Hi guys, posting in this channel coz found it the most suitable. I am working at a company whose BYOD policy offers me 50k reimbursement if I stay for 2 years and 25K reimbursement if I work for 1 year. To give an idea about my role - I’m working as a Product Owner there. I have an overall experience of almost 7 years as Full Stack/Backend Developer/Team Lead/Architect in my earlier company and was promoted here in this company after working of 6 months as Backend developer. I found this amount very meagre and wanted to get an idea of BYOD policies in other Indian companies along with the role in which they are offered.

Personally don't like BYOD when there are companies out there shipping machines to employees accross countries and some even letting them keep it as their own (Tailwind Labs)

Agreed, I generally expect reimbursement of the device at the very least. Some of them install MDM softwares on that which is fine by me. I like to keep my personal and work laptop separate. However, it might also depend on the salary, if it is on the higher end, I wouldn't mind this drawback. Maybe think of it as a business expense.

Having your own device - if you are registered as a contractor, you can claim GST and also depreciation - which helps offset taxes. So YMMV. But - 50K is on the lower side. Dev laptops are upwards of 1L nowadays - I think you may need to put in another 50K to get a decent laptop for your needs.

If you’ll be writing software there, even occasionally, 50k budget doesn’t cut. I’d rather push them to provide a company-owned device instead.

Company owned device will have some constraints or the other, and since some years I am heavily invested into the mac ecosystem- buying apps and getting used to the stuff So i want mac for sure - they would definitely not spend around 1.7L on this 😅 Till now, I was renting one so I could wait for an appropriate model of mac to come after the butterfly keyboard debacle - and now i think i can buy one - since I want to be in control of what device I work on. What I would be trying here is to see how I well I can align myself with what best they can offer - and for that trying to understand what are the current policies out there.