The recruiter reached out to me over the phone and asked if I was interested in the role of IC, since I am an Engineering Manager at present. I was absolutely fine, as the role was purely technical and something I wanted to pursue. After two technical rounds of an hour each and two managerial rounds of 45 minutes each, there was an HR round where the HR was hell-bent on establishing his point that I am new to the domain. I asked for a nominal 25% raise from the current CTC. After this, the HR, who was previously talking normally, just replied, "I will get back to you," and ended the meeting without a proper thank you. The next day, the recruiter reached out and gave the numbers, which were lesser than my current pay.

Note: The expected CTC was well under the market standards by at least 15%.

Declining the offer politely was the best thing I could do.

Concepts of multithreading

Reactive programming

Mentoring and managing a team

Inter-team collaboration

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