How To Land SDE Jobs Outside India

How to land SDE
Jobs Outside
India?
Tanmay Kacker
Agenda
● Interview Process
● Road Map
● Years of experience
● Compensation
● Visa
● Cost of living
Interview Process
Behavioural
Coding Interviews System Design Machine Coding
Interviews
● DSA round ● HLD discussions ● LLD ● Last round with

● Common system implementation either hiring
design questions ● In-person or home manager or HR
assignment ● Culture fit
assessment
Coding Interviews
01 Standard data structures and algorithms round. The difficulty can range from
questions like inverting a binary tree to the skyline problem using segment
trees.
02 The difficulty of the DSA rounds decreases with years of experience. Freshers
can expect harder questions compared to professional with a little more years
of experience.
03 DSA rounds tend to be harder in India when compared to companies outside

India. MAANG companies have a consistent difficulty level across geographies.
Coding Interviews: Resources
Learn Practice
● IIT - Delhi Lectures ● InterviewBit
● MIT OCW ● LeetCode

Sample System Design: Design Hotstar
Expectations from different SDE levels
SDE - 1 Come up with the schema of the various entities and list down the APIs
required. The interviewer may expect a DSA solution to a targeted problem like
searching for titles.
SDE - 2 Present design decisions like choice of the database and the architectural
overview of the application based on scale estimates and future requirements.
SDE - 3 Construct the data ingestion layer for Hotstar and pose an event driven
framework to solve various requirements. An SDE-III should also consider the
future state of the system and build something which can handle the scale a
year down the line.
System Design: Resources
Learn Practice
● ByteByteGo ● Alex Xu - An
● High Scalability insider's guide
● Educative ● System Design

Primer
● Design data
intensive
applications
Machine Coding interviews
● This is where you get your hands dirty.

● Companies either provide home assignments or
have an in-person round where you are expected to
implement a solution end to end.
● Questions can range from basic real world
examples like Design a Bird to complex technical
requirements like Design a web crawler.
● Focus is on extensibility and maintainability.
Performance or scalability is not evaluated.
Machine Coding: Resources
Free Paid
● Real World - ● Crio.do
Github
● workat.tech
● LLD primer
Behavioural Round
● AKA bar raiser round, cultural fit etc.
● Mostly, the last round of your process.
● Conducted by either hiring manager or HR.
They ask questions regarding past
experiences and roles and assess if you are a
culture fit or not.
● Gets more important with years of
experience.
● Use the STAR method to make you answers
more structured.
● Try to give some mock interviews to
friends or a third party service like Pramp
How/Where to apply?
Referrals
Job Listings portals
● Find people working at
● Linkedin your target
organisation
● AngelList ● Send them a concise
message stating your
● levels.fyi
background
● Career listings ● Ask them nicely if they
would be willing to
page of refer you
companies ● Do not spam people
and respect their
privacy
Visa Process
● To work outside India, you would require

a visa of the destination country.
● For non-US roles, this process is trivial

and is handled by your company.
● US is where things get a little

complicated.
US - Different work visas
L1 Visa H1B Visa

● You need to working in ● Requires company
the company for 1 year sponsorship.
before getting an L1 ● Visa interview followed
visa. by a lottery system
● Changing companies is ● 25% chance of you
not allowed. getting a visa
● Your spouse can get an
L2 visa
● The L-1 is initially valid
for three years.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-liv
ing/calculator.jsp
Cost of Living: Comparison
30 LPA (India) 65K Euros

(52 LPA)
● Rent - ₹40K (2BHK) ● Rent - ₹65K
● Misc. - ₹10K ● Misc. - ₹20K
● Eating out - ₹20K ● Eating out - ₹40K
● Total - ₹70K ● Total - ₹125K
● Tax - 25% - ₹62.5K ● Tax - 40% - ₹180K
● Gross savings - ₹1.2 L ● Gross savings - ₹1.5 L
Cost of living calculator

Remote Jobs
● Turing
● Toptal
● Fiverr
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How to land SDE

● DSA round ● HLD discussions ● LLD ● Last round with

03 DSA rounds tend to be harder in India when compared to companies outside

● IIT - Delhi Lectures ● InterviewBit

● MIT OCW ● LeetCode

● High Scalability insider's guide

● Educative ● System Design

● This is where you get your hands dirty.

● Real World - ● Crio.do

● To work outside India, you would require

● For non-US roles, this process is trivial

● US is where things get a little

L1 Visa H1B Visa

30 LPA (India) 65K Euros

● Rent - ₹40K (2BHK) ● Rent - ₹65K

● Misc. - ₹10K ● Misc. - ₹20K

● Eating out - ₹20K ● Eating out - ₹40K

● Total - ₹70K ● Total - ₹125K

● Tax - 25% - ₹62.5K ● Tax - 40% - ₹180K

● Gross savings - ₹1.2 L ● Gross savings - ₹1.5 L

Cost of living calculator

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