How to crack a London(UK) role from India @ 3 yoe
I have been trying to go intl now that I have crossed 3 yoe of experience and I have seen college seniors crack Canada, UK, Germany roles in the past when they crossed 2/3 yoe. But my experience has been pretty bad, probably due to changing world view on work auth and in general tech downturn.
But I tried my hand around Asia( Thailand, Malaysia) and Middle East( Dubai) and in all fairness it is kinda easier to get an interview at decent places than even India and I got a few offers there but kinda dropped the idea coz I have been to malaysia and cost of living in KL is pretty high and the tech salaries offered I don’t think you can save much unless you live outside KL a little like Sepang(have met Indian folks who live in Sepang) and up down to city. I had similar experience for Dubai where salaries being offered didn’t ensure a decent saving/ investments. In my current Indian salary I kinda have decent margins to invest my money as well as spend on inlt travel.
Haven’t heard back even when I apply to similar AI roles in London/ Berlin. Any idea how to increase chances there?
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Sure is it related to applying in thailand/malaysia / dubai?
If so the top pointers are that they consider only above 2yoe as they would have to sponsor you. Thailand tax rate is high goes till 35% unless you work for some firms like agoda for which there is only 15% tax as these firms are considered in IBCs.
Malaysia again tax rate for expats is high initially (30% flat unless you have been in Malaysia for 182 days before tax assessment time) unless you become a tax resident which is then highly chill. For Avg mle / ai engg 3 yoe salary it comes to around 19% band usually post tax residency is achieved.
Dubai childum 0% tax . On top post you get tax residency in dubai thanks to dtaa with india indian investments capital gains are taxed at dubai rate 0 . All HR folks in dubai firms I applied were either punjabi or telegu/ kannadiga/ maha/kerla (/ used to explain equivalent proportion of both groups which I didn’t knew that Dubai was just another hub for Punj/Haryana/NCR folks, south and kerala ka toh idea tha) and were quite boastfull and using this as a selling point for dubai that if you have investment s in india you can operate them in better manner here.
Oddly I was suprised that India has so many dtaa(double tax avoidance) with almost 90+ countries. Itne ka toh Visa on arrival bhi nahi milta dhang se. basically NRI folks kinda have the besr advantage to invest in india and save taxes on their investments coz literally most barring western europe have lower taxes than india. Also nurses are kinda the most universal indian export. I kinda met an Indian nurse once who was heading out to falkland island on the airport. Took me a while to figure out what that place is😳
For thailand I kinda have indian origin cousins there so I applied and pay around is decent but I don’t wanna go Intl to a place which is kinda like close to extended family and I can visit anyway. Have some similar cases with Malaysia with cousins in Penang & klang which is why I kinda also want to avoid that. Dubai sounds cool but haven’t got a decent salary offer considering cost of living, so kinda afraid my current margins for investments would get affected. Although can probably save on capital gains and other taxes 🤔
Also facing the same issue but I got some remote gig but not any fancy big tech is not hiring from india not sure