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Recently, a Quora post asked something that we all secretly wanted to know. How much exactly can a software engineer earn in the country? If we had to calculate, what would be the highest salary of a software engineer in India?
Well, people debated and wrote a lot of answers. Here's what they said:
Praveen Annu, a software architect by profession claimed that it was unlikely that anyone who gets their hands dirty with code in India will earn more than Rs 30-35 lakhs per annum. He went on to state that product companies, where an engineer is required to write code would be more likely give Rs 30 lakhs per annum, while in service companies, a software engineer can earn anywhere between Rs 15-20 lakhs per annum. The reason the salaries are kept slightly lower is to maintain the cost of advantage and remain profitable. Then there are inhouse IT-support companies that recruit people to develop, manage and support their own IT systems. These companies pay around Rs 18 lakhs per annum.
However, he also added that it wasn't impossible for
Proving his last point, Sascha Thattil, a software developer stated that software engineers hired at e-commerce companies like Amazon and
Thus, it's a given that the highest salaries will be paid by companies like Google, which will not shy away from paying the same kind of salaries, which they pay in the
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