[madmax108]

Just to clarify, salaries in India differ VASTLY across companies, FAANG or otherwise, depending on whether the org looks at the India center as a cost-saving measure, or as a secondary RnD center. And also, if the org is more services based (the notorious Infy/Wipro/Accenture types) or actually building products. The latter almost always pays more.

I'm a non-IIT Masters graduate with 3.5 years of experience and I work at the India center of a non-FAANG US-based company, and I make more than @sures made with 10 YoE (leaving aside stock options as well).

Salaries are higher in cities like Bangalore and Pune, but even there the salary ranges are very varied, so it's difficult to get a representative sample. Funnily, if you check on Glassdoor (for what it's worth), you'll find companies (both Indian and US/UK-based) where Director of Engineering in India as much as I make with <4 years of experience.

Also, Indian companies are notorious for asking previous salary details/payslips etc before making offers. As such, if you start off at the lower end of the spectrum, you spend a lifetime playing catch up. Usual hikes between job switches is about 1.4-1.6x, so the 2x jump @sures got in 2015 is also not that common (Well negotiated @sures!) :)

[sures]

Good point. One more point - salaries differ vastly in the same company too.

These days it happens in many companies that a very senior folk with 10+ years experience makes something like 2000000 INR (28000 USD) but a fresh college undergraduate is made an offer that is 3000000 INR (41000 INR). It sounds contradictory and pisses the senior folks off but that's the reality of the Indian IT market today.

[fjsolwmv]

Are those senior folks less skilled in relevant areas, or does something makes them unable to renegotiate or change jobs?

[arun6582]

are you giving factual information or are just pissed off on tier 1 college freshers getting such salary. Not every fresher get such salaries

[sures]

I agree not every fresher gets such salaries. The actual figure depends on the company. A company could be paying less to a fresher. Is 1500000 rupees or 2000000 rupees a good number for you? Then in the same company it is possible that there are people with 10+ years of experience who are earning 5% to 25% less than that.

But my 3000000 rupees example is not unusual. You can see madmax108's comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18343962 where he was earning more than 3500000 without being from IIT in just 3.5 years of experience. Not a fresher exactly but when I had 9 years of experience I was earning less than that!

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18343659 where someone says fresher salaries of 60000 USD (4400000 INR). So I don't think my example is unusual.