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Quality of living sucks though. The same money won't buy you same comforts. Commute is terrible. Housing sucks. Coming from a small village, I often feel alien here :). Though its a different kind of alien when compared with when I was in USA for short visits.

Healthcare is usually way cheaper and you can hire maid+cook. All I can say is that money shouldn't be primary driver for your decision unless you are doubling your savings. Also there is huge risk of rupee depreciation which is robbing us of any real wage growth.

Most of the American companies with head count < 3000 usually seem to offer good packages. My skill set is C++ based (professionally) but I have knowledge of full stack dev and devops (never worked professionally). Having Tier-1 college stamp has helped quite a bit (though lack of CS degree keeps me from applying to Tier-1 companies)

I can answer your questions here.

It has been terrible in the initial few months. It was definitely out of my comfort zone and every week had been a roller coaster. But now, I kind of settled in and started to enjoy it. There are certain nuances this role needs us to learn which no one can teach and needs to be experienced first hand. I'm becoming better at small talk and ability to sell ideas which I lacked in previous roles.

It may not provide faster growth designation wise but I'm hoping money wise its a good choice as what I'm now paid is the entry level salary in management in most of the companies I worked for previously.

Here is my salary history for comparison (Bangalore). Every time I dream of hitting $100k gross, my government prints boatload of money devaluing rupee and bringing my $ salary down. I have kinda given up on the 100k milestone at this point:

  2007 -  0 YOE -  350000 INR ( 4600 USD) -  Software Engineer  - American company (indian office)
  2010 -  3 YOE -  900000 INR ( 12000 USD) - Senior Software Engineer    - Small indian company
  2012 -  5 YOE - 1200000 INR ( 16000 USD) - Lead Engineer  - Korean company (indian office)
  2014 -  7 YOE - 2900000 INR ( 38000 USD) - Staff Engineer    - American company (indian office)
  2017 -  10 YOE - 5400000 INR ( 72000 USD) - Principal Engineer - Small American company (indian office)
  2018 - 11 YOE - 6200000 INR ( 82000 USD) - Dev Manager - MNC