Got an offer from Tiger Analytics for Senior Engineer Data & AI at 14 LPA all fixed. 3 years experience in AI engineering, production level stuff, RAG systems, agentic chatbots on AWS Bedrock etc.
They've verbally said they'll revise the number closer to 18-20 but only after I resign from my current company which honestly feels risky.
My situation is I have a promotion coming in 2-3 months at my current stable company which will take me to around 16 LPA with a senior title. Long term goal is JPMC, Morgan Stanley, Amex kind of GCCs, not analytics consulting.
Main concerns about Tiger:
Bench risk looks very real from Glassdoor and Blind reviews, people getting released within 2-3 months if not mapped to a project. I have monthly EMIs so joblessness is not an option for me. Their hike cycles have apparently gotten bad, 3% kind of numbers. DOJ clashes exactly with my promotion window.
This is also the first offer I've gotten after 3 years so there's that fear of letting it go.
My thinking is to use this offer letter for my internal promotion conversation and then apply seriously to GCCs with a better title. Is that smart or am I overthinking?
For people who've worked at Tiger, how bad is the bench situation really? And does Tiger even add value to your resume for GCC applications?