Re:Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?
by nvarsj on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:44AM
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There are a couple reasons:
1. Admin overhead - You need to setup presence in all the countries you have employees in. This costs time and money.
2. Timezone overlap - It's somewhat common wisdom that remote teams need to have overlapping timezones (no more than 3-4 hours out) to be effective. US vs EU difference is just too great (+8 hours from west coast of the US).
Source: I work for a US based company as a full time remote employee in the EU. Applied to many places that told me US only, despite very good qualifications. This one I got into because they have a lot of EU teams.
1. Admin overhead - You need to setup presence in all the countries you have employees in. This costs time and money.
2. Timezone overlap - It's somewhat common wisdom that remote teams need to have overlapping timezones (no more than 3-4 hours out) to be effective. US vs EU difference is just too great (+8 hours from west coast of the US).
Source: I work for a US based company as a full time remote employee in the EU. Applied to many places that told me US only, despite very good qualifications. This one I got into because they have a lot of EU teams.