{
  "name": "HikeCatalyst open career-outcome data",
  "description": "Verified IT job-switch outcomes and interview-question corpus coverage, published openly. Every switch is a named candidate with a public LinkedIn profile.",
  "publisher": "HikeCatalyst",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "updated": "2026-08-27",
  "methodology": "The full published set of candidate outcomes, not a sample. Packages are self-reported fixed CTC in INR. Hike percentage is (new - old) / old computed per candidate. n=14 is small and is stated rather than smoothed; the median is the headline and the mean is reported alongside it.",
  "caveats": [
    "n=14. Too small to segment by city, role or experience band without misleading.",
    "Median hike is not the ratio of the median before- and after-package; those are separate order statistics over the same rows.",
    "Self-reported compensation, verified only against the candidate's own public profile."
  ],
  "summary": {
    "switches": 14,
    "median_hike_pct": 147,
    "mean_hike_pct": 161,
    "min_hike_pct": 56,
    "max_hike_pct": 250,
    "median_offers": 4,
    "median_weeks_to_offer": 11,
    "questions_total": 5000,
    "roles_covered": 25,
    "topics_covered": 366
  },
  "hike_by_domain": [
    {
      "domain": "SRE",
      "count": 1,
      "medianHike": 250,
      "medianOffers": 7
    },
    {
      "domain": "Mobile",
      "count": 1,
      "medianHike": 240,
      "medianOffers": 3
    },
    {
      "domain": "AI/ML",
      "count": 1,
      "medianHike": 233,
      "medianOffers": 3
    },
    {
      "domain": "QA/SDET",
      "count": 2,
      "medianHike": 188,
      "medianOffers": 5
    },
    {
      "domain": "ServiceNow",
      "count": 1,
      "medianHike": 175,
      "medianOffers": 3
    },
    {
      "domain": "DevOps",
      "count": 3,
      "medianHike": 138,
      "medianOffers": 5
    },
    {
      "domain": "SAP",
      "count": 1,
      "medianHike": 129,
      "medianOffers": 4
    },
    {
      "domain": "Development",
      "count": 1,
      "medianHike": 125,
      "medianOffers": 2
    },
    {
      "domain": "Product",
      "count": 1,
      "medianHike": 100,
      "medianOffers": 2
    },
    {
      "domain": "Salesforce",
      "count": 2,
      "medianHike": 67,
      "medianOffers": 3
    }
  ],
  "switches": [
    {
      "name": "Himanshu Bansal",
      "before": {
        "role": "SAP Consultant",
        "company": "Infosys",
        "ctc": "₹7 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "SAP Consultant",
        "company": "Volkswagen",
        "ctc": "₹16 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 129,
      "offers": 4,
      "weeks_to_offer": 11,
      "domain": "SAP",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/himanshubcon"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shubham Kumar Nimje",
      "before": {
        "role": "Java Developer",
        "company": "Nexus Software",
        "ctc": "₹4 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Java Developer",
        "company": "SourceFuse",
        "ctc": "₹9 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 125,
      "offers": 2,
      "weeks_to_offer": 7,
      "domain": "Development",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubham-kumar-nimje-7896a694/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sarthak Khobragade",
      "before": {
        "role": "Business Analyst",
        "company": "NoBroker",
        "ctc": "₹4 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Associate Project Manager",
        "company": "MagicBricks",
        "ctc": "₹8 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 100,
      "offers": 2,
      "weeks_to_offer": 7,
      "domain": "Product",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarthakkhobragade32/?skipRedirect=true"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ankush Sooryavanshi",
      "before": {
        "role": "Manual Testing",
        "company": "Infosys",
        "ctc": "₹4.5 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
        "company": "Wipro",
        "ctc": "₹15 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 233,
      "offers": 5,
      "weeks_to_offer": 12,
      "domain": "DevOps",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankush-suryavanshi-415a08193/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Amit Chourasiya",
      "before": {
        "role": "DevOps Engineer",
        "company": "Cognizant",
        "ctc": "₹7 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
        "company": "Cimpress",
        "ctc": "₹15 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 114,
      "offers": 5,
      "weeks_to_offer": 11,
      "domain": "DevOps",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitchourasiya463/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sourabh Pareek",
      "before": {
        "role": "iOS Developer",
        "company": "Infosys",
        "ctc": "₹5 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "iOS Developer",
        "company": "IBM",
        "ctc": "₹17 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 240,
      "offers": 3,
      "weeks_to_offer": 11,
      "domain": "Mobile",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-pareek/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nishant",
      "before": {
        "role": "Production Support Engineer",
        "company": "Infosys",
        "ctc": "₹5 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Site Reliability Engineer",
        "company": "Wipro",
        "ctc": "₹17.5 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 250,
      "offers": 7,
      "weeks_to_offer": 12,
      "domain": "SRE",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-choudhary-b77265157/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sumit Balanse",
      "before": {
        "role": "Manual Test Engineer",
        "company": "Infosys",
        "ctc": "₹5 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Automation Test Engineer",
        "company": "Medikabazaar",
        "ctc": "₹16 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 220,
      "offers": 5,
      "weeks_to_offer": 12,
      "domain": "QA/SDET",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumit-balanse11/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Akshat Singh",
      "before": {
        "role": "Salesforce Support",
