some skills first. Idiots.
Why rant only about PMs here? When anyone from any field can become a clout and take hefty salaries.
Guess, who is jealous about PMs making good salaries?
@Yabadabadoooo your stupidity is enormous. Cherry picking anecdotes from personal life doesn't justify the claim you're making about salaries.
You're glad about people getting laid off.. what's wrong with you bro?
"Won't pay 30L" but expect you to work 12-14 hours. Along with the money the work hours also inflated during COVID so they'll also come down with salary.
I don't like OPs attitude; he is not valuing Devs' contributions but is able to justify his own role (mostly on a more significant pay check) in BYJU's due to the scale it has grown into. He thinks that BYJU's exponential growth with no clear vision on profitability is a stand out metric and things going wrong has nothing to do with the team there.
IMO this is an amateurish view. He needs to do some further introspection and learnings from the 'failed stint' there before starting up another venture and going down that same path.
@SnapeSkywalker Strong statements for someone working at Swiggy. Zomato has out executed Swiggy in spite of starting delivery business later, consuming lesser capital. Should we then assume that everyone working at Swiggy is not talented and worthy?
Byjus has built something but ended up reaching a valuation that the underlying market cannot justify and is now imploding. But Swiggy is also sitting on a valuation that is difficult to justify.
Reality is both organizations have built some value with a lot of blood and sweat of a large number of people. Eventual outcomes are dependent on so many variables which cannot be completely controlled by anyone.
@SorryYaar Don't want to go into a hypothetical debate about justifying the valuation of Zomato & Swiggy. You should read about the growth of Revenues and Unit Economics for both the companies in the past 2-3 years, that should answer your question about "justifying valuation".
Can you say the same about BYJU's?
Also my comment is in response to OP's multiple arrogant comments in this thread. I agree that there have been many factors contributing to BYJU'S downfall and "unsustainable business growth" has to be one of the leading factors among them.
Had to happen someday. Glad it's happening and will keep happening for sometime...the exorbitant amount being paid between 2020-2022 is easily the biggest scam that nobody talks about... everything with VC money and with no real businesses or skill sets of folks being hired ...
I guess it was the demand supply game. Right now there is a lot of supply. So hoping things would change
Yup, pretty much like it and to be frank things are already changing and folks who had astronomical salary expectations are finally coming back to earth
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