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You can work for Disney's DMED, which is a very large IT/software organization. You would have to become a contractor through one of the agencies they work with - "Happiest Minds" or "Globant" were the two I saw used when I was there.

My current employer, Rigetti Computing, has I think 100-200 employees and has a few that are working from the UK, Australia, or Canada. But I think they would have to be especially interested in you to let you work from abroad as a new hire.

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Curious question: does that also mean you get US salaries between $100K - $120K?

I know somebody working in Canada, getting paid the same as other seniors at an SF-based startup. It's quite a bit more than that range. The lease on the startup's SF office came up as the pandemic hit, so they vacated the premises and used the considerable savings to hire more developers.

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I'm working for a smaller US company (hitting 100 people across the whole organisation soon), as a remote employee in the UK.

The arangement is a third party hires me as an employee in the UK, where I receive all the British employment rights (holidays, etc), and I just work for the US company. This is a fairly new thing for them, previously they had only taken on non-US persons through contracting companies.

I would guess that if larger companies were going to hire abroad, they would either have a local setup to manage payroll or do something similar to where I am now. No idea how many are really offering something like that.

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Curious question: does that also mean you get US salaries between $100K - $120K?

In 2017, I had $132k USD/yr salary working in Vietnam full time. I am sure you can negotiate a lower salary if you don't want to earn more than $120k.

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post #15

Curious question: does that also mean you get US salaries between $100K - $120K?

In 2017, I had $132k USD/yr salary working in Vietnam full time. I am sure you can negotiate a lower salary if you don't want to earn more than $120k.

I need to find myself a remote US job then :D

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I don't know if this counts, but I had to spend two weeks in Juarez Mexico last month for my wife's green card interview, and I spent a majority of that working for a US megacorporation. We're all remote-first anyway, so most of my coworkers didn't know/care about where I was located geographically. Only thing that was a bit irritating for me was having to work in a different time-zone.

Companies usually only care about your fiscal residence. When you were away traveling, that didn't change so it's rarely a problem for getting paid.
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