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It’s a weird prerequisite, but without it there generally isn’t enough context to do meaningful work sans a lot of hand holding.
I've used a recruiting company https://www.facet.net/ that also handles contract work, and works with a lot of startups. They can add you to a mailing list to send you opportunities that match your criteria.
If you have any experience with the game Counterstrike, reach out to me. Email is in my profile. I run a small, bootstrapped B2C business and have a number of interesting projects I could hand off to people. It’s a weird prerequisite, but without it there generally isn’t enough context to do meaningful work sans a lot of hand holding.
When you're freelancing you're essentially interviewing for your job every single minute you're in front of or have an active project with the client. Soft skills and doing work that has nothing to do with engineering is even more of a requirement.
If you have any experience with the game Counterstrike, reach out to me. Email is in my profile. I run a small, bootstrapped B2C business and have a number of interesting projects I could hand off to people. It’s a weird prerequisite, but without it there generally isn’t enough context to do meaningful work sans a lot of hand holding.
How many hours should I play before reaching out? I'm only sort of kidding.
If you dislike going through interviews, I'm not sure that freelance work or going into business for yourself (which is the normal model for this kind of thing) is really the right answer. When you're freelancing you're essentially interviewing for your job every single minute you're in front of or have an active project with the client. Soft skills and doing work that has nothing to do with engineering is even more…
There is one significant difference. In this perpetual interview, you have access to the internet and can find factual answers from there.
The problem solving part is what makes someone a good engineer/scientist. Not knowing particular algorithms, or knowing formulas (in case of DL jobs).
Interviews focus on the wrong things.
I am okay with the perpetual interview as long as I don't have to rote memorize a bunch of stuff like some poor middle-schoolers in 1970s communist country.
I threw away many recruiters who even mentioned technical interviews. I am doing more than okay financially and career-wise, btw.
This might change in the future just as a step to do something I want to do. I will hate all the interview, HR initiation, onboarding, etc. forever.
Upwork. Just spend an hour a day submitting proposals, and you'll be drowning in offers at the end of the month
I used to be a top rated developer on upwork even before they renamed upwork from Odesk. I stopped using them since 3 years ago and I would suggest you to keep away from it since the platform has become very predatory over the years. You need to pay upwork continuously to be able to bid on jobs and you can pay even more to see other people's bids. It has become sort of pay to play scheme. For example, they advertise…
It sounds like you're looking for freelance work? In my experience as a python/full stack freelancer, you're best off starting with a full time and then reducing your hours per week after getting familiar with the project. I've done this several times, either because the project went in to more of a maintenance phase, or at my request (normally to spend more time on a side project).
If you dislike going through interviews, I'm not sure that freelance work or going into business for yourself (which is the normal model for this kind of thing) is really the right answer. When you're freelancing you're essentially interviewing for your job every single minute you're in front of or have an active project with the client. Soft skills and doing work that has nothing to do with engineering is even more…
I heard good things about them but haven't got in myself because they require leetcode puzzles which I suck at atm.