On Thu, Jan 13 2011, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
[...] > everyone has a minimum - what I need to live in comparative luxury - > given that minimum is assured, then what is the criterion? Two companies, somewhat similar work and atmosphere - one paying 1.5 times the other. Which job would you take? In a place like Bangalore (and probably Pune, Hyderabad) where IT companies mushroom, they're all somewhat the same job and work culture wise, the differentiating factor is often money and companies don't like to publicise their crown jewels. I'll admit that there are *some* differences between the companies and some that stand out for reasons other than money but within a sector (e.g. services, networking gear, EDA etc.), they're all pretty much the same. Startups are probably different. Their aims are to attract talented people and they don't want money (which is what larger companies have in larger amounts) to draw away their workforce. So they offer "competitive" salaries. The exact amounts would depend on your experience and other things. What they mean is that what they offer you is roughly what you'd get in the industry anywhere so you don't need to worry about being paid less. Publicising something like "pay of 1L a month" would attract a lot of flies which they'd have to spend time and energy shooing away. OTOH, if they emphasise other things like work etc. and tell you that if you're satisfied with all that, salary won't be a problem, they'd have a better chance getting and retaining good people. -- _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
