YOE - 4.5 years Currently sse at paytm and Expecting Promotion next year at paytm. Going to get an offer from inmobi for sde2. I want to explore more tech before I get promoted to lead position within a year to meet career goal. What opinion do you people have or any suggestions considering YOE 4.5?
Promotion can give you a good hike and a title. But the title is not worth a lot as companies have their own titles and ultimately it comes down to leetcoding. Make sure the inmobi hike is way too good to be able to offset your paytm hike. Also, don't be too sure of promotions - Managers mislead most times and seeing your experience unless you are a star performer in the team and no TLs already in the team, that might not happen.
Try other companies as well like msft, google, Amazon