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I am from Sweden and I switched job like 4 months ago, and now I am switching again because I am relocating to South-East Asia to work an international company
by viking123 3y ago
I am from Sweden and I switched job like 4 months ago, and now I am switching again because I am relocating to South-East Asia to work an international company (their process lasted like 2 months but there were large caps between interviews). In Sweden maybe my interview to application rate was 60% or so, and I only applied to roles that I felt were relevant to my skillset (TS, JS, node, react, python). My background is bachelor's and master's degree in CS and 4 years of experience in what I would call a high growth startup.
Tbh I think one major reason I got this job was that I can communicate fluently in english, both written and spoken, and they want that people can communicate with the possible stakeholders because the company language is English. Many of the interviewers said my communication was very good, as I just spoke my thoughts aloud and explained everything.
They said that large portion of the candidates can barely understand what the Leetcode question asks and spend long time just reading, also most people take 30+ minutes to fill two functions that is just basically react setState (and they have react in their CV). I was quite surprised really.
Although, if I had USA salary, the decision would be more difficult for sure, but now it is obvious. My visa is being processed now, and my plan is to stay at least until I get PR in the said country.
The job market seems particularly bad in the USA from what I have read, in Sweden it is much worse than before but I would not say as bad as USA, but obviously the salary isn't as great either. We can hope the market gets better..
If nothing is holding you down and it is looking really bad, it might be worth looking abroad if you can accept the lower salary but also relatively lower costs. I also had some interviews in Japan and quite a few companies there seem to be willing to sponsor the visa and take care of that, also the interviews not as hard as American companies. The more global companies like LINE etc seem to have relatively ok salaries compared to the local companies, and the culture is not as bad.