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How I Went from Being “Nobody” in India to Earning $100K+ as a Remote Engineer 🚀 (Roadmap 🧵)
It all started in 2023 when I watched a video on remote work by @kirat_tw and it turned out to be the best decision of my career. Here's why... 👇
Jacques.web3
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Jacques.web3
@jacques_web3
Joined October 2011
- Unpopular opinion: Software engineering is the only job where the interview is harder than the actual job Interview: Design a distributed system for 10M users Job: The login button moved 2 pixels, please fix
- just found out that Domino's stock has outperformed every big tech stock in the past decade.
- Software engineer career path: - Intern ($50k) - Junior ($80k) - Senior ($150k) - Staff ($250k) - Farmer ($30k but actually happy)
- mf had no macbook, no cursor, yet he managed to build facebook at just 19 years old. What's your excuse?
- we should start brute forcing satoshi's private key. imagine if we pull it off?
- this mf makes $400k, lives in a $50 studio apartment, owns 12 mechanical keyboards, and hasn't touched grass since 2019.
- Sorry, Indian government, I won't be filing my taxes this time. Not because I don't want to, but because your website is not working as it was developed by an Infosys intern who frankly doesn't even get paid enough to give a shit. ps: I'll redesign the system for free if you
- A junior dev applied to 950 companies. Got 12 responses. 3 interviews. 0 offers. He codes better than most seniors. It's not the devs, the system is broken.
- Something no Indian wants to admit... India produces 1.5M software engineers yearly, while China 1.3M and USA 200k. Yet.. America: Google, Apple, ChatGPT. China: Deepseek, TikTok, Alibaba. Not even one big tech from India. What's wrong? Are we dumb or only good as employees?
