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  1. Article

    Pehli job ka offer letter: CTC 8 LPA hai toh haath mein kitna aayega? Pura breakdown

    Har saal yahi scene: fresher ko 8 LPA ka offer aata hai, ghar pe mithai baant di jaati hai, "beta 66 hazar mahina kamayega". Phir pehli salary slip aati hai aur 52 hazar dikhte hain. Dekho bhai, CTC aur in-hand do alag duniya hain. Aaj pura hisaab samjhata hoon. CTC kya hota hai CTC = Cost To Company. Matlab company tum pe saal mein kitna kharch karti hai. Isme woh paisa bhi hai jo kabhi tumhare bank account mein…

    Rohit Verma17likes13comments

  2. Experience

    Bir veda yemeği daha / Another goodbye dinner (the fifth this year)

    Dün akşam bir veda yemeği daha vardı. Bu yıl beşinci. Ekipten Can, Amsterdam'a gidiyor. Kadıköy'de her zamanki meyhanede oturduk, rakı, meze, ve herkes aynı soruyu sordu: "Sen ne zaman gidiyorsun Elif?" (For the English readers: last night was another goodbye dinner. The fifth this year. Can from my team is moving to Amsterdam. We sat in our usual meyhane in Kadıköy, rakı, meze, and everyone asked the same question:…

    Elif Korkmaz12likes11comments

  3. Experience

    Month eight: I turned down the 60% offer, started contracting, and here are the full numbers

    A few people asked what happened with the 60% offer, so here's the update. The offer The company agreed to a 6-month compensation review, verbally. When the written offer came, the role had been "re-scoped" to mid-level, with a lower title and the same pay. I asked about it twice and got two different explanations. I declined. Several of you told me in that thread to take it, and it was good advice for the offer I…

    Kenji Tanabe22likes9comments

  4. Experience

    A US startup offered me $1,800/month for a senior React role. Here is what I answered

    Last week a recruiter from a startup in Austin wrote me on LinkedIn. Very nice, very excited. "Senior Frontend Engineer, React, TypeScript, Next.js, full overlap with Central time". I have 6 years working with React so I said ok, let's talk. Two calls and one take-home later (4 hours, unpaid, I know, I know), the offer: 1,800 USD per month, contractor, no PTO, "but great equity". For context: in Guadalajara some…

    Sofía Ramírez40likes12comments

  5. Article

    Laburar para afuera desde Argentina: lo que aprendí en 4 años (sin ser contador)

    Disclaimer que no es de compromiso: no soy contador . Las reglas en Argentina cambian cada seis meses, y lo que hoy es así mañana no. Esto es mi experiencia de 4 años laburando como contractor para empresas de afuera. Tómenlo como un mapa, no como la ley. 1. El contrato y el W-8BEN Si laburás para una empresa de Estados Unidos como contractor, te van a pedir el formulario W-8BEN. Sirve para declarar que no sos…

    Martín Ferraro9likes8comments

  6. Article

    Your 'global remote' salary band has a Lagos discount. Let's talk about it (1/14)

    1/ A European company posts a "fully remote, work from anywhere" role. A senior engineer in Lagos and one in Lisbon get the same title, the same tickets, the same on-call rota. One salary is 40% of the other. Let's talk about why, and whether it holds up. 2/ The company's argument is cost of living: "we pay for the local market". It sounds reasonable. It is also convenient, because it is always the company that…

    Achieng Owino33likes19comments

  7. Experience

    6 años cruzando la garita diario para trabajar en San Diego. Hace un año me hice remoto y bro, no regreso

    Qué onda, carnales. Les cuento porque ayer un compa de la oficina de San Diego me preguntó si "extrañaba ir" jajaja. De 2018 a 2024 mi rutina era: levantarme a las 4:30, salir a las 5:00, fila en San Ysidro. Con SENTRI, 30 a 45 minutos en un día bueno. Antes de tener SENTRI, dos horas, a veces más. Llegaba a la oficina en Sorrento Valley a las 8 ya cansado, con el café frío y escuchando la misma estación de radio…

    Iván Ochoa11likes8comments

  8. Article

    Being a woman engineering manager in Dubai: what nobody told me

    السلام عليكم. I studied computer science in Khartoum at a time when US sanctions meant half the developer tools on the internet refused to work for us. I moved to Dubai in 2016 through a recruiter, with one suitcase and a lot of confidence I had not earned yet. Today I manage twelve engineers from nine countries at a logistics company. Here is what I wish someone had told me. 1. Negotiate the basic, not only the…

    Hiba Osman43likes9comments

  9. Article

    Salary negotiation scripts that worked for me and 11 juniors (copy paste allowed)

    Over the last two years I have helped 11 juniors negotiate their offers, plus my own. Results from my spreadsheet: average increase over the first offer was 14% , range 0% to 31%. Two people got nothing extra. Nobody got their offer pulled for asking. That last line is the one I want freshers to read twice. Here are the exact scripts. Change the numbers, keep the shape. Script 1: "What is your current and expected…

    Kunal Bhatia52likes16comments

  10. Question

    4 co-op offers, which one?? (actual numbers, waterloo 3B)

    ok so it's ranking week and i somehow have 4 offers for my winter term and i'm losing my mind. numbers because that's the only way i can think: big bank, toronto. platform team. $34/hr CAD, hybrid 3 days, 4 months. return offer rate is "high" according to literally everyone big tech, seattle. SWE intern. $55/hr USD + housing stipend. J-1 paperwork, which my school handles series A startup, waterloo. $30/hr, full…

