Overview
- He moved to the United States in 2022 on an H-1B from a Big 4 India firm before joining a small startup.
- He says his only teammate regularly humiliated him and that a brutal job market left him stuck and emotionally drained.
- After 18 months, he weighed a $124,000 offer in the US against ₹37 lakh in India and chose to return home to end the strain.
- He learned he still faced the I-140 filing and a 180-day wait to gain job portability, which he says he could not endure.
- He now works in India as a senior architect with lower stress and more respect, yet he misses US life, and online reactions note heightened H-1B anxiety and a tighter tech job market.