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Re:Move over, remote jobs. CEOs say borderless talent is the... by zlurker on Saturday July 06, 2024 @03:53PM (#40892768)
Timezones still play a huge part here as well. My team has several engineers who are at par compared to the rest of the team but they're a pain to work with due to a 10 Hour time difference.They may be paid 50% less but they're 50% harder to work with to no real fault of their own
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Re:Move over, remote jobs. CEOs say borderless talent is the... by http-teapot on Saturday July 06, 2024 @05:26PM (#40893445)
Engineers in LATAM are increasingly popular for that reason; the timezone difference is about four hours from PST and about one hour from EST.
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Re:Move over, remote jobs. CEOs say borderless talent is the... by alephnerd on Saturday July 06, 2024 @05:56PM (#40893632)
> Engineers in LATAM are increasingly popular

It's because of the tax holiday Costa Rica is giving [0][1][2], and VMWare's acquisition by Broadcom (they had a massive engineering campus in San Jose, Costa Rica) leaving a lot of Support Engineers and C++ Engineers on the market.

Czechia, Romania, and Poland did the same thing in the 2010s, Israel and India in the 2000s, and Taiwan and South Korea (in electronics) in the 1990s.

[0] - https://www.thegreenparkfz.com/

[1] - https://afz.cr/v5/en_us/about-us/

[2] - https://www.procomer.com/wp-content/uploads/Guia-Zonas-Franc...

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