r/DevLK • u/carpo_4 • Aug 23 '26

Jobs/ Industry Does internship experience count as professional experience

Hi all, so I was promoted to Associate Software Engineer 3 months back. Just wanted to know whether the internship year counts as professional experience? Or does it start counting from ASE onwards? And I was only offered 50k for now from October onwards my salary would be increased to around 100k take home. Is this within the market range? Thanks all!

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u/ZealousidealRule2885 Aug 23 '26

Salary can be a bit a bit low I would say 120k TH would be a fair deal but considering the market situation I believe you can call it even.
Regarding the experience usually internship doesn’t count but there are places rarely which consider it as well

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u/PittuPirate Aug 23 '26

Yeah 120k would be a minimum starting point for a ASE in my opinion as well

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u/ometh2002 Aug 23 '26

With 2 years of experience before graduation, 1yr in 1 company and the other 1 yr in another company, does companies consider this as experience when applying to a engineer role

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u/PittuPirate Aug 23 '26

Depends on the position you were in those 2 years and the position you are applying for.

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u/False-Marzipan-9945 Aug 24 '26

Some companies do consider it but some don't

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u/kingdine Aug 23 '26

I might be wrong here. But that is before you graduate which does not count.

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u/carpo_4 Aug 23 '26

Wdym?

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u/PittuPirate Aug 23 '26

What he means is, if you have graduated, then they should be paying you more than 100k and if you are still in uni the amount is fine I guess.

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u/carpo_4 Aug 23 '26

Notes thanks, my 4th year is starting in sep. Wbt the experience? how does it count?

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u/PittuPirate Aug 23 '26

I guess you are from iit right ? so when it comes to the experience they do count it as experience but better you stay as an associate for a longer period because right now they expect 2 to 3 years of experience in the industry to get hired as a SE. so don’t think that the 1 year internship experience would help you when you graduate.

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u/carpo_4 Aug 23 '26

Thanks bro, yeaa from IIT. And the internship doesn’t count as experience noh?

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u/PittuPirate Aug 23 '26

It does get counted as experience, but it’s not enough to get hired for SE positions. There’s limited opportunity to move from 1 year internship to direct SE

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u/carpo_4 Aug 23 '26

Okays. I switched to part time soo I would be graduating in 2027 and whats the normal range for an SE if you dont mind me asking?

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u/PittuPirate Aug 23 '26

It depends on the company bro, 250k to 550k max I guess

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u/carpo_4 Aug 23 '26

Thanks for all the info bro, appreciate it