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There's nothing stopping companies from shipping their jobs overseas. It's always been an option. Luckily (for Americans), we as workers carry significant advan
by ironmagma 6y ago
There's nothing stopping companies from shipping their jobs overseas. It's always been an option. Luckily (for Americans), we as workers carry significant advantages over those who work overseas. If we didn't, there would be no reason to hire locally at all.
- tester756 6y agowhat are those "significant advantages"?
- ironmagma 6y agoNo idea, but I presume it’s partly education/pedigree, lack of language barrier, accountability due to being in the same network, and availability in the same timezones.
- RestlessMind 6y agoEnglish. Timezones. Also, lack of enough talent in other countries with similar timezones (Canada/Mexico) since talented folks there can easily move to the US on TN visa. A lot of high-growth companies starting in the US[1], thus providing a BATNA to what your current job is offering. Lack of regulatory hurdles to hire more in the US vs setting up shop in a different country and bring in more regulatory compliance requirements. [1] This itself is due to other factors like: deep capital pools available for seemingly ridiculous ideas, lots of existing talent available to scale your company once there is a product market fit (all the current execs/senior people in tech), relatively less regulations etc.
- nojvek 6y agoMoved from Australia to US. The significant advantage is same timezone, physical proximity, top notch CS universities and the idea that birds of a feather flock together. Remote is great, but there’s something valuable about being in the same room when making decisions. The communication bandwidth really matters for small to medium sized startups. I don’t have strong data to back this up, but an anecdotal evidence is how many unicorns SV spins up vs rest of the world. The concentration of talent + VCs + risk tolerating culture is what makes SV special.