There's a reason most companies are opening offices in Cluj, Bucharest, Praha, Lodz, Warsaw, Kyiv, Budapest, Tel Aviv, San Jose CR, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, etc now - a mix of government incentives requiring asses on seats as well as situations like above.
The US jobs market is crazy
Depends on skillset as well. The biggest driver for jobs moving abroad is the fact that most CS programs no longer require low level or backend knowledge (distributed systems, OS internals, networking, database internals, C/C++) or teach it at a very high level.
Meanwhile, universities in CEE, Israel, India, etc still club CE and CS into a single degree (NAND to Tetris to React), making students much more well rounded for tech roles.
For example, my alma mater (Ivy League or Ivy Tier) stopped requiring the OS/Systems Programming class that made you diffuse the GDB bomb or truly understand how malloc works. Same thing at other peer universities except EECS@Cal, CS/ECE@UIUC, and CS/ECE@CMU.
I'm a citizen and resident of literally the closest US ally, speak the same American, have the same timezone, and I would take that job for half the money minus one dollar.
The article doesn't say it's one job and that they were employed for the whole period. Put enough people on an interviewing / meetings / minimum work rotation and I'm sure they could average 2-3 paid positions each.
Yeah. But it might even not be a real story. It could be a propaganda piece to heighten awareness about the intimidating military and technological capabilities of North Korea, lol. Perhaps some (US) government/military department wants a bigger budget next year, and this sort of story helps justify their case.
If you're willing to completely fabricate a educational and work background to suit a specialized role, and the company gets lax on its background checking you can get away with it too.
If you're able to lie about pretty much everything and hire an SME to ace the interviewing process, then you too can commit identity fraud for employment.
errrr I'm not saying I want to fake it, I'm talking about actually qualifying for such a job (I've worked in this field for 20+ years, tons of experience), where does one find such a job that's paying such amounts for remote work and relatively few meetings?
(I have enough contracting work through my client network anyway, was just amusingly asking)
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$250k/year for a job that they seemingly never needed to take a single meeting and can work remotely? Buried the lede here!
Im an EU citizen from a NATO country and would take that job for half the money and I also don't want to nuke you. The US jobs market is crazy.
There's a reason most companies are opening offices in Cluj, Bucharest, Praha, Lodz, Warsaw, Kyiv, Budapest, Tel Aviv, San Jose CR, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, etc now - a mix of government incentives requiring asses on seats as well as situations like above.
Depends on skillset as well. The biggest driver for jobs moving abroad is the fact that most CS programs no longer require low level or backend knowledge (distributed systems, OS internals, networking, database internals, C/C++) or teach it at a very high level.
Meanwhile, universities in CEE, Israel, India, etc still club CE and CS into a single degree (NAND to Tetris to React), making students much more well rounded for tech roles.
For example, my alma mater (Ivy League or Ivy Tier) stopped requiring the OS/Systems Programming class that made you diffuse the GDB bomb or truly understand how malloc works. Same thing at other peer universities except EECS@Cal, CS/ECE@UIUC, and CS/ECE@CMU.
I'm a citizen and resident of literally the closest US ally, speak the same American, have the same timezone, and I would take that job for half the money minus one dollar.
The article doesn't say it's one job and that they were employed for the whole period. Put enough people on an interviewing / meetings / minimum work rotation and I'm sure they could average 2-3 paid positions each.
Yeah. But it might even not be a real story. It could be a propaganda piece to heighten awareness about the intimidating military and technological capabilities of North Korea, lol. Perhaps some (US) government/military department wants a bigger budget next year, and this sort of story helps justify their case.
Yeah, how can I get one of these? And I'm a real person, in the US, who actually knows "computer stuff", not some North Korean shell.
If you're willing to completely fabricate a educational and work background to suit a specialized role, and the company gets lax on its background checking you can get away with it too.
If you're able to lie about pretty much everything and hire an SME to ace the interviewing process, then you too can commit identity fraud for employment.
errrr I'm not saying I want to fake it, I'm talking about actually qualifying for such a job (I've worked in this field for 20+ years, tons of experience), where does one find such a job that's paying such amounts for remote work and relatively few meetings?
(I have enough contracting work through my client network anyway, was just amusingly asking)