{"id":999570,"date":"2026-03-27T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999570"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:21:52","slug":"from-california-to-bengaluru-how-rightshoring-is-rewriting-tech-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/from-california-to-bengaluru-how-rightshoring-is-rewriting-tech-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"From California to Bengaluru: How rightshoring is rewriting tech careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While tech companies are sacking thousands in the US due to AI-led automation and efficiency gains, hiring hasn\u2019t abated in markets such as India, the Philippines and Brazil because of the obvious commercial advantage: A senior engineer in California costs about $280,000 annually. <\/p>\n<p>Their equivalent in Bengaluru, along with a paid subscription to AI tools such as Cursor or Claude, costs $52,000 on average. That \u2018AI+India\/Philippines\/ Brazil\u2019 equation is working in favour of candidates in these countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While tech companies are sacking thousands in the US due to AI-led automation and efficiency gains, hiring hasn\u2019t abated in markets such as India, the Philippines and Brazil because of the obvious commercial advantage: A senior engineer in California costs about $280,000 annually. Their equivalent in Bengaluru, along with a paid subscription to AI tools such as Cursor or Claude, costs $52,000 on average. That \u2018AI+India\/Philippines\/ Brazil\u2019 equation is working in favour of candidates in these countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}