25 LPA after BE in CSE

Now a days getting an annual package of 25+ is not a great thing. I can say it because I am earning and many of my peers too are.
 

If you include all compensation which are cash: bonus and base plus stocks. People get those in 3–4 years of experience. Excluding stocks 25+ in 5–6 years.

 

The only catch is never stick to a company or tech/skill for more than 1–1.5 years. I am a test engineer so I kept on upgrading the manual and automation skills. Along with that I never joined a company which had similar product in which I currently was working on. For dev role people acquire multiple skills.
 

When I joined my first company I started looking out from day one as graduating from tier 3 college with very average marks its always difficult for 1st jump. And then after that I never stick to one. You are always going to work then why not work for a better pay. If your current company is giving good hike (as a fresher consider good as 20+%) then consider otherwise never do.

Where people fail is starting for the 1st switch late and even worse is getting settled down in the 2nd own. But those who don't are those who crosses the mark. I have 6 years experience and in my 5th company. I crossed 20 mark including stocks in my 4th company at 3.9 years experience and left the same after 2.3 years when my compensation was somewhere around 32.5 give or take based on stock price. Cannot share the new company's salary though.

All the best and Never Settle. Love your work not the company.
 

Edit 1: Most people have doubt what to say if company asks for you have been changing so frequently?
 

What I usually follow is:

For the case when you have applied, I try to get information about the product which I will be working on and tell them why this role is suited for me and what value add it gives. Even though the changes are soon
 

If the recruiter has initiated the interview on his own that means they have gone through your profile. In this case you can directly confront them saying if the product and work is really good as mentioned in the JD you will be staying for long. Usually the JD has most of the buzzwords which you won’t be working on and they do the same as it was done by your current recruiter. In most of the cases they won’t ask this question.
 

Edit 2: How do I switch and what path should I follow?

If you want to switch where are you going to. What will be the target technology or product (company) for the switch?

If it’s initial, try to learn in the field that interests you. There are tons of courses and material available. Just for the sake of I need to switch because people does that. Is not going to get you anywhere.

If you think you are good at something then try to get the similar work in the current organisation or try outside. For me, I always focused on Core java and automation skills even though I didn’t work on automation till my 3rd company but was confident enough to crack an interview based on that.

You can plan for what is the target for you. This will help you a lot to decide on when and how to switch.
 

Edit 3:People have been sending me PM with just 1 or 2 liners as please guide me to change job or move from manual to automation testing. Humble request to them is I am not a career counselor who will reply to your one liner. It is you who has to to take up the task. Just because someone changed every year you too have to do that. You should find your own steps to move forward.

There is no simple answer to the questions like please help to change job. I don’t even know what you do and what your skills are. No one can help in such questions. Please make your own judgement to do that. If any queries are there which can be helped will be happy to do so.

-Shaswat Deep