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I've been looking for a remote job lately. Despite having interned at Microsoft and Google, almost nobody seems to be interested, and even if they are, it's for
by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
I've been looking for a remote job lately. Despite having interned at Microsoft and Google, almost nobody seems to be interested, and even if they are, it's for a salary like $30k. I'm in Eastern Europe, but still, that's a really low wage.
So if you're so desperate for engineers, why not hire remotely outside North America, the most competitive market in the world for engineers? I realize it's much more comfortable having everyone in the same timezone, but sure it's preferable to hiring nobody? Also you can probably pay 30% less and still get great engineers.
- morgante 10y agoIn my experience, it's simply too hard to separate the wheat from the chafe in off-shore hiring. The chance of ending up a with a complete dud is much higher when hiring someone remotely from a foreign country. Of course, it might also be simple racism. Otherwise I do admit to having difficulty explaining why I, as an American engineer, can make >$100k/yr even when working from outside the US while others make a fraction of that.
- wayn3 10y agoCompanies can usually not "just hire offshore". There are a bunch of legal and tax laws preventing them from doing so.
- ThePawnBreak 10y agoNot even as a contractor? So I would send an invoice and they pay it. I deal with the tax stuff.
- wayn3 10y agoHiring contractors is easy, but you can't retain them forever, or else the IRS will get bitchy about it. Or so I've heard.