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I recently just got an offer from an SF-based startup, I'm so excited about it because I love the product and the fact that it is open-source. My comp is a bit adjusted by my location (Vietnam) but it's still six figures.
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This might be a bit personal but, honestly, what is the QoL like with that level of income? I've been to a few Asian nations previously and was extremely impressed how well one could eat on such a small amount of money. I had never seriously considered staying long-term, due to complications you may be familiar with, but I would imagine you can live pretty well with that kind of pay.
I have always lived my life frugally (at the cost of QoL) in all of my adventures both domestically and internationally, with that said, in VN to have a more "western" level of comfort, the costs equal or surpass the costs in a western country. Quality of goods, services, and properties are measurably lower and you need to spend more to keep the life style you want. There are things that we get in the USA insanely ch…
We have a few people working as contractors internationally but it's a bit painful for both the US company and the international contractors. We're just starting to try a new approach using Deel https://www.letsdeel.com/ It's too early to give a full endorsement of them as we're just going through the process for the first couple of employees but it seems promising so far and simplifies things for both the US company…
I’m from Serbia, I’ve been working with US clients for a decade. I’m wondering why you’re not just sending Wire each month and call it a day? It’s up to the employee to choose their tax status, they can become entrepreneurs, open LLC or simply report wire transfers quarterly as an individual.
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Yes. Any company that tries to play games with CoL is a red flag, to be honest. It basically mean they can't attract the best everywhere (since you know top performers are already working for SF level comp for remote companies) so good luck competing.
Asking for Bay Area level pay gives up a big advantage if you live elsewhere. If the going rate in SF is $200k then if I want the same I have to be better than somebody local. Whereas if I am working for $100k then that compensates if I'm in a different timezone and perhaps not up to the skill level of a SF local.
I don't think time zone has anything to do. Hell, even local devs have a reputation of having biological clocks all over the place. Skills definitively matters however.
I recently just got an offer from an SF-based startup, I'm so excited about it because I love the product and the fact that it is open-source. My comp is a bit adjusted by my location (Vietnam) but it's still six figures.
I actually found this startup on GitHub bc I was looking for projects that use Clojure.
But I also got some offers from Angelist as well.
I recently just got an offer from an SF-based startup, I'm so excited about it because I love the product and the fact that it is open-source. My comp is a bit adjusted by my location (Vietnam) but it's still six figures.
Sure, It’s Metabase( https://github.com/metabase ). Our stack is Clojure and javascript. I actually found this startup on GitHub bc I was looking for projects that use Clojure. But I also got some offers from Angelist as well.
I am. Full time US citizen software developer living in Asia for the past 3 years. Get paid to a US bank account. Country I’m in isn’t good at collecting taxes.
the IRS does though, and your income is in an US bank?
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Yeah I file US taxes every year and get it almost all back from the FEIE.
so if you work for an US company but reside overseas, can you claim it?
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I’m from Serbia, I’ve been working with US clients for a decade. I’m wondering why you’re not just sending Wire each month and call it a day? It’s up to the employee to choose their tax status, they can become entrepreneurs, open LLC or simply report wire transfers quarterly as an individual.
Fellow Serbian here. I work with one of the client over Deel. Value is that you can have card connected to your account and you can spend money without withdrawing it to Serbia, also you can choose how much and when to withdraw (useful to get around tax limits).