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Re: Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Remotely?

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Post by dhyasama »

mgrouchy wrote: post #10

Kind of off topic, but I'm curious how difficult it is to get remote (non-contract) development Jobs these days? I'm not currently on the Job market, but in a couple of years, I plan to move back to the place I was born, and there are not many, if any, great companies to work with there for a software developer. I guess what it boils down to me wondering if it is easy or hard to find remote development positions and…

I'm going to be working remotely for the next year. I currently go into the office in the morning and work from home in the afternoon. A couple weeks ago I asked my manager if I could work from New York for a year and he said sure. I've been at the same place for almost five years now, in large part because of stuff like this. They know me and trust I'll do my job. It would probably be much more difficult to get a setup like this right off the bat.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Remotely?

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Post by caseysoftware »

I've worked remotely almost exclusively for 5 years now. For a handful of projects I've gone onsite for a day or two a week but those are the exception.

The key is to build your reputation and network like crazy. Get to know everyone you can. Work to become the guy for technology X. And get out there and pitch on remote projects and ideas that you do come across. Once you knock those out of the park, word gets around, so people will start coming to you. Even you can't do the project (skills, time, etc), try to make a solid recommendation for them. You'll still score some points.

It took ~2 years for that to happen to me, but I rarely go out hunting for work now. I make my presence known regularly and the rest pretty well takes care of itself.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Remotely?

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Post by alain94040 »

mgrouchy wrote: post #10

Kind of off topic, but I'm curious how difficult it is to get remote (non-contract) development Jobs these days? I'm not currently on the Job market, but in a couple of years, I plan to move back to the place I was born, and there are not many, if any, great companies to work with there for a software developer. I guess what it boils down to me wondering if it is easy or hard to find remote development positions and…

Very easy. The trick is to become irreplaceable at your current work, and then tell them you are moving and willing to negotiate.

But if you don't follow those steps, it's very hard.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Remotely?

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

mgrouchy wrote: post #10

Kind of off topic, but I'm curious how difficult it is to get remote (non-contract) development Jobs these days? I'm not currently on the Job market, but in a couple of years, I plan to move back to the place I was born, and there are not many, if any, great companies to work with there for a software developer. I guess what it boils down to me wondering if it is easy or hard to find remote development positions and…

We do consulting on dirty programming jobs. We have more work than we can handle, all of it remote. E.g. we do much of the heavy lifting on Teamspace (see sococo.net).

It took 25 years of working in and around Silicon Valley, until we can call on lots of folks with a personal reference. That got us started, but now we (3 guys) get cold calls from time to time as well.

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