My wife moved to the bay area from India with me few months ago. She is an engineer turned designer turned Product Manager. She has more than 3 years of product experience at leading Indian FinTech firms and holds an MBA degree from reputed Indian campus. I was hoping that she won't particularly face difficulty in finding a job here especially with her visa situation all sorted out but it has been a rough ride frankly.
She got plenty of interview traction may be due to her unique diverse background but she was mostly considered for senior PM roles and then would get rejected on basis of someone more experienced suitable candidate got chosen over her.
I do understand the amount of context switch goes on with product roles moving across the geography but still its a rough position competing with candidates with local experience here.
Nonetheless she managed to land an offer this week from a "HR & business compliance & training" start up but her compensation doesn't seem to reflect her experience level. She is going to be making 120k + 5-6k stock options.
Based on overall experience we had so far I think we will be moving ahead and tackle the issue of lack of local experience and get back to job market in the background in a bit.
Apologize for the long post but really looking for hearing on similar experiences and insights on this situation from product folks.
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To clarify I'm not really looking for opinions/judgments, we get plenty of that from the job hunt experience so far, but to hear more on similar experiences and learned insights but all are welcome of course.
$120K base is low, but not unheard of for a 3 yoe candidate.
Has she tried to apply to new grad roles?