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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by jemfinch »

rarrrrrr wrote: post #2

Americas and Europe (remote): SpiderOak is looking for help in engineering, marketing, and customer service. Since 2006, SpiderOak provides an easy, consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with a zero-knowledge approach to customer privacy. We use Python, Django, web.py, WSGI, jQuery, PostgreSQL, nginx, and varnish, with some occasional heavy-lifting…

> As such, we don't care about formal education, age, gender

Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but you may not want to list "age" and "gender" unless you're listing all the protected classes that you can't legally care about.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by pudo »

Europe (remote): The Open Knowledge Foundation is looking for Python Coders.

OKFN (http://okfn.org) is a non-profit organization promoting open knowledge: any kind of information – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed.

In particular we're working on an open source data catalogue, CKAN (http://ckan.net) which is used by various governments (including the UK's http://data.gov.uk) as an open data registry. Other projects include WhereDoesMyMoneyGo.org, an interactive state spending visualization site, OpenShakespeare.org, WeavingHistory.org and many other sites.

Most of our projects are based on Python, Pylons, SQLAlchemy (although we're looking to go NoSQL mid-term). We also look for people who are good at JavaScript, in particular Protovis and other visualization toolkits.

If you're interested, ping me at friedrich.lindenberg@....org

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by alnayyir »

drwxrwxrwt wrote: post #23
alnayyir wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My resume is a website/page, how exactly do I submit that in this resumator thing? Reformatting a website as DOC/DOCX/PDF is a bit absurd.

you can probably just send a link in a cover letter

No, no you can't. It requires an upload of a PDF/DOC/DOCX in order to submit the form.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by mike-cardwell »

alnayyir wrote: post #33
drwxrwxrwt wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can probably just send a link in a cover letter

No, no you can't. It requires an upload of a PDF/DOC/DOCX in order to submit the form.

Just an idea, but you'll probably find your time better spent building and submitting a doc, than complaining to your potential future employer.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by alnayyir »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #35
alnayyir wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, no you can't. It requires an upload of a PDF/DOC/DOCX in order to submit the form.

Just an idea, but you'll probably find your time better spent building and submitting a doc, than complaining to your potential future employer.

An employer that only accepts word and PDF documents for my 'resume' isn't one I want to work for. You'd think that'd be clear from my displeasure with their rather factory-oriented submission process.

I'm not in need of a job right now, I am poking around because I'd like to have some side work for when I leave the country. Not mandatory by any means.

Just an idea, but you may want to get off your high horse and go do something useful other than criticizing people trying to discuss something.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by epoxyhockey »

alnayyir wrote: post #20
kemayo wrote: post #13

deviantART! We're looking for senior (team-lead) and regular developers. It's a PHP job, and we exclusively hire remote workers. We have about 16 developers at the moment, but we're expanding because we have a lot of projects on the backburner that we'd like to get started on. We only hire people who can do everything. You have to be able to write backend PHP code, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and SQL. We don't want to have…

My resume is a website/page, how exactly do I submit that in this resumator thing? Reformatting a website as DOC/DOCX/PDF is a bit absurd.

Honestly speaking, if you are getting hung up on a problem as simple as this and can't seem to find a creative solution, YC may not be the best place to look for jobs.

I know this sounds harsh, but I really feel compelled to type it.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by vgurgov »

My just launched startup - videolla.com is looking for remote sales/marketing/blogger/biz dev/everything. Basically its a small gig, but if this idea proves itself might turn into full-time something. Might be great for intern/student/part-time. Small salary + commission + bonuses. Email vlad /a/ videolla.com

Extra bonus ifyou can code on Rails

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

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Post by mike-cardwell »

alnayyir wrote: post #36
mike-cardwell wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just an idea, but you'll probably find your time better spent building and submitting a doc, than complaining to your potential future employer.

An employer that only accepts word and PDF documents for my 'resume' isn't one I want to work for. You'd think that'd be clear from my displeasure with their rather factory-oriented submission process. I'm not in need of a job right now, I am poking around because I'd like to have some side work for when I leave the country. Not mandatory by any means. Just an idea, but you may want to get off your high horse and go…

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