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Welcome to corporate paradise 🌸
WLB: Depends upon the project and your luck.
Paid leaves:
20 per year
+1 on your birthday (because one day is enough to celebrate your existence)
+1 on your anniversary (only if you’ve successfully convinced someone to marry you — otherwise, better luck next appraisal cycle)
Sick leaves: 15
But don’t forget — your immune system needs documentation reports from doctor
. No report = congratulations, you’re magically healthy so no sick leave provided
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Now let’s talk salary 💸
Current CTC: 10 LPA
Your expectation: 18 LPA
HR’s expectation: comedy.
Success depends on:
- Staying long enough in your current company (and no, 3 years isn’t loyalty, it’s “still exploring”)
- Having “niche skills” (translation: skills HR doesn’t understand but fears)
- Or having another offer (because self-worth is verified externally)
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Reasons you WON’T get 18:
- You are switching within 2 years (growth is illegal unless company benefits)
- HR didn’t “feel good vibes”
- Another candidature got recruited at lower salary.
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So what should you do?
Ask for 15 LPA.
And justify it like this:
“30% hike will push me into tax bracket and I can't make much takehome when compared to individual at 12.75 LPA.
So balancing at 15 LPA fixed.
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Got a counter offer?
Congratulations 🎉
Go ahead and ask 20% more — because now you’re “in demand”
If you are joining with in 30 days, you can ask for joining bonus too.
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If this is your first offer?
Stay humble.
Stay grounded.
Stay within the sacred 30–50% hike bracket blessed by corporate gods.
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Work from office:
3 days a week
6 hours minimum presence required in office (excluded for noida location)
Miss it?
You lose 0.25 leave per non complaince.
Capped at 2 leaves per month
Because nothing builds culture like penalizing attendance like school.
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End of the day:
You don’t choose the company.
The company, HR mood, market trend, tax slab, and your “vibes” choose you.
Corporate life — where logic is optional, but policies are permanent.
I was holding offer of 14LPA and i asked 18LPA the HR said they can only give 65k+ of the offer you are holding, he commented on my experience which is of 3.7 years not considering the notice period months which i am serving should i negotiate? Or just accept whatever i am getting if it's better?
I had 10 lpa and got 18 here
Slow ..not recommended