![[OC] My 3 month job search as an Engineer in a large city in Mexico, looking for a (relatively) good white-collar job](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/6eur73okgycf1-1536x448.png "[OC] My 3 month job search as an Engineer in a large city in Mexico, looking for a (relatively) good white-collar job")
Key Takeways:
- I'm really happy with the job I got
- One of the other offers had a bit of a higher salary but was definitely going to be much more stressful so I don't regret not accepting it.
- I've got 5+ years of experience, I'm a professional trilingual and my english is definitely in the top 1%
- Total annual compensation is between 27k-30k USD depending on my bonus, which is very good for the local market.
- F that company that ghosted me after 3 assessments and 3 interviews lol
Posted by meserodatos
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What kind of engineer?
Congrats on the job! I like that you included the “got feedback”. Can be pretty rare
9+ years of experience in Guadalajara, took me about 250~ to change jobs as a SWE. Market is not that kind anymore, but is still possible to find good jobs.
Everytime one of these is posted i’m so glad that I didn’t go into engineering or compsci
What field in engineering specifically is this, if you don’t mind me asking?