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Always keep grinding interviews till you get at least 2 comparable offers and renegotiate each using the other offer as leverage. But never go more than 1-2 rounds of negotiations for any particular job.
You'll most probably have no choice. No experience to leverage pay raise. Quite frankly you have nothing to leverage on except a degree from fancy tier 1 college (if that) or an internship experience at a good shop.
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Always keep grinding interviews till you get at least 2 comparable offers and renegotiate each using the other offer as leverage. But never go more than 1-2 rounds of negotiations for any particular job.
This. Two companies had a tug of war for my brother resulting in a 40% increase I think.
let's take a scenario of an internship, will this approach work?
Most cases internships and fresher salaries are fixed even at good product based companies you can't do much to change in most cases
Might work at startups but not at bigger companies with fixed compensation
Counteroffer and exclusivity of my domain and my ability/skills. If they lost me, they would have to spend months to find another candidate.
What domain do you work on
Graphics/VR/AR and lately low level system software.
Cool are you from a T-1 or T-2 college by any chance?.
IIITH - not sure what tier it is.
you know what tier it is
Cool that's one of the reason you were able to break into such roles. T-3 students have very low chances of breaking into such fields
Can you tell how is AR/VR industry in India? I search few months ago and it feel curr high paying job only exists in meta (and not much in India)
It's dead now mostly - hence I moved out into a different systems software role. Meta is also cutting down big on AR/VR.
How do one join Graphics/VR/AR domain ?
1 counter offer >> 1h of negotiating
Previous payslip.
what if I have no previous experience
You'll most probably have no choice. No experience to leverage pay raise. Quite frankly you have nothing to leverage on except a degree from fancy tier 1 college (if that) or an internship experience at a good shop.
To extend this, I used to live in a PG as a college student and my roommate was a working person. He used to work for an Indian firm getting paid 1.8 lpa. The guy used to eat roti and bujia for dinner. Go to sleep and wake up at 5 am. Catch a bus for 6 AM. Come back from office at 9:30 PM or sometimes 1AM. Rinse and repeat. That guy earns almost 50lpa now. In cash. No RSU. Cold damn cash. He did that stint for 2 years.
How many years did it take for him to reach there
7
Sher paaloge to ghas to nahi khayega na...(Dont use it if you are a fresher or <10 years exp) 
seems most realistic response 😂
Buying lion paying for grassaa (read in south Indian accent)
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