> Smart developers are leaving.
I'm in Ōtepoti/Dunedin (best city in NZ!), and within my social network most developers work remotely for overseas companies.
I'm in Ōtepoti/Dunedin (best city in NZ!), and within my social network most developers work remotely for overseas companies.
100%. There are 2 NZ employment markets. Those working for NZ companies in the $100k region, and those working for US firms for the $200+k region.
I've had an annoying time explaining this to past US employers when they present median values for NZ salary fudge factors.
The few job boards I've seen all have either low salaries, or are US-only...
FWIW - technically I run a NZ company, so am a contractor and not an employee of the company that my day-to-day manager works for. This arrangement seems to be common among people who work for US companies, or are US citizens, which brings up some questions about the stats in the article...
My team of ~12 is nearly ~30% kiwi at this point.
All you other NZ devs should join the Slack server I founded for IT people in NZ. https://dev.elop.nz/ a lot of us work remotely. We have a dedicated jobs channel and all - we also have some very good recruiters. (700ish people)
That is something I need to look into. I'm guessing now is a bad time to be looking for international work. It seems like the job market is not great internationally.