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People are downvoting but this is correct - I know many being paid in USDT and USDC as well. One benefit is the central bank doesn’t steal your US currency and replace it with the worse (inflationary, poorly accepted) local currency.
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Not neccessarily. Say there's 3 million competent senior software engineers in the US, and 75% of them are already working as senior SWEs (the remaining 25% are in early retirement or have switched professions). The best that doubling wages in short term can accomplish is makes those 25% of people move back to the profession. As for people who don't know how to code retraining to be SWEs - since becoming a "senior so…
Believe me you start paying those guys 800k a year they’ll wait a few more years before retiring.
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Through paypal, im hired as a contractor, have to send invoices and stuff
I think the question was more about how your employers are violating US sanctions against your country.
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/....
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I tend to agree with you having worked with IBM's global consulting services and their workforce in both India and Brazil many moons ago. While in theory, it may sound like you could have around the clock hands-on-keyboard time by having folks in India, it's more advantageous to have people work in similar time zone if it is joint development work. I do have to say, when there are important soccer matches though, dev…
I went to Brazil with some friends for the World Cup in 2014. For the bigger, more important matches the entire country left work early and everything (except for bars, etc.) closed down for the day. Quite literally.
Market is stupid crazy right now. My coworkers are leaving because of 2x base offers, we did hiring recently, shortly after we sent an offer we noticed that CV is probably totally made up (inconsistent with Linkedin completely - different companies, different time periods) So instead of 4YoE we are getting 1YoE. I wanted to rescind the offer, but my manager told me to give her chance, because of the market (lets see…
Please describe numbers. Your "2x base offer" can still probably be very small. Example: is 2x +140K ?
I think this article underestimates the difficulty of finding great talent in Latin America as a remote company. Everybody in Latin America wants to work remotely at foreign companies, yet few actually do in practice. I was born and raised in Argentina, but studied and worked abroad (UK) and never was in the Latin American market. As an Engineering Lead at a London-based startup, I interviewed tons of software engine…
If you're a good engineer in Latin America you're not settling for less money than your first-world counterparts. Argentina and Brazil's engineering talent is _outstanding_, and these people are not settling for mediocre companies or mediocre salaries.
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This is the sweet spot that products like LeetCode or BinarySearch could be used to solve - people who have the academic background, and should know how to code if they're coming out of a good program, but don't have a portfolio of work to show or a catalogue of experience to draw examples and answers from for a typical interview. And all the DSA stuff that is irrelevant for 90% of dev jobs 90% of the time is still f…
I can't do LeetCode to save my life. I'm not that kind of natural Google-tier genius. But I have a relevant PhD, demonstrable industry experience leading a recognisable project, many papers, lots of experience developing juniors, influential keynotes, blog posts, etc. If you used LeetCode you wouldn't hire me. I don't know if you think that's a loss or not? But it's a data point.
But I will say in my experience a PhD is a red flag for a developer, especially if you're highlighting your academic experience on your resume. It's just that the skills that make you successful in getting a PhD don't necessarily translate to day-to-day software development and in some cases will hinder you/the team.
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On the ground, this seems to be demonstrably false. I have numerous current and former coworkers that would love opportunities elsewhere. It’s the recruiters who are the problem. If you’re looking for a C# dev and you put “5 years Node.JS experience minimum”, then not only are you going to miss out on some great, if not the best, developers, but you’re much less likely to hire the man you actually want.
I'd go further and say it's not just the recruiters that are the problem, but the automation of recruiting that is the problem. Hiring is a people skill, not an algorithm skill.
That is great! Latin american are still suspiciously uncommon in tech so there is definitely a neglected talent pool. That illustrates one of the few good traits of capitalism: discrimination pushing you to miss on good candidates (women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, etc) is a drop in profit that can be exploited by other companies and that, thus, should disapear with time (at least in theory, in practice not all…
If your hypothesis was true then we'd see all the DEI initiatives and blatantly illegal diversity platforms like Canvas [1] have paid off by now. But that isn't the case. [1]: https://www.canvas.com/
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If your hypothesis was true then we'd see all the DEI initiatives and blatantly illegal diversity platforms like Canvas [1] have paid off by now. But that isn't the case. [1]: https://www.canvas.com/
Yes, that's the "in practice not all companies act as rational capitalists" part.
If you've ever interacted with a recruiting pipeline at a big company you know the recruiters spend way more effort trying to recruit the few "diverse" people than everyone else. There's not much talent you're missing out on. If 80% of CS grads at universities are male then your pipeline is 80% male. There's no 30% extra women that are somehow recruitable but missed by every firm out there. Those women don't exist, else they would have been hired already.