A new job gift sits in a specific register: you are marking an achievement, not a milestone. It does not need the gravity of a wedding gift or the sentiment of a birthday one. What lands is something that makes the first month less irritating — the calls, the commute, the desk he has not set up yet. In a joint family the gift usually gets seen by parents too, so obviously cheap feels careless and loudly branded feels aimed at the wrong audience.
₹1,000 to ₹3,000 is the honest sibling band for this. Under ₹1,000 you are in novelty territory — mugs, desk toys, things that say 'I remembered' rather than 'I thought about this'. Over ₹3,000 the gift starts competing with the salary itself, which is awkward coming from a brother. Inside this band you can buy a real pair of over-ear headphones at ₹1,149, a Philips OneBlade at ₹1,599, or a mechanical keyboard that changes how eight hours a day feel.
The trap specific to this occasion is anything that frames the job as provisional. A planner with the year printed on it, a 'First Job' novelty set, a book about succeeding at work — if he is twenty-eight and on his third role, all three read as condescending. Keep the new-job framing in your head and off the packaging. One practical note: if he has landed in an open-plan office, think hard before the blue-switch keyboard. It is genuinely loud, and he will be the new person making the noise.