        "company": "VGL Group Jaipur",
        "ctc": "₹9 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Salesforce Developer",
        "company": "Publicis Sapient",
        "ctc": "₹16 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 78,
      "offers": 2,
      "weeks_to_offer": 9,
      "domain": "Salesforce",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshat-singh-21213b177/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kavindra Yadav",
      "before": {
        "role": "Java Developer",
        "company": "Infosys",
        "ctc": "₹4.5 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "MLOps Engineer",
        "company": "Quantiphi",
        "ctc": "₹15 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 233,
      "offers": 3,
      "weeks_to_offer": 10,
      "domain": "AI/ML",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kavindra4official/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Meet Kumar",
      "before": {
        "role": "DevOps Engineer",
        "company": "Accenture",
        "ctc": "₹8 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
        "company": "Chevron",
        "ctc": "₹19 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 138,
      "offers": 5,
      "weeks_to_offer": 12,
      "domain": "DevOps",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-kothiya/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shubham Verma",
      "before": {
        "role": "Manual Test Engineer",
        "company": "Infosys",
        "ctc": "₹4.3 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Automation Test Engineer",
        "company": "Paltech",
        "ctc": "₹11 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 156,
      "offers": 4,
      "weeks_to_offer": 10,
      "domain": "QA/SDET",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubham-verma-sdet/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Swapnil Shinde",
      "before": {
        "role": "Production Support Engineer",
        "company": "Infosys",
        "ctc": "₹4 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "ServiceNow Developer",
        "company": "Coforge",
        "ctc": "₹11 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 175,
      "offers": 3,
      "weeks_to_offer": 10,
      "domain": "ServiceNow",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/swapnil-shinde-b27595207/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ankur Agrawal",
      "before": {
        "role": "Salesforce Developer",
        "company": "Cognizant",
        "ctc": "₹16 LPA"
      },
      "after": {
        "role": "Senior Salesforce Developer",
        "company": "Deloitte",
        "ctc": "₹25 LPA"
      },
      "hike_pct": 56,
      "offers": 3,
      "weeks_to_offer": 12,
      "domain": "Salesforce",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-agarwal-6719a4170/"
    }
  ],
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      "role": "Full Stack Developer",
      "slug": "full-stack-developer",
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      "senior": 105,
      "seniorPct": 53
    },
    {
      "role": "Mobile Developer",
      "slug": "mobile-developer",
      "category": "Software Development",
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      "topics": 16,
      "senior": 104,
      "seniorPct": 52
    },
    {
      "role": "DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer",
      "slug": "devops-sre-platform-engineer",
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      "senior": 104,
      "seniorPct": 52
    },
    {
      "role": "Cloud Engineer / Cloud Architect",
      "slug": "cloud-engineer-architect",
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      "senior": 108,
      "seniorPct": 54
    },
    {
      "role": "QA / SDET",
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    },
    {
      "role": "Cybersecurity Engineer",
      "slug": "cybersecurity-engineer",
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      "senior": 112,
      "seniorPct": 56
    },
    {
      "role": "Business Analyst",
      "slug": "business-analyst",
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      "senior": 108,
      "seniorPct": 54
    },
    {
      "role": "Java / Spring Boot Developer",
      "slug": "java-spring-boot-developer",
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      "senior": 107,
      "seniorPct": 54
    },
    {
      "role": "React / Frontend Developer",
      "slug": "react-frontend-developer",
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      "senior": 103,
      "seniorPct": 52
    },
    {
      "role": "Python Developer",
      "slug": "python-developer",
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      "topics": 14,
      "senior": 102,
      "seniorPct": 51
    },
    {
      "role": "Node.js Developer",
      "slug": "nodejs-developer",
      "category": "Software Development",
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      "topics": 14,
      "senior": 110,
      "seniorPct": 55
    },
    {
      "role": "Data Engineer",
      "slug": "data-engineer",
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      "senior": 110,
      "seniorPct": 55
    },
    {
      "role": "Data Scientist / ML Engineer",
      "slug": "data-scientist-ml-engineer",
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      "questions": 200,
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    },
    {
      "role": "AI / GenAI Engineer",
      "slug": "ai-genai-engineer",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "role": "Data Analyst / BI Analyst",
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    },
    {
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      "senior": 101,
      "seniorPct": 51
    },
    {
      "role": "Salesforce Developer / Administrator",
      "slug": "salesforce-developer-admin",
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      "senior": 105,
      "seniorPct": 53
    },
    {
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "role": "Oracle Consultant",
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    },
    {
      "role": "Product Manager",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "role": "Technical Support Engineer",
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    }
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}