Need career advice from experienced folks.

I have 4+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer and currently work at Infosys.
I have two offers, both at 11 LPA:
* TCS
* Covasant
TCS seems more stable, but I’m worried about getting into a comfort zone. I want to grow technically and build strong Automation/SDET skills while I’m still early in my career.
Covasant offers product exposure and better learning, but I’m concerned about job security given the current market and startup layoffs.

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TCS anyday brother

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Demand for SDET in product based comapanis has grown a lot as I have observed in the past few years.
I would suggest try to get into product companies where you can ask for twice the salary and very good exposure.
It's not that hard I switch form Cognizant to Druva data solutions which was saas unicorn in backup and restore the learning was imense but value increased multi fold.
fast forward 5 years I worked in cyber security where I met founding x-founding enginner of a comany that was aquired by this comany.
He joing an AI startup later and pulled me in no interview purely based on connections.

For you try to do some DSA you can leave graphs and DP.
Upto trees should be fine.
Most comapiens are language agnostic so you can take the interview in prefered laguage. And if you're concerned about the Job security I can not denay the yearly firing at mid and even MNC Product comanies every year but usually they try to fire senior people you get paid a lot more.

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