How technical roles are changing compensation in India
As enterprise companies compete for senior engineering talent in India, comp teams still using the country for low-cost support roles risk falling behind in the AI talent race.
Key takeaways:
- Companies shifted hiring toward senior talent in India with support-level offers dropping from 27% to 11%, while mid-career offers rose from 22% to 38%.
- IT hiring is out, engineering is in. IT’s share of technical hiring dropped from 32% to 7% as engineering increased to 83%.
- Hardware led a broader move beyond software, pushing non-software engineering roles from 10% to 26%.
- India pays for skills in early career roles with P2 skill premiums reaching 52%, up to 2X U.S. levels, before converging with the U.S, by P4.
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