Overview

• After roughly four months without work and about 30 interviews, he joined a remote DevOps role at a small startup for ₹14 LPA after negotiating up from an initial ₹8 LPA offer.
• Nine days later, he resigned to accept a UK-based bank’s software engineer position at ₹15 LPA with a hybrid Bengaluru schedule and a better work-life balance.
• He sought advice from mentors and friends at Nvidia, Amazon, Zeta and Nutanix, who recommended taking the MNC offer for brand value and long-term trajectory.
• He acknowledged feeling uneasy about the swift exit but said he will stop applying elsewhere and aims to stay in the new role for 1.5–2 years.
• His Reddit post went viral, prompting supportive comments and practical questions about notice periods, early relieving and documentation that remain unanswered in reports.