Just trying to understand how you landed your job and what skills helped you get it. I see a lot of people getting remote gigs that pay well.  How do you land a full time direct employment vs a yea...

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Just trying to understand how you landed your job and what skills helped you get it.
I see a lot of people getting remote gigs that pay well.

How do you land a full time direct employment vs a yearly contract? Are there are major cons for being in a contractual position?

Devs earning >50L and working remote

Lead Engineer

Devs earning >50L and working remote- Grapevine

Basically, I am interested in working for remote job. I have found far less resources and majorly all of them mention about open source contribution.

Anyone here who has gotten a remote job, can you explain the following-
1. How the experience has been?
2. How you got that job?
3. What are the pros/cons?
4. Would you recommend people to take it?

Folks who are working in remote jobs, can you explain in detail how you got it and how your experience has been

Consultant

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I see multiple folks posting about remote jobs with $100,000+ packages while working from India. Is it really possible?

Can anyone share their personal experience on how they landed a high paying remote job?

How do I land a remote job?

Growth And Strategy

I recently got a job offer at a well-funded remote startup headquartered in the US as a DevOps engineer. They adjust the salary package to account for the country so I won't be earning in crores... but I wanted to ask people who are in remote positions as to how to negotiate a salary that will be rigid more or less,no options are there to negotiate till a super high margin (maybe 10% max).

For example, they are offering 33 LPA currently, does that put me in a higher tax bracket and can I negotiate for a lower compensation so that I can be put in a lower tax bracket, say I ask for 29 LPA and ask for a joining bonus (or HRA) or some restructuring to do that? 

I don't understand how taxes work in India especially with remote payments but I'm hoping someone can offer the right guidance and resources so that I can look into this in depth later on as well. This is my first ever job and I got it straight out of college, so I do not mind even if they are paying me less than their US counterparts. This salary is more than enough to survive in a tier 2 city (will be shifting back to live with my parents).

I don't have much investments right nos, just a couple of FDs and some equity + debt funds along with stocks (mostly banks + chemical companies here and there). I can look into ELSS funds and what not if that can save up some taxes. I am considering talking to a CA about this too.

(Note: not comfortable with naming it even if this is an anonymous platform because it has like a strength of 50 and I feel it is irrelevant to the discussion).

TIA!

Tax savings and salary question for remote jobs

Scrum Master

I graduated in May 2023 and joined a US-based remote startup as an SDE in September 2023. They don't have a physical office in India, so they hired me via Deel (https://www.deel.com/) as an independent contractor.

In the future, if I plan to make a switch, will I face any problems as all the documents state that I'm a contractor and not a full-time employee?

The full-time employees of the company also work remotely, so the experience I get is pretty much the same.

To add some more context, I participated in Google Summer of Code 2023 and received the offer to work full-time later. So it is an open source organization, and all the pull requests I make are publicly available on my GitHub profile, but I highly doubt that the HR team will consider that.

I really love working here, but if it'll create some difficulty in the future, then I might have to reconsider.

Help and suggestions would be really helpful.

Remote job right after college

Software Developer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I recently received an offer from a early stage startup. But they told that that pay in contractual basis. when asked about the reason they told that it helps the company and employees to save tax.

How does it work?
will it affect my future employment if I take this job? like if I join some other company will they accept that I was actually working fulltime.

The role is fulltime, but only the money transaction will happen as contractual.

How does Contract salary work for a fulltime role

Software Engineer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I frequently see these remote PM jobs that are promoted on LinkedIn and seem to pay quite well. Anyone has any experience interviewing with these or are currently working with them? Would be interesting to know if these are indeed remote and pay so much

Anyone has any insight into such remote roles?

Founder

Curious to know about career transitions of non tech roles.

Has anyone secured a full time on-site/remote job outside of India without having to study there?

Operations Manager

High taxes 
Office politics commute in traffic 

And the list goes on 

Anyways I’m going for further studies but for the next one year I’m looking for good high paying remote jobs which will pay upwards of 70 LPA (cash) 

If anyone has done or knows someone who has done it please let me know how it can be done 

Thanks

How do I get high paying remote jobs above 70-80 LPA

Anyone here working remotely as a data engineer?  How did you do it ? 
Is it good or bad ? Whats your opinion? 
Really want to know more about this .

Remote work good or bad?

Data engineer

Did anyone get a remote PM job from abroad?

Product Manager

Is it for real that we can work remotely for some org abroad and earn??

Need feedback from folks, who work remotely from India for companies outside India. 

How do you manage the timezone lapses? How do you manage being connected with the coworkers,  who are globally spread out?

Feedback on Remote-friendly companies

Program Manager

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So I'm a trainee rn and have been thinking of making a switch (later, not immediately). I'm really drawn to the prospects remote jobs offer. But there's gotta be some fine print. I mean it can't be the exactly the rosy picture techbros paint all the time.

So I want to know the stuff nobody really talks about in detail. Like how are you taxed : are there bands, etc. How is the work life balance like? Does working remotely full-time with people from all around the world feel the same as working in a multicultural office? Is it sustainable over a long period of time?

All of your opinions are appreciated :)

Remote work - the nitty-gritty.

MLE experience who understands DS modeling and has good experience with model deployment.

Experience: 7years+

Send your resume via DM drive link.

Strong with Glue Jobs, Airflow, SQL, AWS sagemaker, Kubernetes, Dockerization

Contract Job 12months then renewable
Pay: 70L Base Pay, India Remote
Benefits: You save a lot of tax with 44ada ruling only 50% i.e. 35L will be taxed.

Company already is Mature and not a Startup. Profitable and has 1000 employees many working for last 10years+

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Remote Worldwide Hiring Lead MLE

The gig economy has really taken off, hasn't it? I've got a friend who left her 9-to-5 to become a freelance graphic designer last year. 

She loves the flexibility, but man, does she stress about income stability. It's got me wondering about the trade-offs. 

For those of you who've made the jump to freelancing or contract work, what's been your experience? How do you handle the uncertainty?

From stable paycheck to freelance life: How do you deal with the uncertainties that come with this?

Hi folks,

I have freelanced on upwork earlier and maximum reached $20/hour in development gigs but got burned out by constant pressure of rebidding once the current project gets over. The profile is still 5 star rated but getting full time job through these freelancing platform require lots of marketing and bidding and it’s difficult with day job. However recently I have seem trend where there are some genuine folks such as harkirat who are upping the game by earning around 5 crore annually through posh remote jobs. Has anyone of you tried pursuing that route by reaching out to founders of early stage startups on twitter/linked in or used freelancing portals such as upwork to get full time gigs which pays more than $100k remotely. If yes please share some guidance. 

My stack: Mern /java full stack dev exp:7 years 

Video ref: https://youtu.be/8gbLg8MCWqg?si=OBAsoEvJPG3e1mSH

Earning 5crore plus on remote jobs

step 1) stop believing influencers.. they always sell success stories of top 5%

Cloud Architect

I am currently in the interview stages of a company in the payments domain.

I always wanted to work in this domain due to the nature of the work and I assume working in fintech gives you exposure for better future opportunities.

However, they are completely on site and I will have to travel 1.5-2 hrs daily one way (4 in total) 5 days a week.

Has anyone faced the same kind of dilemma and how have you decided on it?

I am also interviewing for remote companies but they are not part of the payment domain.

Role: Senior (5+ years)

Is it worth travelling 4 hours daily for a company?

I have 3.5 yoe and currently in my hometown which isn't a IT hub but still I am getting 8LPA. I am a full stack developer have knowledge in Angular, React, Node, MongoDB and AWS services. How do I switch and get a good paying job? Please guide me.

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