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Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by charlieyu1 »

busterarm wrote: post #34

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 work for myself and I feel this is quite different. Freelancing, the client finding you already has some interest, and you don’t really compete with others. A freelancing interview is more about sorting out the details, making sure both sides want to go through etc, rather than trying to impress the client.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by atom-morgan »

switz wrote: post #31

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.

Are the projects all development related?

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by rofo1 »

switz wrote: post #31

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.

Haha, I am global / ~3000 ELO Faceit player, curious what do you do with regards to CS?

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by MAMAMassakali »

switz wrote: post #31

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.

Do you have any work for iOS?

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by spapas82 »

kidgorgeous wrote: post #2

Upwork. Just spend an hour a day submitting proposals, and you'll be drowning in offers at the end of the month

Is it possible to get paid in cryptocurrency in Upwork? If not does anybody know of a platform that would allow that? Register using stunt crypto wallet, do the job, get paid in your wallet.

I'd really like to avoid all the bureaucracy of banks, government etc for my side projects.

Ty

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by tepitoperrito »

Build a profile that says as much on Hired.com and see who reaches out. So far a handful of companies that fit this bill pretty closely have shown up that I don't think I'd have found otherwise. It couldn't hurt and I'll be watching this thread closely for tips because while I don't mind interviews/ritual I just love small B2B shops.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by [deleted] »

busterarm wrote: post #34

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…

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Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by carlmr »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #39
busterarm wrote: post #34

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…

From the description, it would probably be a better fit to work as a contractor via an agency. You get the hit of the agency comission but at least most of the talking will be through some Project manager assigned to the client.

That hit in commission can be very efficient, since you save a lot of time you can bill at a high rate.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?

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Post by lowercased »

jmconfuzeus wrote: post #40

You can try Toptal. I heard good things about them but haven't got in myself because they require leetcode puzzles which I suck at atm.

I just had a short interview the other day with 2 folks. Screensharing, we went through the first 'problem'. They gave me some SQL tables with dummy data, and asked for some data/queries.

"How would you get X?" "How would you get all X who are not retired?" etc

After 3 questions, the guy stopped and said "no one has ever gotten this far this quickly before - I don't have any other prepared questions right now. Let's try one more..."

That one took another 10 minutes - I sort of 'knew' it but... doing 'live' pairing being on display adds a bit of nerves, and... I just need to hammer through multiple trials. Felt awkward, but got there after a bit of time.

Then... person 2. "Leetcode" exercise... I reviewed it again a bit later, and one of the things that tripped me up is that the description and the expected 'sample in/out' answers were in conflict. At best, the description was ambiguous, but to my reading was in contradiction to one of the expected answers.

I struggled 20 minutes in front of them... and we were out of time. The question was (to my reading) relatively abstract and doesn't map to any of the sorts of problems I've tackled over the past 20 years in development.

They thanked me and closed the interview. I wrestled with the leetcode for another 30 min or so later that evening and 'got it', but... annoying.

I reply with this partially to say "you may never get better at the leetcode stuff" but don't let that get you too down. :)

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