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Remote role? Why would anybody pay UK wages instead of $developing_country wages?

Everyone in the thread is saying that, but in my experience, not many companies are even hiring remote employees abroad.

Honestly, like the international landscape for salaries has kind off like normalised itself. Wages for SWEs are more or less the same across the globe when you look at remote work.

Intelligent people are cutting costs instead of trying to earn more money

In the US I have noticed that the tier 2/3 tech cities SWE salaries seemed to raise a bit with covid and level off. The Tier 1 tech cities they seem to (outside of AI) have dropped a bit after the covid boom amid massive layoffs. Remote seems to be kind of independent of location but I see some remote places paying more Tier 2/3 level salaries

How do people find jobs in the US?

In the UK you're usually "discovered" by a company's talent team or independent recruiters.

I've had very little to no success with direct applications

In the US you direct apply typically, or you can work with a recruiter who will connect you with jobs. I don't know about being discovered by a talent team, that's never happened to me, maybe for some people.

any recruiters you'd recommend?

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