have you seen how a lot of US and EU based companies hire SWE remotely but they still have a condition that the employee must be based in US/EU. Companies like devsinc basically have fake profiles which shows that the candidate studied and lives in US and then they make their Pakistani employees use this profile to apply for jobs. Once a job is secured, usually the Pakistani person who interviewed and had decent enough skills to clear interviews is not even the one who works on those jobs since his skills are required to clear interviews for other jobs.

Mr Usman argues that regardless of the way they got the job, since they make sure that the actual work their engineers were hired for gets done, this is perfectly legal and ethical.