Bangalore engineer pay was bimodal — now it's jagged all the way up to $300K
NirantK · x · 2026-10-03
NirantK observes a sharp shift in Bangalore's engineering talent market: compensation used to be clearly bimodal, with two smooth normal distributions; now the distribution is jagged all the way up to around $300K.
His reaction suggests AI-driven demand is reshaping the high end of the pay curve.
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