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I've been working multiple remote jobs for the past 4 years. I'm currently working 4 full time engineering roles and a part time contract. It's been tough but a great experience.

The main struggle is scheduling and making sure you can make all the meetings. It's also tough finding the right job which gives you autonomy to form your schedule.

The main perks are obviously money and not caring about getting laid off. In this market it's pretty hard to get laid off, we shall see how it plays out over the next few years.

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TC or GTFO. (Am I doing that right?)

Currently at 1.8m ish total comp:

  - 1.2m cash
  - 300k RSUs (probably worthless or I leave before 4 year vesting cliff)
  - 200k equity (only one job is at a publicly traded company)
  - <150k cash bonus

More power to you, man. I find 0..1 of these startups provides enough daily aggravation. (Though that could argue for throwing a pile together and ending it quickly.)

I also dislike working at these places. This is something I'll be doing for a few years and then leaving corporate life with a big pile.

jeez, where are you getting jobs where you can work like 2-3 hrs a day and get paid 250k + ? Are u a leetcode god or a 10x programmer?

Senior to Staff positions at medium to large private or mid cap public companies expect little from their engineers :).

Definitely not 10x and I suck at leetcode style problems. I'm probably a 2xer who acts like a 1xer. That's the real secret. Don't overachieve.

You are actually the living proof there is a 5x to 10x difference between some programmers. Since you have 4.5 jobs.

Thanks for coming forward.

I guess technically the math works out that way :)

In my opinion I'm seriously mediocre as an engineer. Slightly above average at best. I'm just good at managing my time, which is more of a business/personal skill than any engineering skill.

sometimes i won't feel like starting a task for like 3 hrs into my workday, you must be a god at sticking to a schedule.

Do you have an email interested individuals can contact you on?

For my own sake I'm probably going to be completely anon, but you should check out the following site for a community of overemployed folks:

https://overemployed.com/

Could you make a protonmail address?

It is good to have a circle of non-public capable people.

Will be good if you can be contacted.

Series D companies above 1B valuation?

How did you make it to senior staff without leetcode? How many years YOE to get there?

I did a lot of leetcode when I first started. Nowadays, and especially in this market, it's not hard to find companies not doing any leetcode style interviews. If you have a decent GitHub profile and years of experience you can outright say in interviews that you won't be doing any leetcode style problems. It's an engineers market, take advantage of it!

How many years in a number?

Which kind of companies are you talking about? Lifestyle business or seed stage or Series A / B / C / D / E?

Nobody really looks at GitHub though. A/b tested it and only very few looked.

interested in knowing how do you manage your time at 4 FTE roles ? I also would like to understand the systems / machines that they provide

I purposely job hunt for low performing teams/companies who are willing to pay for experience. Also, managing my calendar religiously is a must.

Where do you look for them?

How many YOE did you have when you first started being overemployed? What do you see to know that they are low performing and willing to pay for experience?

is this even legal?

Depends what you mean exactly. It's almost certainly a breach of all of the contracts, unless they were quite sloppily drafted, but it's probably not a crime [1]. The repercussions would be as determined by the contracts — likely just termination.

[1] Not legal advice. It could maybe be fraud depending on the details?

It may be against his contract, but none of the employment contracts I've ever had stipulated that I couldn't hire out my services elsewhere. Why do you think it'd be illegal?

Maybe, which means yes it is legal.

Will anybody come after me? Doubt it's worth it to come after an engineer making 250K and will work at your company for less than 2 years.

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