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Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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post #35

It would be great if they could publish their salary bands. If you are advertising jobs to Washington State residents, by law, need to publish salary bands. This seems to be not compliant with our law.

In theory the website is advertising jobs to people in every labor market on earth. Since there is a huge variety of labor laws out there, I'm guessing the website violates many many laws.

Exactly. This site shouldn't follow Cameroonian or Peruvian labor laws either.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

#72
post #17

JustWatch (company I work at) also hires basically from everywhere: https://talent.justwatch.com My team is split over Germany, Sweden, Croatia, India. We are all fully remote.

Out of curiosity, how do you get paid, if you don't mind sharing? As the owner of a company, I can barely figure out how to legally pay people just in the USA, and every new state is a new headache. I can't even imagine trying to pay people across the world. And I'm already using 3rd party (Gusto) to manage it. But they don't do all the details like setting up your corporate entity in each place.

Does your paycheck come from a 3rd party service?

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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post #35

It would be great if they could publish their salary bands. If you are advertising jobs to Washington State residents, by law, need to publish salary bands. This seems to be not compliant with our law.

Commerce on The Internet is being slowly ruined by minor fiefdoms who have strong opinions about how everyone else should behave. Like NY trying to tax out of state remote workers. What a nightmare.

I live in another state with a similar law and it has negatively impacted my job and earning prospects in remote work.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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post #35

It would be great if they could publish their salary bands. If you are advertising jobs to Washington State residents, by law, need to publish salary bands. This seems to be not compliant with our law.

This is going to start showing up in job ads: "This job is not available for people in the State of California, Washington or New York"

And companies that do that will soon realize that cutting off the three states with the highest concentration of qualified tech workers isn't a winning strategy.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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post #48

Are you taking suggestions? WunderGraph is hiring remote engineers from anywhere in the world. https://wundergraph.com/jobs#open-positions

one listing says EMEA. What's that mean?

Probably "we hire from anywhere in the world, but for this position because of coverage reasons we would prefer somebody from these time zones". The other regions that are usually used alongside EMEA are LATAM ("the Americas") and APAC (roughly Asia and the Pacific islands).

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I remember job ads telling Colorado residents they need not apply, but if you emailed them I bet it would have been fine. Dunno about that. I am currently employed in a remote role at a huge company. I can move anywhere I want in the USA, except Colorado.

What specifically about Colorado is the issue? If you're already employed, I'm not sure why the law would apply to you?

IANAL, but I guess they believe they need to have zero Colorado employees in order to escape being liable under that state law.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is going to start showing up in job ads: "This job is not available for people in the State of California, Washington or New York"

And companies that do that will soon realize that cutting off the three states with the highest concentration of qualified tech workers isn't a winning strategy.

Keep in mind that the companies listed on that website are hiring globally.

By not disclosing a salary range these companies would only cut off three states of ONE country.

Also, I'm pretty sure that if most of these companies disclosed the salary range it wouldn't be interesting for people living in the states in question.

What seems like an entry level salary for people in California, Washington, New York or Colorado is actually a great salary in pretty much 90% of the world. It shouldn't be a surprise that there are companies which decide to draw from the talent pool of this other 90% of the world.

Of course, it would still be nice if all companies started disclosing the salary range. I'd just be a bit more careful with strong statements like "this isn't a winning strategy" when talking about 4 states of one country in the context of the entire world.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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post #76

First posting I looked at is US/Canada remote only: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/academia-edu/jobs/s... edit: Did I misunderstand the premise? Seen a number of jobs that are North America based.

Hmm that's a bug and shouldn't be there. Sorry about that. Mind sharing any others you come across?
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