Software salary in India after working 15 years in US?

How can one improve as a software engineer in India?

• TL;DR - Is it just about learning the syntax of various languages? Products such as Facebook's Graph Search, Android's Speech Recognition or Netflix's Movie Recommendation Systems are not developed in India. Most of the work involves writing simple and easy code. In such a case, how do you grow as a Software Engineer in India? Long Story: I graduated from a good university in India in July 2013 and started working at a leading MNC which pays me around Rs.8.5 lacs yearly. My work mainly involves writing APEX (Java) code. The work is kind of monotonous. I can generalize 80% of my job to be a few variable declarations, for loops, SOQL queries and hash tables. I thought that you grow as a Software Engineer when you learn to write clean, efficient, scalable and robust code. I have spent a considerable amount of time on style guides and I believe that I can write a decent code now. There is not much difference between the kind of code that I write, and what my colleagues who are 2-3 years senior to me, write. I have also spent a considerable amount of time learning the architecture of our internal systems - which class is used for what, how the objects are linked to each other, etc. Over the past month or so, I have really begun to feel that I am not learning anything new technically. I feel that I am not growing. Although I am being paid well for a fresher, and my salary will just keep growing every year, I am not sure I can say the same about my technical skills. All I seem to be learning is some syntax. I thought a software engineering job at such a leading MNC would mean that I would get really interesting projects. I have got a chance to work on many projects that are really important for the company - be it customer facing products, financial stuff, etc., but I did not find any of these to be really interesting. My definition of growth would be, say, being a member of the team that is developing Quora's search engine or Facebook's graph search. Netflix's movie recommendation system or Android's speech recognition. In all these projects, I would learn something new about the field. I would take something away. All I take away right now is how to write a for loop and a hash table. Most of the projects that I listed in the previous paragraph are not developed in India. They are mostly developed in the US offices. So, I most likely will not get to work on those kind of projects in India. I have a huge interest in this field and do not want to pursue a MBA. Some people suggest working at startups. I have asked many of my friends who are working at some hot Indian startups such as RedBus, Flipkart, Zomato, etc., but even their work is kind of redundant. So, how does one grow as a Software Engineer in India?

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