I'm currently L5 SWE at Google NYC, TC $450k.
I'm looking to relocate to Spain for a few years and debating what my options are:
- Many remote-friendly companies require work from the US, or at least being a US resident with very occasional and temporary stints abroad if at all possible.
- Being an employee resident of Spain would require my employer to follow Spanish laws so this seems like a big hurdle for them. Not many big tech companies have engineering offices in Spain.
- Perhaps smaller companies could hire me as a consultant in which case I'll be responsible for my own withholding, benefits, etc. That seems doable but more complicated.
- Local job market in Spain doesn't seem great at all regarding TC.
I guess my best shot is either a startup or local company, forgoing larger TC.
Has anyone been in a similar situation?
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1. If you can negotiate working remotely with your team, even with a 50% pay-cut, you'll be earning way more than any alternative.
2. I'd network like crazy in the year before you leave - get to know the interesting, highly-paid, fully-remote consulting firms that your social network has created or discovered. You can find decent-to-awesome opportunities with all sorts of different expectations and compensation, e.g., 5-40 hours per week per client with pay from $50-$200 per hour
3. You can try to find something local, but you'll take something like a 60% pay-cut and you'll work very similar hours
4. You can do something completely different and live off of savings (rent for a great 2-bedroom in Central Madrid outside of the most expensive neighborhoods is less than $1500/month). So if you want to develop your skills, study, work on a personal project, or start a non-profit - there are few places that are as cheap and safe (financially, socially, and in terms of physical danger) than big cities in Spain.
Happy to offer more about my experience, but it was a bit atypical from what I've heard.