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Crime risk? Where were you living?
I've lived in various places at various times, what specifically are you asking about?
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But it's good for exactly who they are - the management. As long as Americans are replaced time and again, it changes the US. We used to care for each other. I think the fact that the greed machine is so precise and backstabbing and self-documented and codified there's nothing to tell it to stop hiring people outside the US simply for cheaper labor. I keep seeing people say that the economy is not a zero sum game - b…
In ten years robots will take over many of the current construction jobs.
If I were to take a shot in the dark it would be less than 1% of the jobs. I can see painting robots but even that would be a miserable robot that would look good in a youtube video but when you ask the crew that's forced to use it, they will tell you clearing the paint clogs is taking more time than rolling/spraying the wall themselves.
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Language and cultural barriers are not a problem if you hire people to directly work in the team. They are not problem if you do hiring directly and select right people. Biggest problem is that companies want to hire bunch of worm bodies and dump trash tasks on them. Managers expect that they will be able to throw vague requirements and bunch of people who are not part of their company will figure out what to do. Wha…
>They are not problem if you do hiring directly and select right people. Hiring directly in other countries is difficult for all but the biggest companies (who probably already have offices in those countries and have been hiring in those countries for years).
I work in Poland for company from the Netherlands and I know other people who have "single person company" that are working for companies in UK and US. I even did some work for company based in UAE.
You just have to spend time looking where to find such people. Then of course you have to do trial period to see if they won't flake out but that would be the same as if you would hire someone from US.
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It's not just the $60k developer in Sleepville, USA. Salaries in Bangalore have literally sky-rocketed.
How high are they?
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> All the qualified Canadians move to the USA for USA incomes This is patently untrue. See how well Shopify is doing in Canada. > Canada is going to be an immigration station for people companies want to bring in but can't get US visas for. Its already a thing. This is true though!
shopify is literally hiring kids still in school at Carleton and Yorke to fill their teams through their devdegree program because they can't get enough graduated and qualified coders who want to stay in canada.
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Switzerland, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Munich, Luxembourg FAANG.
Without stock appreciation, I don't see that in Dublin. Like, a friend recently got a FAANG offer for senior IC, which netted out at about 150k total compensation, which is far off from 200k. You'd be looking at Staff (or years of stock appreciation) to hit 200k TC, which is a lot lower than one would expect in the US.
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I am not patronizing anyone living outside the USA and please don't sling around accusations like that. You are paid based on a mix of skills, taxes, other costs, job market, and where you live. Pay is not some absolute, it has a lot of factors (many I didn't mention). The ultimate question is are you happy with your pay and is it fair? Done :) There isn't some magical number out there and anything lower than that me…
> I am not patronizing anyone living outside the USA and please don't sling around accusations like that. Funny that my comment was so heavily upvoted. You are patronizing people, and I accuse you of it deliberately, knowing both that it is an accusation you may not welcome, and that it is difficult to infer from text-based communication. I suggest you pause and consider that this is a recurring accusation with sever…
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> It goes both ways: local talent will learn from the biggest companies in the world without having to leave, meaning their know how can be turned to local entities as well. It really doesn't. You end up with a whole segment of engineers that effectively become invisible to the local tech scene, because they are way above the local rates. Local companies are, basically, a waste of time for them. Also, keep in mind th…
It's a valid point, but it's not the whole story. When there is too much of a gap between the local scene and the global scene, there is an isolation effect. But it doesn't mean these engineers live in their remote bubble. There will be a halo effect of showing the way to local talent, we've seen when subcontracting html integration to a remote shop. Once the contract and legal framing was established, it was easier…
They kinda do. Mentoring, for instance, will happen with employees of the US corp. You'll effectively have the best devs in the foreign country mentoring early career Americans at HQ.
> The other path is for these higher level engineers to move directly to high level positions in local firm. You'll see a junior engineer by EU standards move to a CTO like position in a local company or startup.
Does that actually happens? I mean, I can see that a senior engineer at FAANG matches the level of some local companies CTO, but will these local businesses really give out such a role to an engineer barely in his 30's? That's of course if he hasn't transferred to HQ yet...
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> It goes both ways: local talent will learn from the biggest companies in the world without having to leave, meaning their know how can be turned to local entities as well. It really doesn't. You end up with a whole segment of engineers that effectively become invisible to the local tech scene, because they are way above the local rates. Local companies are, basically, a waste of time for them. Also, keep in mind th…
> It really doesn't. You end up with a whole segment of engineers that effectively become invisible to the local tech scene, because they are way above the local rates. If remote salaries will be significantly higher than local ones many governments will be tempted to raise/introduce taxes on foreign income (and in authoritarian ones it is easy to implement). Since cross-border payments in most countries are closely…
That's a double edged sword. Because your top performers are now seeing the local government trying to fleece them and it just makes coming to the US even more attractive.
It would also be a red flag for anyone in the country, to be fair. Instead of looking at what's wrong with the countries' tech ecosystem and fixing it to help local companies innovate and compete, they just rent-seek successful companies.
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For me it was just enough information to make me more curious about what type of crypto company. I work for one too, but not on the fun web3 side of things.
Do you mind elaborating on what that is? Looking to learn as much about web 3 as possible. Thanks