I Switched Jobs Twice in One Year. Here's What Nobody Tells You About Growing Fast in Tech

# I Switched Jobs Twice in One Year. Here's What Nobody Tells You About Growing Fast in Tech. Posted by Jwala Chaubey · 6 min read Let me be upfront: this isn't a feel-good story about "following your passion." This is about being honest with yourself, making uncomfortable moves, and refusing to let your salary stay behind while your skills grow forward. Where It Started — TCS Like a lot of engineers in India, my first job was at a big IT services company. TCS. The brand name felt safe. The onboarding was smooth. The work was... fine. But "fine" is a dangerous word in tech. I was doing Java development. Decent projects, decent team. But I started noticing something early: the gap between what I was learning and what the market was actually paying for was growing. Cloud. DevOps. Serverless. Infrastructure as Code. These were the words showing up everywhere — in job posts, in LinkedIn DMs, in the salary discussions I was quietly having with people outside my company. Inside TCS, I was co