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Do you recommend the Philippines to work at as a developer? What can I expect? Will it be fast-paced? Will it have a good work-life balance (especially for people who are raising a family)? What types of employers or companies are in the industry? Are salaries reasonable? Are projects intense? Etc... Sorry for asking a subjective question, it's not really about programming. When I ask friends, they don't give me a straight answer. Thank you. Please let me know how I can reciprocate your help. |
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If you work on your LAMP projects from the Philippines but continue to serve US/foreign clients - then that's a huge savings in cost of living. |
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How about letting your current employers/colleagues know that you're considering moving to the Philippines and then maybe they can arrange something for you. You can then start your own company, sub-contract work from them and achieve the work/life balance that you desire. But of course, it would be a lot better if you can develop your own products instead of purely contracting work, but that's probably a totally different story. :) |
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I agree with cruizer, companies do vary in culture, salary, etc. But generally from what I observed, if you work with startups you should expect to be an all-around developer(code,test,qa,deploy,maintain), unless they have sufficient staff. If you go to BPOs most of the work is maintenance and if you go to mid-size development company you can expect anything between BPOs and startups(from maintenance to ground-up projects and well-defined roles). However, since you work with the LAMP stack there's always the path of being a freelancer. Also, if you plan to work for a company there's a probability that you will be using Windows environment unless you persuade your employer to allow you to use Linux or you bring your own laptop. |
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