[luzojeda]

Way better than 2023. 5 YOE web developer. From Argentina, though, we are benefitting from offshoring of course. But last year I had months with 0 reach outs. Nowadays every week at least 2 to 3 even with the looking for job Linkedin feature deactivated.

Last month around day 10 I made [this](https://i.imgur.com/uWoGaM3.png) taking note of reach outs. My personal anecdata, ofc...

[hn_throwaway_99]

Upvoted your post because I think what you're seeing is the flip side of so many devs in the US (especially junior devs) seeing a bad job market, and also significant downward pressure on salaries.

Of course outsourcing existed before the pandemic, but the pandemic really made everyone get used to working remotely, so now there is hardly any difference working between devs in the same city vs thousands of miles away, as long as there is considerable time zone overlap. I've seen an explosion of outsourcing to LatAm and Eastern Europe (vs the Asian outsourcing of the early-to-mid 00s), and have worked with some fantastic devs in those locations. It makes it hard to justify hiring a fresh college grad in the US if you can get a great senior dev from Argentina for less money.

[luzojeda]

Yes, of course it may be influenced by that but there were some companies from my cuontry reaching out to me as well. Not only software consulting companies from USA. Also, if you are in the west coast the timezone difference might be a nuisance tho. But for east coast companies yes, it can be a great deal.

Just as a sidenote: I've been job searching up until July and always took a look at the Who is hiring threads and saw that most of remote jobs are still for Europe only if company is EU based and USA/Canada if they're USA based. Though don't know how representative are people hiring from this platform.

And this caught my attention as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1edipfw/... considering it may be one of the most pessimistic communities out there. Haven't seen an optimistic post there for a while.

[santiagobasulto]

Off-topic: saludos compatriota!

[luzojeda]

Representin' <3