The Sweet Allure of Tech

For job seekers in India's tech sector, it's the best of timesand the worst. When Venugopal Rao Moram, a 29-year-old software engineer living in Bangalore, began looking for a new job in June this year, it took him just two weeks before he found the work he wanteda position with Microsoft in the city of Hyderabad. "The moment you put your rsum on the Internet, the offers start coming in," says Moram, who's been working in the tech sector for six years. "Everyone looking for a job has at least five offers."

Lalit Kumar, a 22-year-old resident of...