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Re: Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?

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Post by EdwardDiego » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 2:07 AM UTC

handsondev wrote: post #79

EdwardDiego wrote: post #62

Kiwi here, I work for a large US company, full time remote, nearly all of my team is in Europe - UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Czechia, but I often collaborate with staff in Australia and their NZ sales teams also. I'm employed by their NZ subsidiary so tax and employment law is all straightforward. My initial salary offering was above local market, but definitely not SV levels. In terms of timezone alignment,…

a bit of a tangent here - I have been looking for such opportunities but most of those are restricted to US remote - would you be able to share any pointer where to find such opportunities? I am a backend dev with Java/Python/Clojure experience. Thanks!

If you have a way I contact you, I will.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?

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Post by crummy » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 5:09 AM UTC

RileyJames wrote: post #48

crummy wrote: post #24

I do this, in NZ, for a 15ish person company. I 'contract' but my contract says I get a monthly rate not hourly, and I get holidays, a couple other benefits. I pay taxes myself. My work sends me my 'salary' with transferwise every month. That said I read about Pilot which lets you be an actual employee. They provide the tax presence that so many companies want to avoid. https://pilot.co/

I’m based in NZ too, how do you go with time zones? I’ve noticed many US companies hiring remote still specify employees to live within a range of time zones. And I haven’t seen those include NZ (+13, yes the edge of tomorrow) In practice, I’ve found collaborating with US colleagues fine. There’s a 3-4 hour overlap (our morning, their end of day).

Sorry for the late reply. I'm lucky to work for a company that runs after school coding classes, so the whole company is around US afternoon/evening hours. As a result I work a little earlier than most kiwis but not much, and really like the schedule now.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?

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Post by nullaf » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

EdwardDiego wrote: post #62

Kiwi here, I work for a large US company, full time remote, nearly all of my team is in Europe - UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Czechia, but I often collaborate with staff in Australia and their NZ sales teams also. I'm employed by their NZ subsidiary so tax and employment law is all straightforward. My initial salary offering was above local market, but definitely not SV levels. In terms of timezone alignment,…

I would love to learn more about details.

You can contact me at [redacted]

Re: Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?

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Post by lometogo » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 9:28 PM UTC

anonymous2324 wrote: post #39

digianarchist wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people do pay taxes in their home country. You can't be a tax resident of nowhere. In Canada to become a nonresident for tax purposes you need to establish tax residency elsewhere.

Yeah that's what digital nomads do. I live long term in the country I am located in so there's little doubt on where I need to pay my taxes. Actually for Americans the rules are bit different in that Uncle Sam wants his cut even if they live overseas (over a certain amount IIRC) but for the rest of us it's purely residence based.

From the US IRS site: For tax year 2020, the maximum foreign earned income exclusion is the lesser of the foreign income earned or $107,600 per qualifying person. For tax year 2021, the maximum exclusion is $108,700 per person.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?

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Post by sintezcs » Mon, Nov 01, 2021, 11:00 AM UTC

I’m based in Russia, and looks like it’s a big problem for finding a remote job, even for an experienced developers (I have 12+ years experience). I’ve already spent a number of months, looking for remote jobs in EU and US companies. And I got zero interview invites from US companies. As for EU-based, most of them require you to relocate to EU, or, sometimes they work with non-EU citizens, but the salary range will be about €50-70K for Senior level positions (which is less than I have now…) I had only ONE interview with a EU startup, that was hiring outside of EU and offered 100k+ for senior/lead positions, but unfortunately I was not a good match for this position because of the specific technologies. So I’m still continuing my search.