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by imadethis 379 days ago
Are there many people involved in follow the sun support or SRE roles there? I know my company only has an engineering presence in Aus and Japan because of the large coverage gap between the US west coast and the EU. Seems like low wages + native English* could be a nice win for companies.

* For some definitions of native. I've had to work as a translator for a Kiwi and an American, both native English speakers.
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latentsea 379 days ago
> Seems like low wages + native English* could be a nice win for companies.

It's not always native English. It's always at least proficient enough, but a good chunk of the workers in the tech sector speak English as a second language. NZ has very diverse population.

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JusticeJuice 379 days ago
I know that aws has a few reliability engineers in Wellington, but that’s just to support their aus servers. There really isn’t that many foreign companies outsourcing support to NZ.
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te_chris 378 days ago
It's a slightly weird one, but Octopus Energy (UK) have setup a new utility in NZ and it also covers off-hours support.
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