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What countries are you interviewing with? I'm in the US and on a remote team. We have a counterpart team based out of Bangalore. The biggest challenge for us i
by awithrow 7y ago
What countries are you interviewing with?
I'm in the US and on a remote team. We have a counterpart team based out of Bangalore.
The biggest challenge for us is simply the time zone difference. There is nearly very little time where the US team's working hours and the India team's working hours overlap. The only way to have face-to-face time is if people from one country start work really early and one country stay working rather late.
This means that something like a code review can be delayed a long time. If two team members are working at the same time, the review might take an hour or two. If the review is between India/US team members the same review can take 3-4 days in the best case: (1. code, 2. review, 3. address review, 4. approve)
So really we're looking for projects for the teams that can be done independently with as little cross-country review as possible but this is tricky for our project's current state of development.
I guess the takeaways would be:
Look for roles in countries that have working hours with overlap with your own. A remote team doesn't necessarily mean any timezone
Look for roles with larger companies. If a large company does remote, it's probably more likely that they would have a team with similar hours to your own.
- jatins 7y agoI don't think the author is talking about _that_ kind of remote. A lot of companies have dev offices in India, while they sell in US primarily. Nutanix, Ruberik, SumoLogic come to mind. Author is talking more about office less companies like GitLab, Automattic. @OP FWIW, I know a friend of friend who worked at Automattic and GitLab had a couple devs from India last time I checked. (But from their salary calculator, it seems GitLab pays much below Indian market salaries)
- mightymosquito 7y ago> Author is talking more about office less companies like GitLab, Automattic. So these are the exact type of companies I am talking about. > But from their salary calculator, it seems GitLab pays much below Indian market salaries I am not sure about this, but from whatever information I have been able to gather/ask people remote companies tend to pay much better than what Indian companies pay.
- awithrow 7y agoI think the take aways still stand. Our US team doesn't have a central office, we're spread out across the US timezones but there is still a large overlap when we are working so its easier to synchronize when we need to. It's the lack of overlapping schedules, not office space that is the sticking point.