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engageSPARK | React JS UI | REMOTE ONLY (UTC-1 to +10) | 4dww full time | engagespark.com We're a small team building a communication app for NGOs and universities. These organizat…

> choose and implement and couple enhancements to a toy app I think this is a key piece why this kind of project is useful, because that's exactly what they'd do when they start in…

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Would love to have a manager-mentor like that. :)

Looking at the responses here … it's not about “1:1s are basics, if you don't do them you are a failed manager.” Nor do I believe the truth is best described as: “a 1:1 is a creepy…

Ah, my point with the internet example wasn't the missing internet itself. In an office, someone will fix it if the internet is down. That's why you have an office: to outsource in…

Curious, with GH notifs and Q&A in Slack, with demos at sprent end and probably an online scrum board…do you really still need a stand up to know what the others are up to? Or is i…

Curious, how do you know that lack of trust is the reason? I mean, they wouldn't tell you, right? Maybe it's something simpler like, salaries, timezone, ...?

Curious—didn't that go fairly well? You noticed that the one thing that matters—outcomes—wasn't there, and you ended it. If that person had been co-located, they'd have pretended t…

Not too sure. You'll likely find stuff for PHP, but a bunch of meetups have gone dormant AFAIK. High paying jobs here are scarce if they exist at all, probably same as when you lef…

There is an app for that. ;) We use BoardGameArena. They bring boardgames beautifully online. I'm paying for a pro account so I can create private games, $5/mo. Worth it. https://e…

Well, we're a remote team. ;) Incidentally, I'm still in Cebu, but it wouldn't matter where you are.

Hm, some of those points I've experienced, too, or make sense to me. 3: You mean “professionally lonely” as not physically meeting enough other, say, devs? Why can't you get your t…

Did they prefer the huge company because of perks/salaries/tech, or actually because of being office-based? If remote, what was their #1 issue?

We had a colocated team in Cebu, Philippines. Turns out, not too many Go devs in Cebu, so went remote. Now UTC+1 to UTC+8. Bigger challenges: - the utter unfairness that some peopl…

We have a Slack channel for that. But what really works: round-based boardgames. So we play that once a week, instead of / as our weekly meeting. Leaves plenty of room to chat abou…

Can be fast, too. I once interviewed an Indian dev who was telling me that in his remote startup, they grew so quickly to 200+ people that management got overwhelmed and figured th…

It doesn't have to be a rare disease—it can just mean that non-basic healthcare is hard to access. Example: I live in the Philippines. Its healthcare system is affected by two thin…

When we hire I am worried about these things, in no particular order: 1) Can't communicate. Particularly in written form. Should be easy to show/confirm, but still. Why it matters?…

engageSPARK | Cebu, Philippines | ONSITE, REMOTE, FULLTIME, VISA, Code4Good https://www.engageSPARK.com engageSPARK, a social enterprise, is the world's EASIEST Platform that empow…

engageSPARK | Cebu, Philippines | ONSITE, REMOTE, FULLTIME, VISA, Code4Good https://www.engageSPARK.com engageSPARK, a social enterprise, is the world's EASIEST Platform that empow…

For anyone caring to get out of the echo chamber and near, unfortunately not onto the beach, join us at engageSPARK in Cebu, Philippines. :) https://www.engagespark.com/careers Mig…

engageSPARK | Cebu, Philippines | ONSITE, REMOTE, FULLTIME, VISA, Code4Good https://www.engageSPARK.com engageSPARK, a social enterprise, is the world's EASIEST Platform that empow…

engageSPARK | Cebu, Philippines | ONSITE, REMOTE, FULLTIME, VISA, Code4Good https://www.engageSPARK.com engageSPARK, a social enterprise, is the world's EASIEST Platform that empow…

How would you migrate a team from local-only, to many remote team members? I've every intention to get there, but could use some advice. Steps I'm doing to test/prepare/do the cult…