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I'm a US Citizen and have been working remotely from Taiwan for the last 6 years. The first 3 I was working mostly on "solo" projects and pretty much only did a
by justinram11 4y ago
I'm a US Citizen and have been working remotely from Taiwan for the last 6 years. The first 3 I was working mostly on "solo" projects and pretty much only did async communication except for the occasional once-a-month meetings late my time / early US time. I thought it worked great.
The 4th and 5th year I was working full-time as an IC an actual US-based team from about 3pm - 12am Taiwan time. Not great, but still manageable and allowed for 3-4 hours of overlap with CST.
Now I'm working in a Tech Lead role (small company w/ 5 person dev team) with a split schedule of 10am-2pm and 7pm - 12am. I've noticed at this stage that I'm struggling a lot more with the time zone difference and it's really starting to have an impact on my family now that my son is 2 years old and wants a more "natural" schedule.
Personally, I'd target small companies on the east coast if you enjoy working nights, and west coast if you enjoy getting up early. In your soft interviews, stress your great communication skills beyond anything else.
- sawirricardo 4y agoThanks for sharing @justinram, how did you discover companies like that?