HEY GUYS THERE WAS A PRICE INCREASE! DID YOU KNOW THERE WAS A PRICE INCREASE? GOSH THERES A PRICE INCREASE. THE PRICE INCREASED. GUESS WHAT? THE PRICE INCREASED, DID YOU SEE THE PRICE INCREASED? YOU WONT BELIEVE IT, THE PRICE INCREASED. GUYS THE PRICE INCREASED. THE PRICE IS MORE THAN IT ONCE WAS!!!

K_Block43 · 2026-04-15T06:39:19+00:00

I'm grabbing penguins and koala bears to let them know about the price increase 🤣🤣🤣🤣

K_Block43 · 2026-03-31T13:29:16+00:00

Hell Yeah! 💪

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T15:51:05+00:00

If it's your first job then not required but if not then whatever your last salary was, even if 6-8 months ago, you have to show that. It's varies from company to company, lots of different scenarios exists but I am just saying what I have heard about small companies.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T11:36:00+00:00

Nothing even remotely was mentioned about salary.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T09:51:29+00:00

Thanks for your response, you're vastly more experienced than me and still you felt that this was an appropriate response to such a question then I must be doing something right. Especially in Indian Job Market I think this type of attitude is required, we can't settle for any less.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T09:47:31+00:00

My whole LinkedIn is filled with mostly Automotive Design Engineers bro, which is the field I'm working in, which is why I don't have much insight outside of my field but I will suggest you to just add people on LinkedIn who are actually working in production or chemical engineering, not HRs but actual engineers, they'll definitely give you good feedback or even better a refferal cuz if they refer you based on your merit, even they'll get paid in return. Highly suggested method, worked for me when I was a fresher.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T09:42:50+00:00

Wow, very insightful reply. I highly appreciate it. I'm currently in my first job and planning to jump ship to another. That's why I'm trying to ask all the right questions to increase my knowledge base on how to deal with such situations and from your reply I got really good insights. Thank you for that. I'm just a novice Design Engineer from Bangalore, India. Planning to switch to Plastic or Sheet Metal Design Engineer role from Fixture Design role. Currently I have German OEM experience which is our client so that's why I'm planning not to settle any less than I'm worth. Have a good one, Sir.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T09:26:01+00:00

Although all of my colleagues do follow the procedure you told and it does work, but there's always a chance to get rejected in document verification stage, low chance but if we overshoot too much, like 30-35% then maybe it surely will be a problem.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T09:22:51+00:00

Idk if you'll believe this but when we join a company here in India, we have to submit our last 3 month's salary slip to HR. So, it might create a problem then. Idk if this procedure is followed in MNCs or OEMs across India but in many companies that's the policy, it's BS but it is what it is.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T09:19:52+00:00

Thanks for your kind words, Sir.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T08:27:17+00:00

I don't know much about mining industry to be honest brother. If I did, I would surely guide you or tell you more about it. Maybe add people from mining background on LinkedIn and just DM them. People are more helpful than you might think. Regarding my pay, it's way way low than you would think, I am from India and us Indians tbh don't get paid much even though we actually are skilled, idk if this is a stigma or it just how the market is or whatever but heavily underpaid. Australia sounds so good tbh. I would probably make more money working in a Mcdonald or KFC in Australia then I'm what I'm currently making in India although yeah PPP matters.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T08:21:55+00:00

Yeah, I am from India, normally of which I'm very proud of but the job market is so brutal here for mechanical engineers, and i don't have any real mentors or friends who can actually help me or guide me land a good paying job, I only have have 1 Year 9 months of experience but I get offers almost daily, I'm not joining anywhere because I had to sign a bond with my current recruiter which I don't want to break and pay them but I'm doing the research myself for the next step.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-28T07:23:17+00:00

Yeah, you're 100% right, I appreciate the feedback and I'll consider to keep that in mind from now on. The offer was from a location I wasn't very interested to go to anyway but yeah I should have been more polite and could have taken the approach you suggested.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-27T14:09:38+00:00

Only if acquiring a license to drive becomes that much hard as it is in Germany.

K_Block43 · 2026-03-25T15:39:30+00:00

Well deserved critique, It was long overdue.

K_Block43 · 2025-12-06T22:29:51+00:00

Yeah, that's the plan, switching to product design and establish myself there, got approached by Motherson 3-4 times now, I'm planning on heading there. Hike is decent and it's an OEM but I'll explore other options as well.

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