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I had my interview with Infosys for .net full stack developer.
It went well and i am hoping for a positive response.
Want to know how much should I expect Or at what pkg should I negotiate with them.
I am thinking of proposing 13-15 LPA negotiable.
4 YOE and 7 LPA currently
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As an associate, “eat what you kill” is an odd way to phrase that, but I get what you’re saying. And I’d avoid that— constantly having to seek out work is at best irritating and at worst can be an absolute disaster.
Seconded. Constantly having to seek out work is the worst thing.
If it were me, I'd go for the practice area I prefer. If equal, go for the 1900 hours. Eat what you kill places are awful.
I like complex lit more anyways so I would choose the 1900. Those 100 hours are a big deal too - especially now that I have kids. But honestly, what do you want to do in 10 years? This choice will help guide you there. If you want government experience then you know the answer. If you want to be in a law firm in 10 years doing complex lit then you know the answer.
I would go with the complex lit role. Sounds like a better place to work and both places will train you in different ways to go in house.
If you want to go in-house, the white collar practice will be WAY more useful because there are a lot more investigations/compliance jobs in-house for a corporate white collar defense lawyer than there are lit jobs for a commercial litigator. Not even close. In white collar, as long as you are defending companies and not individuals, your practice will be circling around DOJ expectations for corporate compliance programs, a very valuable skill to have in-house. Lit jobs in-house are more limited and once you are there you are mostly managing outside counsel. My biglaw experience was initially lit, then I switched to FCPA investigations/compliance; now that I am in-house actually help build compliance programs and do investigations and I am able to do that across industries (healthcare first, now tech).
For those of us who did not go the transactional route, you need to be very strategic if you want to have the in-house route available and not think simply about the hours requirements in the short term. Whether you will have enough work to survive in the white collar role you have on the table is certainly something that merits thought but if you are willing to bet on yourself that you will prove your value you should be able to get enough work to supplement what your mentor will feed you. And while that commercial lit job claims to be able to feed you a full plate of work that can change at any time...the reason I switched from lit to FCPA was because my firm was national counsel for a large company and it got acquired by an even bigger company that had its own outside counsel, so we got dropped the day the acquisition was finalized and we had 100+ full time billers that were told pencils down...