India crowns Meta AI; More layoffs hit techIndia is now the ground zero for Meta’s AI push, WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart told us. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
14 May, 2026, 07.53 PM IST
Is Rs 70 LPA salary common for Bengaluru techies? Entrepreneur gives a breakdown of real salaries, ‘80% of engineers earn….’A startup founder debunked the notion of ₹70 lakh salaries being routine in Bengaluru's tech sector, highlighting that such high pay is con...
16 Apr, 2026, 04.38 PM IST
Oracle layoffs: Bengaluru techie with 14 years' experience becomes Uber driver, lives 'stress-free' on Rs 43,000 passive incomeA former Oracle employee, laid off after 14 years, chose a calm and measured reset. He returned to his hometown, Bhubaneswar, without panic...
06 Apr, 2026, 03.59 PM IST
Amid Oracle layoffs, corporate recruiter's message: 'Good work would not protect you. The real job security is...'Thousands of jobs are impacted by recent tech layoffs. Companies are investing heavily in AI, leading to workforce adjustments. Experts sta...
01 Apr, 2026, 12.51 PM IST
Oracle's Larry Ellison who beat Elon Musk as world's richest man loses over $100 billion in 2 months. What went wrong with the tech billionaire?Larry Ellison briefly became the world's richest person in September 2025 and toppled Elon Musk. The surge in Ellison's wealth was attribut...
19 Nov, 2025, 12.49 PM IST
Burnout hits India’s IT sector: One in four employees works over 70 hours a week, says surveyEmployees in India's IT sector work extreme hours, with 72% regularly exceeding the legal 48-hour work week limit, and about 25% clocking o...
01 Apr, 2025, 11.27 AM IST
Want Rs 60 lakh LPA role at Uber? Here is how Bengaluru techie did itChitransh Anand, a software developer from Bengaluru, secured a high-paying job at Uber with an annual package of Rs 60 lakh. Anand, who pr...
30 Oct, 2024, 08.50 PM IST
Uber signs seven-year cloud partnership deal with OracleBy migrating some of the company’s most critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Uber will be in a position to modernise its infr...
16 Feb, 2023, 05.13 PM IST
Uber signs 7-year cloud partnership deal with OracleOracle today announced a seven-year strategic cloud partnership with Uber Technologies Inc to accelerate the transport aggregator’s innovat...
14 Feb, 2023, 01.48 PM IST
StanPlus appoints Uber's Suhas Kulkarni as chief technology, product officer and founding memberIn this role, Kulkarni will be driving and building technology-led applications that will help in contributing to the company's vision to b...
08 Jun, 2022, 08.34 AM IST
Uber hires Cohesity's Namit Jain as senior director of engineeringJain joins Uber with over 25 years of experience, including a long stint in the San Francisco Bay area working at Oracle and Facebook, wher...
24 May, 2022, 04.01 PM IST
Uber CTO Sukumar Rathnam steps down after less than a year on the jobAn Uber spokesperson did not specify the reason for CTO Sukumar Rathnam's departure but Business Insider reported earlier that he had been ...
15 Sep, 2021, 11.25 AM IST
IIT Madras grabs 93 job offers in the first slot of Day 1In comparison, the number of offers at the same time last year was 71, according to a release. In the second slot, 14 companies with 30 pro...
01 Dec, 2017, 07.43 PM IST
Kaun Banega Crorepati? Number of IITians bagging Rs 1 cr-plus salary shrinks by halfStudents at IIT Madras, Roorkee, BHU, Guwahati and Kharagpur, for instance, received 15 Rs 1 crore plus offers this year, compared to about...
22 Dec, 2016, 06.36 AM IST
Intel Technologies largest recruiter at IIT Bombay with 29 offers; Samsung R&D close second with 28 offersThe highest base packages among the US firms are $110,000 from Uber, $106,000 from Microsoft and $100,000 from Oracle.
13 Dec, 2016, 05.07 PM IST
International recruiters offer up to Rs 1.2 crore to IITians on day 1 of placementsAccording to IIT placement sources, Oracle and Microsoft are offering packages of $135,000-136,000 (Rs92.3-93 lakh).
02 Dec, 2016, 01.18 AM IST
Microsoft makes highest number of offers at IIT Kharagpur till day twoThe American technology company has made about 27 of the total 370 offers made so far at the institute.
02 Dec, 2015, 08.46 PM IST