After 18 years in the US, ex-Meta employee returned to Bengaluru. Here's why

For many engineering students, building a career in Silicon Valley is the ultimate dream. A degree from a top college, a job at Microsoft or Meta, and life in the United States often represent the pinnacle of professional success.But for Balaji Gururajan, an engineering leader who spent nearly two decades in the US working at some of the world's biggest technology companies, success eventually came to mean something else.After 18 years abroad, he packed his family's life into a few suitcases and returned to Bengaluru—not because he wanted a better job or a bigger salary, but because he did not want to watch an important phase of family life from thousands of kilometres away."Closer to ageing parents, growing kids"Sharing his decision on LinkedIn, Balaji wrote that he and his family had recently moved back to Bengaluru after spending 18 years in the United States."A month ago, my family and I…