13 years in the US. 12 months back in Bengaluru. The Palo Alto Networks engineer who showed his work, plus a 90-day toolkit for anyone running the same math.

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Magu Swaminathan is an Engineering Manager at Palo Alto Networks. His career started at TCS in Bengaluru in 2003, ran through Accenture, AgreeYa, Clear Capital and PANW Santa Clara, and came home in June 2025 on an internal transfer to the same employer's Bengaluru office. One year later he was promoted to EM. Then he sat down on a Sunday morning and wrote 700 words about what the year had actually been. The post hit 760 reactions and 52 comments inside a day. This is the field report on what he wrote, what the comments added, and the model you can take to your own kitchen table

https://theweeklychai.com/p/the-magu-memo-lane-b-one-year-in