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You just need to be good in coding, data structures and system design - and be able to show this in the interview - achievable with some practice.
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I 100% disagree. You are allowed to maintain multiple full-time jobs in the United States unless you have entered into a contract that says otherwise. My father worked two full-time jobs to raise my siblings and his reputation and moral compass is just fine. Many middle class families do it for survival. There is no shame in working hard.
Did your father work both jobs at the same time? I m sure answer is No. GP is talking abput a remote dev who was fooling 3 companies. A full time job means you are available for that company at that time. Not concurrently.
No it doesn’t. That’s completely dependent on what’s in the employment contract.
Companies advertising "remote" or "fully remote" jobs are almost never looking for worldwide remote candidates. Your location and cost of living always play an important role in compensation.
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> EDIT: And if you're outside of the US, set up a local LLC so that US-based companies can treat you like an independent contracting business. By local, do you mean a US-based company (eg delaware), or local to where you are?
I believe he do mean a US LLC, most defaults to Delaware or Nevada. It has become much easier for NON-US residents to form such entities these days. Doola (formerly StartPack, a YC Company) is a good option. Not affiliated with Doola but the founder is a nice guy. https://www.doola.com
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$600,000/year compensation for programmers
Is this for real? I thought $400k was sort the max for regular high end engineers.
Take a non-remote job (as far as possible under Covid conditions) and spend a couple years proving your worth, then sell your manager on fully-remote. Be flexible but respect your non-negotiables whatever they are. At this point, if you're good, your manager is highly motivated to keep you and if you're being reasonable, they will try to make it happen.
Note that there are some companies -- particularly FAANGs -- that have very strict rules about this, so if your "ask" is "digital nomad" and you go to Google, that's not gonna work. But if it's "WFH in Tahoe" you can probably pull it off.
Good luck with it! I'm going to try the same next year if "starting my own startup" doesn't gel.
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Was his work performance suffering as a result? If not, what is the actual issue here?
Yes. His output was horrendous. I would have fired him anyway based just on that, but discovering he had multiple jobs expedited the firing (and clearly explained why his output was so poor).
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1. He took his LinkedIn down after being hired. You can't have a LinkedIn when you have 3 jobs. 2. His output was horrible. He was an obviously a good senior level developer. But it would take him a week to do something a -junior- engineer couple do in 2 days. 3. Lots of strange and unexpected absences. 4. On a number of occasions I asked how he solved a problem at a prior company, and he spoke about the company in p…
People like him are a reason why employers have to be more careful when hiring remote.
Laws are generally not written for the average, decent person, but to stop the degenerates who would try to murder, destroy, etc, and wouldn't be punished otherwise.
People cheat on remote tests and interviews, for example.
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This. Freelancing is a good option. 250k a year is 20k a month, for 12 months a year. 20k a month is 1k a day, for 20 work days a month. How to make 1k a day? Write 2 technical articles. Btw. as a freelancer you could end up paying less taxes, because more things are deductible. This could mean, you can end up with the same money after taxes without making 250k a year.
> How to make 1k a day? Write 2 technical articles. The going rate for a technical article written in ~4 hours is $500? That blows my mind. I'm not saying it doesn't happen -- I've only done non-technical articles -- but that it's hard for me to imagine it being profitable for the publication. 800-1000 words produced from scratch in 4 hours, including research, editing, and graphics, is going to be garbage one step a…
If they offer me to write an article about something I already know, I don't have to do much research.
Writing 1k words takes around 1h if the outline is good, so I have 2-3h hours time to do research about things I already know.
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> EDIT: And if you're outside of the US, set up a local LLC so that US-based companies can treat you like an independent contracting business. By local, do you mean a US-based company (eg delaware), or local to where you are?
I'm also wondering. but I would guess some companies only or more easily treat with locally based LLC than foreign entities. And those dealing with foreign entities probably favor those located in juridiction they feel comply with their rules. E.G only a few will deal with an entity based in Iran or China. Some industries are not even allowed to trade with a list of countries.
To be clear, in the US, that would also limit dealing with any LLC who's beneficial ownership is sanctioned.