A “moderate growth” in the U.S. IT salaries brought back cheerful faces in the tech world. But what if you could be much happier elsewhere?

Yes, let’s travel back in time. Seems impossible? The reality is you can, if you ‘will,’ experience the exciting times of the late 90’s of Silicon Valley eco-system—not in the U.S. though, but in India.
Would you consider working in India? Couple of years ago the answer would have been a clear ‘NO’. But the tides are changing and so are the answers.

If one is working for a global corporation and wish to handle exciting projects, India presents greater options and experiences than the U.S. With every business group setting up shop in India, the country is in the cusp of its own emerging Silicon Valley. At the same time almost every other day we hear news of a U.S-based venture-backed company starting its India operations. The scope of work that these startups execute out of India is leading-edge technology.

As companies send operations offshore, they are groping for that right talent to play critical roles, especially leadership roles—someone with experience of working in the U.S.
who can replicate the global culture back in India. According to a survey conducted by siliconindia, 80 percent of employers in India surveyed said that they expected to hire more people with U.S. experience.

As India competes for global economic and technological leadership, returnees can play an important role in shaping this future. India is graduating more science and technology specialists, spending more on Information and Communications Technology, filing for more U.S. patents, and generally executing specific high-tech policy agendas.

These are clear indications that India has a clear goal of gaining a technological lead.
For the foreseeable future, India is where the growth is. This month’s feature is focused on the emerging opportunity for returnees across verticals. Read and ask for yourself, if you could change one thing about your job, what would it be?

While you think about changing your job, we present Webify Solutions, a company that is revolutionizing the insurance and healthcare industry with its game changing business transformation solutions. Another change to look out for is the way Stored Value Cards are going to replace cash, Shashi Kapur, CIO of Wildcard Systems tells us how his company is doing it. Also read about Vivek Paul’s new
innings at TPG.

And as always, thanks to all of you for your time.

Pradeep Shankar
editor@siliconindia.com