How do you rate yourself as higher than dime a dozen? I work as a full remote dev but I am not sure I am anything special, I mean how do you know that you are objectively good.
Where did I say anything about myself? Sounds like projection or some deep insecurities if you meant it _that_ way.
If you're asking what would constitute someone being special, it would depend on the role and skillset. As I said in my earlier comment, someone who is a beast and can find and fix bugs in compilers is a rare person. Especially if that skillset can help the company save boatloads of money that can be deployed elsewhere.
There are probably only a handful of people in the world who understand and can push the AI landscape forward. A lot of them are Chinese immigrants, and yet OpenAI/Meta/etc are paying them boatloads of money.
As for remote roles, I once worked on a project where we hired some dude for like $500/hr as a contractor because he was one of the few people who knew the inside/out of postgres and oracle rdbms because we were doing some very important migration.
If you're asking what would constitute someone being special, it would depend on the role and skillset. As I said in my earlier comment, someone who is a beast and can find and fix bugs in compilers is a rare person. Especially if that skillset can help the company save boatloads of money that can be deployed elsewhere.
There are probably only a handful of people in the world who understand and can push the AI landscape forward. A lot of them are Chinese immigrants, and yet OpenAI/Meta/etc are paying them boatloads of money.
As for remote roles, I once worked on a project where we hired some dude for like $500/hr as a contractor because he was one of the few people who knew the inside/out of postgres and oracle rdbms because we were doing some very important migration.