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... 👇
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
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?