Real salaries from Bangalore tech

It seems like there is no hiring at all!

Cred engineering bar remains one of the highest in BLR. 4 rounds of coding + 1 design + 1 bar raiser. Expect 35-45L base at mid level.

ML Engineer market heating up post GenAI wave. Folks with RAG / LLM infra experience seeing 2x jumps in switch.

Zoho pay is still stuck at pre-2020 levels but the WLB is real. Net take-home after Chennai COL is better than many BLR product cos.

Flipkart paused SDE2 hiring for Q1 per my recruiter. Referrals still going through but freshers are on hold.

Design roles in fintech (Cred, Razorpay, Jupiter) now comparable to SDE2 comp. 30-45L TC range for 4-6 YOE Sr Designer.

Juspay bar is deceptively high — strong functional programming bias. Haskell helps. Pay is good but ramp is steep.

PhonePe is hiring aggressively across all levels. 3 people from my team got offers last month. Good ESOP structure too.

Got ghosted by Swiggy after Round 4. Seems like they are being very selective right now. Interview process is heavy — 6 rounds for SDE2.

Nvidia Bangalore is quietly on a hiring spree. Stock is up 3x in 2 years, TC offers for Sr are comfortably 1Cr+.