For Developers who moved into top-tier product roles with high packages what was your approach?
Edit : (if you have few minutes to comment then request you to please read the full post not only heading 🙂🥲 as I was not able to post heading exactly because of some redundancy and reddit filters were not allowing)
For developers who made a big jump in compensation, what worked for you?
I have around 4–5 years of experience overall. I started my career with Infosys and after that moved to two Fortune 500 product-based organizations. I’m currently working at one of them. My tech stack is mainly Java Full Stack, and I’m currently making around 20–22 LPA.
I’m planning to switch and want to target companies where I can move into the 45–50L+ range. I’ve started preparing DSA, System Design and the usual interview stuff. I’m not specifically looking at FAANG. I’m more interested in good product companies with strong engineering teams and compensation in that range.
I also wanted to understand how people here are finding remote opportunities with companies outside India, especially companies based in Europe, the US, Singapore, Netherlands, Switzerland, etc.
For people who are doing this, where do you actually apply? Are there any particular websites or job boards that have worked for you? Or is it mostly referrals and LinkedIn?
Also, how difficult is it to crack these international remote roles compared to high-paying roles in India? And how is the job security generally?
I’m also curious whether these companies give opportunities to travel to their country for work, team meetings or offsites for a couple of months in a year.
Would really appreciate advice from people who have made a similar switch. I’m mainly trying to figure out where I should be applying proactively instead of just waiting for recruiters to reach out.