Breakout List - India

What company should I join?

“If you join a company, my general advice is 
to join a company on a breakout trajectory.”

— Sam Altman, President at Y Combinator

Why?

The Original Breakout List-US has been used by thousands of engineers to identify great companies to join.

It focusses on United States based companies and not all great engineers can move there. Thanks to Sir Obama and Trump, lot of good engineering companies have opened Indian offices recently or started taking Indian markets more seriously.

We've curated some of these high tech companies, Indian or not, but doing software engineering in India.

Career Notes for Ambitious Engineers and Designers

Emerging Breakout Teams in India

Each ₹ is a range of 10 lakhs, so ₹₹ means 10-20 lakhs per annum and ₹₹₹ means 20-30 lakhs per annum and so on

Name	Notes	Starting Pay (lakhs per annum, CTC)	Product	Location
Mad Street Den	strong growth, well funded, one of the few companies to actually do AI	₹₹	Computer Vision for fashion under the brand vue.ai	Chennai, TN
Ather Energy	Has built a brand in India as a hardware/automobile business	₹₹	India's premier Electric 2 wheeler maker	Bengaluru, KA
Nutanix	Hires from top colleges, fast growing team, working at Nutanix, India	20+	Cloud Platform	Bengaluru, KA
Qubole	Campus Hires from top colleges, ex-Facebook co-founders, work culture at qubole	10+	Cloud Data Platform	Bengaluru, KA
Freshworks	India's most valuable, and among the fastest growing SaaS companies; strong growth, work culture video	₹	--	Chennai, TN
Sharechat	Among the fastest growing social network companies in India; strong growth	₹	Social Network in Regional Indian Languages	Bengaluru, KA
Postman	strong growth, team, work culture at postman	₹	developer tools; API Development environment	Bengaluru, KA
Udaan.com	ex-Flipkart cofounders, $10M in fundraise, work culture at Udaan	₹₹	marketplace for traders, wholesalers, and manufacturers	Bengaluru, KA
	$4.5M in funding, technical founders with ex-Google experience, themselvers hackers, team and work culture	₹₹	talent assessment for developers, testing platform, organizes hackathons	Bengaluru, KA

Non-Indian Companies

Being defined by the Office HQ and Origin of Founding Team

Name	Notes	Starting Pay (lakhs per annum, CTC)	Product	Location
Uber	Campus Hires from top colleges, fast growing team, 10/10 for growth, work culture at uber	₹₹	Car Rides	Bengaluru, KA
GoJek	Young, new office in India, hiring process, work culture at gojek	₹₹	Car, Bike Rides in East Asia	Bengaluru, KA

High Paying Dev Jobs

Name	Notes	Starting Pay (lakhs per annum, CTC)	Product	Stage	Location
Amazon	AWS, Prime are best teams to work for, opportunity to grow quickly, some later move to Seattle, US; press coverage on work culture	27	ecommerce, cloud	Public co.	Bengaluru, KA
Tower Research Capital	Hires the best of the best	30+	Financial Services, Trading	Late	Gurgaon, NCR
Directi - Platform Engineer	Likes competitive programmers, work culture	25+	Hosting, Infra, Web	Late, started in 1998	Mumbai, MH
@Samsung Research, Bengaluru - Research roles	usually better work than Samsung Delhi/Noida, work for Advanced Technologies Lab if you can, avoid Bixby, IoT	25	Electronics, Machine Learning, Software Engineering	Public co.	Bengaluru, KA
Flipkart	Slow growing, reduced innovation compared to earlier years, best teams to work for are F-lite in apps, data infra, data science; work benefits	27	ecommerce	Late	Bengaluru, KA
Goldman Sachs	likes to hire top GPA folk from top colleges, work for platform teams which work on data science pipelines	30+	banking	Public co.	Bengaluru, KA
VISA	likes to hire from top colleges	20+	payments, transation authentication	Public co.	Bengaluru, KA
Microsoft	stable engineering teams, Microsoft Research is the best to work for, Microsoft IT the worst, IDC has good roles in Azure	15+	windows, office, azure	Public co.	IDC in Hyderabad, Research in BLR
Sprinklr	stable engineering team, lot of people quit early because of work culture, small data science working on text and vision is the best	25+	social media, customer service tools	Public co.	Gurgaon, NCR
Oracle	stable+old engineering team	22, used to pay 12	databases	Public co.	Benglauru, KA

Exciting Non-profits that I have heard about

Name	Notes	Cause	Approach	Location
Udhyam Learning Foundation	focused on entrenpreneurial mindset, extremely well-established team	learning, mindset	classroom, bootcamp style program	Bengaluru, KA

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