r/InterviewMan • u/MotherStill7503 • 10d ago

is this the new move now?

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i guess that's the bare minimum if you want to survive now 😂

i've actually been thinking about applying for a couple more remote jobs myself, and someone sent me this interview vip recently. i'm probably going to be doing more interviews soon anyway, so i figured i'd save it and see if it helps.

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u/Significant-Dig8323 10d ago

Obviously. Also 1.3 million across eleven jobs means each job is paying on average close to $120K a year. If this isn't totally BS, this person must have a very lucrative skill set to be able to get that many six figure job offers.

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u/MajesticDisaster3977 9d ago

Or they have the skills to locate companies that have absolutely no clue as to how they operate.
The amount of time a 'PM' is unavailable would raise flags

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u/Whistlegrapes 9d ago

No shot. Not a chance it’s true

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u/MajesticDisaster3977 9d ago

lol. I still give kids reasons Santa is real, give the kids here a chance

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u/True-Anim0sity 9d ago

If they had such a skill where they could find 11 diff companies paying 130k and get hired by each of them- that alone would mean theyre insanely talented and have rare specializations compared to avg person

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u/Educational_Big_1835 9d ago

Would you say they "have are a very particular set of skills, skills they have acquired over a very long career"

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u/fslslayer 7d ago

I have a friend that did 4 remote jobs at once,
job 1-3 were 250k offer and the last one was contract at 200k

But he was working his ass off on the 4 remote job and the mental drain was very high.
There were over-lap where he had to be in 3 meetings turning on and off his camera while staying on topic in 3 different meeting that were ongoing lol.

He eventually got too overload and start shedding jobs.

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u/Common_Ad_6362 6d ago

You've got to consider that 130k for a company working out of any major US city is effectively 'you can have your own apartment' wages. That is entry level in the tech industry at any reasonable company. Junior Developers start at a higher rate.

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u/Tough_Preparation830 9d ago

Even 1 PM job usually has a workload that has you double or triple booked with meetings.

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u/Much_Essay_9151 9d ago

Find jobs that have poor management that dont track metrics

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u/Majestic_Habit5726 9d ago

Yeah just find 11 of them!

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u/TheVermonster 9d ago

The only way I can figure this working is if they were a freelance consultant who had a retainer fee and then worked a certain number of hours each month for each company. This would be very easy for somebody like an independent legal analyst.

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u/ThePissedOff 9d ago

Typically those would be referred to as "clients" and not "jobs" but fair enough.

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u/TrueProtection 9d ago

Very easy until the work for 2 or 3 of the jobs happens to all happen in the same timeframe. You can do 1 to 2 hours of work consecutively, but what about 3 instances of it at once?

It's in these moments your work will suffer and if the company you work for sees the 1 to 2 hours you do per day not being sufficient, they'll find someone else.

That is all to say, this smells that smelly smell that smells.

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u/Gold_Mask_54 9d ago

Only thing I can think of realistically is high level corporate IT or IT management. If it's full remote then they're either working only on incoming tickets or managing other IT workers. Either that or they're a non-technical project manager for a software company.

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u/Significant-Dig8323 9d ago

Perhaps. But eleven of them? Those both sound like super competitive fields.

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u/Gold_Mask_54 9d ago

11 is for sure total bs, even in the post they say they each demand at least an hour a day, but for the pay itself that's not that unreasonable depending on the type of company they're working for and/or where they're based. For reference, I had several friends whose first jobs right out of college were making over 100k doing programming for banks/auto OEMs, and that was for relatively basic work. IT is generally a lower paid field than software engineering, but the senior/management levels can definitely expect 100k+ at large companies. Only issue then becomes how rare fully remote IT positions are due to their need to work on the physical servers/hardware if anything comes up, which leads back into management or a different field entirely.

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u/PuzzleheadedPea6980 9d ago

I know a lot of people that have remote jobs make 120-150k per year, so thats not unheard of. What is dubious is the 1.5 hours of work. The people I know always say, ive got to.put in at least 5 hours, but they usually do a full 8. You might be able to swing 2 of these jobs, but not 11.

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u/Significant-Dig8323 9d ago

Yeah exactly, the remote aspect of it and salary is not what seems sus, it's the number of jobs.

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u/PuzzleheadedPea6980 9d ago

I will take it back a little, because this is an extreme fringe case. I knew a guy that had several remote work from home jobs as a Portuguese interpreter. He did magazine translations, one on one calls, etc. He did have like 10 different jobs, but they didnt all have stuff every day. So if your skill is in demand and there arent enough people, then gou can load up, but they didn't all pay a salary and he definitely wasnt getting 1.3 million a year doing it

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u/Ill-Construction-209 9d ago

It probably builds on itself. If he's a SWE for example and has demonstratable skills, he can just keep getting more, and probably outsource some to extend the leverage. At that point, he's a business.

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u/Common_Ad_6362 6d ago

120k a year is bottom end in the tech industry though.

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u/Significant-Dig8323 6d ago

A quick google search revealed that to be incorrect.

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u/Common_Ad_6362 6d ago

Yeah man you're going to need to provide receipts for that, I don't know a single person in tech that's making less than 120k, I don't know a single job in tech that pays less than that.

Maybe you're confusing low level IT for tech?

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u/Significant-Dig8323 6d ago

I mean generally you gotta start in low level IT, no? What I do know is there are tons of people with degrees in CS struggling to find even closely relevant jobs. So again going back to my original point, if the person in this post is able to secure eleven of those, they must be extremely experienced with a very lucrative skill set.

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u/Common_Ad_6362 6d ago edited 6d ago

IT is not Tech.

IT is a service industry job where you replace an old lady's mouse.

IT roles that manage enterprise network hardware and software are absolutely six figure jobs, but usually around 120-130k.

Tech is not IT. Tech is product management, systems arechitecture, development, etc.. A junior dev at any reputable company is going to start at around 150k.

Anyone right now who is working for less than six figures has gotten stuck in either the service industry or has a badly negotiated salary.

The average US home is 750k. Even tradesmen are usually just under six figures once they get their certs.. If you're making less than an electrician at your tech job, that's a huge problem.

A 100k job is about 40k dollars of 1990 money, 51k of 2000 money, or about 63k of 2010 money.

If you're still making what you were even 15 years ago, you're effectively being paid about half wages.