I've never thought about requesting to be transferred as a contractor. That would mean I would have to pay my own taxes as in the self-employment situation.
As was the case for my termination a few months ago, I actually WAS working as a contractor, so that's not 100% foolproof.
I actually just recently heard about a guy who moved here. He told his boss, and his boss's boss, who were both fine with it. Then when he told HR they were like "no way, dude." But then both bosses told him "just tell HR you're moving to Florida." LOL!
Y'konw, honestly, the time-zone thing I understand. If you're looking for people to cover specific shift work for incoming tickets or events or whatever, that makes sense. Just like on-prem jobs.
But I'm talking about totally asynchronous work that's just an assignment given to you, and you turn it in completed later.
I use https://travelingmailbox.com. They're great. Not super modern and hip, but certainly functional and affordable.
My employer doesn't have to pay Mexican taxes. I don't even have to pay Mexican taxes. They do US taxes just like for everybody else because my bank account is in the States and I'm an American.
I use Skype and Google Voice. I can give out a US phone number and receive calls just as though I were in the US.
That's not actually true in my situation. My visa requires that I not hold a Mexican job. As long as I hold a job in another country and pay taxes in that country, I owe zero taxes to the Mexican government.
This sounds like a brilliant idea, but if any recruiter ever found the text, it might be a red flag for the employer. Have you ever had it come up in an interview process?
TL; DR is basically you keep a decision tree in parallel to your model that carries with it long/short-form text that "explains" why the model does what it does.
They're really strong on language-agnostic testing with emphasis on CS concepts. That's great and typical, but they have the study material linked directly to each lesson. I've had great interview experiences through their platform.
(shameless plug warning) I liked it enough that when I went through Flatiron School, I made a Ruby gem to see their lessons in the command line.
https://rubygems.org/gems/rubedility
As was the case for my termination a few months ago, I actually WAS working as a contractor, so that's not 100% foolproof.
I actually just recently heard about a guy who moved here. He told his boss, and his boss's boss, who were both fine with it. Then when he told HR they were like "no way, dude." But then both bosses told him "just tell HR you're moving to Florida." LOL!