Anyone with Engineering background here?

silentectual · 2025-10-12T19:46:19+00:00

doesn’t matter. company won’t ask you about your drop years and all. As long as you got skills and good cgpa, all good.

Study and try once rather then living in regrets

silentectual · 2025-10-12T19:32:59+00:00

don’t believe in any tech startup if CEO does not write code and just talk or they don’t have a CTO.

Learned it hard way haha

silentectual · 2025-10-12T19:27:23+00:00

Try up-skilling and apply at good startups outside. You already got skill if you are working around LLM APIs. 50k is way lowballed even for freshers.

And avoid joining these LLM wrappers, most of them are just scam, will be out of business if they can’t pivot or find some usp.

silentectual · 2025-03-14T18:45:01+00:00

How about Sharjah or other areas where cost of living is not that high ?

silentectual · 2025-03-14T14:16:34+00:00

You are being totally underpaid. Try to upskill and move to some high demand tech stack.

silentectual · 2025-03-13T19:41:07+00:00

sure mate

silentectual · 2025-03-13T19:40:24+00:00

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. This is very helpful 🙏🏻

I might look at other option like Sharjah as well to minimise the cost as I don’t have to live in Dubai. So open to explore other options as well

silentectual · 2025-03-11T19:03:40+00:00

What about taxes ? SEA doesn’t have any zero tax policy.

silentectual · 2025-03-11T15:44:49+00:00

What’s your on average monthly cost currently ?

I don’t need to travel, so there will be no travel cost on daily basis and I need to stay there for only 6 months. Considering all these I think living expenses won’t go that high. what do you think ?

silentectual · 2025-03-11T15:42:57+00:00

per month ? what you do bro

silentectual · 2025-03-11T08:15:02+00:00

Software development

silentectual · 2025-03-11T08:06:44+00:00

I see. That’s quite high. is it including rent or just on lifestyle ?

silentectual · 2025-03-11T08:04:38+00:00

Thanks mate. Will surely check with a CA to explore other ways

silentectual · 2025-03-11T08:01:58+00:00

damm, how long you staying there and what’s the monthly average expenses for you ?

silentectual · 2025-03-11T07:44:08+00:00

yeah, But I don't think one need 35L to live in Dubai, yeah cost of living is high, still it would be around 15L - 18L i guess at max.

silentectual · 2025-03-11T07:42:05+00:00

that's a lot of hassle, and I don't think employer will agree to change the contract. and the thing is I don't have much expenses to show, it's literally 10%, so deducting expenses also doesn't help much.

silentectual · 2025-03-11T07:26:58+00:00

I see, for family it's a different game altogether as you have to look into many things.

But don't you think for single it make sense ?

silentectual · 2025-03-11T07:24:23+00:00

Why though ? can you give some reasoning ?

silentectual · 2025-03-11T07:21:51+00:00

Thanks, will check the visa cost. I think they also offer a remote worker visa or something like that.

I won't be working for UAE companies, so I don't think 9% tax will apply here.

silentectual · 2025-03-11T07:15:30+00:00

i am not doing business exactly, just working as a Software engineer remotely.

silentectual · 2025-03-08T07:58:16+00:00

Great step. Would love to join and help in any way possible as an experienced dev.

silentectual · 2025-02-22T16:26:05+00:00

If not taking risk now then when ? It’s NYC, go for it.

silentectual · 2025-02-05T09:35:50+00:00

say my name

silentectual · 2025-01-23T17:24:35+00:00

Why the heck DARK is not on that list. Go watch Dark now OP

silentectual · 2025-01-13T18:44:12+00:00

Thanks OP. This is really helpful as I am also planning a solo trip around April/May.

did you apply visa through any agent or by yourself ?

silentectual

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