Current CTC: 36 L Arista Network CTC: 45 L Reason: Mostly everything is fine at Qualcomm, this year promotion expectations to Lead SE. Should I ask for more CTC at Arista Network? #tech
More base pay is always better. But don't make a long stay at Arista, switch again in the next 2 years. I personally believe both Qualcomm and Arista are bad. But I don't like embedded stuff so that's just me.
There's a lot of teams at arista who don't work on the software that is responsible for packet forwarding and routing protocols. For those who do, a lot of the implementation is in userspace, so most people don't work on anything resembling 'Embedded stuff' in any capacity (the network operating system is largely based off linux).
Arista is better than qualcomm if you are in embedded software. But the bump is not good enough.
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The pay is less. If you are 100% sure you will be a lead Eng this year then why are you changing ? Lead TC is almost 55-60 Arista has a better WLB. You won’t get stock refreshers AFAIK. So your TC at Arista would be same for atleast 2 years.
36 to 45 is not worth the move for Hyderabad to Bangalore. Unless it is 55 or more it is not worth it. Reason - you will need to find a new place, settle down if you’ve family and kids, and so on. With the traffic, you will start feeling why the hell did I make such a move. Get great compensation such you will feel the move is worthy enough all the other pain you need to go through to settle down.