Launch HN: Ontop (YC W21) – Easily hire and pay remote workers in LATAM

Post by klaudioz » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 7:41 PM UTC

thegginthesky wrote: post #59

klaudioz wrote: post #54

LATAM engineers should try to immigrate to the US instead to working remote. The same owner of Ontop is saying that they are getting just 33% of the salary they'd get in the US. Venausa ( https://www.venausa.net ) is giving a coaching in Spanish to get a job in the US in less than one year averaging 90.000 USD annually for LATAM engineers.

I would recommend the opposite. I lived in a LATAM country and I earned a modest USD salary but my quality of life was much better than now, when I receive the "33% more" and live in the US. This is because: - USD is always high, so currency conversion is very favorable. I literally earned 4x more than an engineer at the same position in a local big company. - My spending was in local currency, so utilities and most…

Post by thegginthesky » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 7:47 PM UTC

klaudioz wrote: post #61

thegginthesky wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would recommend the opposite. I lived in a LATAM country and I earned a modest USD salary but my quality of life was much better than now, when I receive the "33% more" and live in the US. This is because: - USD is always high, so currency conversion is very favorable. I literally earned 4x more than an engineer at the same position in a local big company. - My spending was in local currency, so utilities and most…

Tell me about security living there ... ?

Post by juliantorresgo » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 7:51 PM UTC

thegginthesky wrote: post #59

klaudioz wrote: post #54

LATAM engineers should try to immigrate to the US instead to working remote. The same owner of Ontop is saying that they are getting just 33% of the salary they'd get in the US. Venausa ( https://www.venausa.net ) is giving a coaching in Spanish to get a job in the US in less than one year averaging 90.000 USD annually for LATAM engineers.

I would recommend the opposite. I lived in a LATAM country and I earned a modest USD salary but my quality of life was much better than now, when I receive the "33% more" and live in the US. This is because: - USD is always high, so currency conversion is very favorable. I literally earned 4x more than an engineer at the same position in a local big company. - My spending was in local currency, so utilities and most…

Post by juliantorresgo » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 7:51 PM UTC

klaudioz wrote: post #61

thegginthesky wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would recommend the opposite. I lived in a LATAM country and I earned a modest USD salary but my quality of life was much better than now, when I receive the "33% more" and live in the US. This is because: - USD is always high, so currency conversion is very favorable. I literally earned 4x more than an engineer at the same position in a local big company. - My spending was in local currency, so utilities and most…

Tell me about security living there ... ?

Post by rizpanjwani » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 8:04 PM UTC