    Kelly Zhao10likes9comments

  11. Article

    Cómo conseguí chamba remota para una empresa gringa desde Guadalajara (y cuánto gano, sin pena)

    Gano 5,500 USD al mes. Soy frontend senior, contratista, para una empresa de San Francisco, desde Guadalajara. Lo digo con números porque cuando yo buscaba nadie decía cuánto, y por eso la primera vez me ofrecieron 2,000 y casi acepto. Si este post sirve para que una sola persona no acepte 2,000, ya valió la pena. Esto es lo que hice, en orden. No es la única forma, es la mía. 1. Inglés: no necesitas acento gringo…

    Sofía Ramírez24likes16comments

  12. Article

    Sueldos de programador en España: por qué un senior aquí cobra lo que un mid en Ámsterdam

    Quince años picando código. Backend Java en un banco de Madrid. Cobro 48.000 brutos al año y en mi planta me consideran afortunado. Un compañero que se fue a Ámsterdam hace dos años entró de mid por bastante más que eso. No lo digo por envidia, lo digo porque en España nadie quiere hablar de números y así nos va. 1. Las cárnicas Para quien no lo sepa: "cárnica" es como llamamos aquí a las consultoras que alquilan…

    Javier Montero8likes11comments

  15. Question

    German client wants me 'full time but as a freelancer' through my SRL for 2 years. Is the risk only theirs, or also mine?

    We have a saying here: the cheap thing comes out expensive. I want to check before I sign something cheap. Context: I am a Java/Spring developer in Cluj and I invoice through my own SRL. A client in Munich wants me for minimum 2 years, 40 hours a week, their Jira, their laptop, their standups, their working hours. Basically an employee, but on invoice. Their lawyer mentioned "Scheinselbstständigkeit" and now they…

    Andrei Mureșan7likes9comments

  16. Article

    Service company vs product company: 9 saal dono taraf kaam kiya hai, ab sach sun lo

    Kal Ankit ne apna monthly rant daala, "WITCH model is why Indian engineering has a bad name". Main usse hamesha "calm down" bolta hoon. Aaj properly jawab dunga, aaram se, chai leke. Pehle disclaimer: main dono taraf kaam kar chuka hoon. 4 saal ek badi service company mein (Noida, banking client), 5 saal ek product company mein (haan, Noida mein bhi product companies hoti hain 😂). Toh ye opinion bahar se nahi hai.…

    Rohit Verma39likes35comments

  17. Article

    monthly rant: the WITCH model is why indian engineering has a bad name

    ok here it goes. once a month i say this and once a month the bench army comes for me. the big service cos hire freshers in bulk at 3.5 lpa, park them on bench for months, then bill them to a client as "consultant" at a dollar rate. the fresher learns nothing. the client gets a ticket closer. the company keeps the margin. this is not engineering. this is staffing with extra steps. and then the same people come to…

    Ankit Khurana8likes16comments

  18. Question

    Take the offer at 60% of my old salary, or keep looking? Honest input wanted.

    Context for anyone who hasn't seen my earlier posts: senior backend engineer, laid off in February after nine years at a large tech company. The offer: senior engineer at a mid-size company. Base about 60% of my old base. Equity that rounds to nothing. Hybrid, 3 days a week, 50-minute commute each way. Pending: two other final loops, results expected in 2 to 4 weeks. No guarantees. Runway: severance runs out in…

    Kenji Tanabe14likes9comments

  21. Article

    India's 90-day notice period: buyout, early release, and what HR won't tell you

    Every second DM I get is about notice periods. "Bhai new company 30 days mein join karne bol rahi hai, mera 90 days hai, kya karun?" So here is everything in one place. I am not a lawyer. This is what actually happens in practice. Why 90 days Most service companies and many large product companies in India have 60 to 90 days in the appointment letter. Startups are often 30 to 60. Read your own letter tonight, not…

    Kunal Bhatia7likes8comments

  22. Experience

    Cobro en dólares y vivo en pesos: así es un mes cualquiera

    Laburo para una empresa de Estados Unidos hace 4 años. Cobro en dólares. Y les juro que lo primero que aprendí en este laburo no fue Go, fue a mirar cotizaciones. Durante años mi día 1 del mes era así: cobrar, abrir tres apps, ver a cuánto estaba el oficial, el MEP, el blue y el cripto, y elegir el menos malo. Había cuatro o cinco dólares distintos según a quién le preguntaras. Una vez cambié con un arbolito en la…

    Martín Ferraro12likes10comments

  23. Article

    How I price on Upwork after 7 years: hourly, fixed, and the number I never go below

    My first Upwork job in 2017 was $8 an hour fixing a WordPress contact form. Today I charge $45 an hour for Laravel and React, and fixed projects are priced from the same number. Here is how I think about it. Numbers are mine, from Lagos, Top Rated Plus. Your market may be different. 1. Pick a floor and never go below it My floor is $35 an hour. If a job cannot pay that, I do not apply. The floor comes from simple…

    Oluwatobi Adeyemi13likes11comments

  24. Article

    CLT vs PJ: a conta que ninguém faz direito (e por que 10k PJ não é 10k CLT)

    Toda semana alguém me chama no privado: "caio, me ofereceram 10k PJ, hoje ganho 9k CLT, aceito?". Mano. Senta aqui. Vamos fazer a conta que ninguém faz. Aviso: não sou contador. Números redondos, de boteco, pra entender a ordem de grandeza. Pra decisão de verdade, contador de verdade. CLT de R$ 10.000 por mês O que você recebe no ano, bruto: 12 salários (um deles é o mês das férias): R$ 120.000 13º salário: R$…

    Caio Nascimento17likes13comments

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