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Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by jleyank »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #87
jkukul wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you move between countries you still must have a tax residency somewhere. So you're employed from the place where you have your tax residency.

Not really. I left Germany last year. As I wasn't a citizen and I'm not now a resident, I'm not a tax resident of Germany. Edit: clarification: I specifically de-registered with the German tax system, as required by German law. And to establish a new residency, I would have to live more than 180 days in that country, which I haven't yet. I have multiple citizenships, so I'm not automatically a tax resident of a count…

Unless the us is one of those citizenships which mandates filing. And I suspect that if you dodge tax residency by avoiding 180 days anywhere I figure you’re at risk to any border agent with a sore ass having a bad day.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by elkos »

jedberg wrote: post #72
l1am0 wrote: 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 c…

Greek here, we (a non-profit with 20+ employees and several contractors) are able to pay local people. Sometimes we hire contractors (people or companies) fron other European Union countries (mostly Germany and Spain). We would love to figure ways to pay people but it seems very complicated to do it ourselves.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by Beaver117 »

itake wrote: 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.

I've seen a footnote on some job sites that said something like "For Colorado residents the salary band is 50,000 to 999,999"

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by Beaver117 »

RestlessMind wrote: post #90
jkukul wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Colora…

> talent pool of this other 90% of the world I have hired a lot of people and for key hires above a certain level, existing tech hubs (SV, Seattle, NYC, Denver) account for a vast majority of the available candidate pool. There are a few other hubs beyond these (London, Singapore, Bangalore) but you are constraining yourself massively. New grads / junior ICs is another story.

Who do you mean by key hires? Senior SWE? Staff? Managers, Directors? I would think there are plenty of experienced people all over the world.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by RestlessMind »

Beaver117 wrote: post #94
RestlessMind wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> talent pool of this other 90% of the world I have hired a lot of people and for key hires above a certain level, existing tech hubs (SV, Seattle, NYC, Denver) account for a vast majority of the available candidate pool. There are a few other hubs beyond these (London, Singapore, Bangalore) but you are constraining yourself massively. New grads / junior ICs is another story.

Who do you mean by key hires? Senior SWE? Staff? Managers, Directors? I would think there are plenty of experienced people all over the world.

I would say for roles in senior management (Directors, VPs) and senior engineering (Tech lead, Chief Architect).

> I would think there are plenty of experienced people all over the world.

Unfortunately, no. Until 2020, remote work was rare so to grow into a senior role, ambitious and talented people had to move to various hubs. That created a feedback loop with all the senior talent flocking to major tech hubs. Now you will find only a tiny proportion of senior talent in non-hub locations.

So if you cut off major US tech hubs (SV, NYC, Seattle, Denver) from your hiring pipeline, you are cutting off a majority of your prospective senior hires.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by TheCoelacanth »

badcppdev wrote: post #36
a3w wrote: post #16

How does "payment in USD" work, if I am not from the US? If the exchange value drops, I cannot pay rent? Everyone should probably get the employer to offer a currency-hedged payment, the fee is not that high.

Can you tell me about how a hedging solution works when a nobody knows if the person will be working for the company for 2 months or 5 years? Is the salary to be renegotiated if the rate moves too much? The FX risk cannot be magicked away.

The risk can't be magicked away, but there is usually someone who will take on the risk for a cost.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by indymike »

paxys wrote: post #74
indymike wrote: post #54

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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.

Actually, it's fine. There's plenty of qualified tech workers everywhere else, and each of the three states listed creates huge burdens, either financially or bureaucratically for out of state employers.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by indymike »

comprev wrote: post #88
mbrameld wrote: post #82

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That probably has more to do with nexus for tax reasons than salary band advertising requirements.

Yes, that's probably the reason but also demonstrates how "limitations" on the supposed freedom of remote work have always been there.

In this case, the employer incurs cost in every state they create a nexus, and so yes, there is a limitation. My company uses a PEO that is able to employ people in every state, so we don't have this limitation, but the cost to carry an employee varies a lot from state to state... and that is before considering difference in local pay rates.

Re: Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by fomine3 »

snapcaster wrote: post #56
xwdv wrote: post #47

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It’s also pretty straightforward to work through a VPN and get paid out to foreign accounts.

Technically yes, but also this is likely fraud in most countries and would probably get you fired if found out

It's ongoing by North Korea https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/fbi_korea_freelancers...
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