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Comment by nikivi | Hacker News Reader

I would love for this to happen as it's quite a shame really how most companies still require you to move to US to work despite being a tech company.

So much talent is not even considered due to archaic immigration laws of US.

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It’s miserable trying to schedule meetings between Europe and the US/Pacific time zone. Even if every is remote, being in the same time zone is everything.

Even just east coast versus west coast kind of sucks and leads to inefficiency if product teams are spread across those timezones. I've done some work with west coast Europe, it's bad, 8am meetings so I can catch them at 4pm, yuck. I imagine any further than that would be horribly inefficient. We're moving to teams being able to work anywhere within +/- 1 hour of time zone.

Latin America solves this nicely. I've done a significant amount of work with teams in central and south America. It has been fantastic.

I also relocated to Puerto Rico myself at the end of March. The rise of remote work and the tax benefits here make it too good to pass up.

Given the time zone difficulties and inefficiencies it brings, I wouldn't consider hiring anyone outside of the time zones that span the Americas. Totally okay hiring someone in Brazil or Peru or whatever, but not France or Eastern Europe especially. Which sucks for me because I recently tried to hire some amazing ML engineers in Paris laid off because of covid and couldn't get them to budge on moving to my companies time zone.

Maybe look for people nearer the Alps, being able to ski before work is good.

USA imports more tech workers than every other country combined

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