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Onlar yurt dışında yabancı bir şirket için çalışıyormuş.

Onlar yurt dışında yabancı bir şirket için çalışıyormuş.
I heard they are working for a foreign company abroad.
From Lesson 218:Reported present continuous (-Iyormuş)·Turkish

Questions & Answers about Onlar yurt dışında yabancı bir şirket için çalışıyormuş.

How does çalışıyormuş mean "I heard they are working"?
The verb çalışmak (to work) takes the present continuous suffix -ıyor (is working) followed by the inferential suffix -muş (I heard/apparently). Together, -ıyormuş means you are reporting an ongoing action that you heard from someone else, rather than seeing it yourself.
Why isn't there a plural suffix on çalışıyormuş since the subject is Onlar (they)?
In Turkish, when a human plural subject is explicitly stated with a pronoun like Onlar, the plural suffix -lar on the verb is optional. You could say çalışıyormuşlar, but leaving it as çalışıyormuş is perfectly natural and very common.
Can you break down how yurt dışında means "abroad"?
It comes from yurt (homeland/country) and dış (outside). When combined into a noun compound, it gets a possessive suffix to become yurt dışı (the outside of the country). Finally, we add the locative case suffix -nda (in/at), making yurt dışında literally mean "in the outside of the country".
Why is the word order yabancı bir şirket instead of bir yabancı şirket?
In Turkish, when a noun has both a descriptive adjective like yabancı (foreign) and the indefinite article bir (a/an), the adjective almost always comes first. The standard order is Adjective + bir + Noun.

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