I wonder what this will do to the US developer salary premium. You could, for reasons I never entirely understood, make so much more money doing the same job in the US than anywhere else. And I don't mean comparing to India or China, but comparable CoL countries in e.g. Europe.
Sure, US is more productive, has bigger tech companies, attracts talent, and not least, their hectocorns are truly making the world a better place with their CRUD apps and REST APIs.
But at these levels of imbalance, already a long time ago I would have expected US companies to move a lot of their software engineering efforts to Europe or India or elsewhere, and it just wasn't happening, despite SE being one of the most remote-able jobs ever.
But now, the trickle of expat workers into the US appears to be drying up, apparently Americans are leaving too. There will be more and more pressure for these companies to hire abroad even for non-monetary reasons (as is already happening) and I fear for my fellow American HNians that they will like paying a fraction of the cost for the same job.
On a meta note, this comment section is absolutely littered with flagged and dead comments from fresh accounts. There are certain topics that really bring out the emotions.
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How? It's not like people can just decide to move to another country and they will say "sure, come on in!" right?
Are they getting visas from work or a spouse or something? Surely that does not account for a vast majority of cases?
Just out of curiosity. The companies let you work remotely from Europe and preserve remote work?
Are they giving up citizenship as well?
Honestly lately I’ve been feeling like this must be the perfect time to move to the US.
I've lately been asking my coworkers if they would have come to the US if it looked like this back when they were first applying.
Not one of them has answered yes.