Ask HN: Is it possible to find remote job on C/C++? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to find remote job on C/C++?

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Post by 72deluxe » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 4:12 PM UTC

72deluxe wrote: post #11

I too wonder this. I write C++ for my dayjob and use wxWidgets under Windows and OSX but have used Qt a long time ago, as well as VCL and MFC. I would prefer to avoid MFC and VCL nowadays! I can also write Java (done that for Android), various bits of SQL (used PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL and Informix), C# where necessary and PHP/JavaScript/HTML but would prefer sticking to C++ nowadays instead of front-end web stuff.…

Replying as too late to edit: this wasn't meant as a hijacking of the thread but it could have been better-worded. Apologies.

Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to find remote job on C/C++?

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Post by zura » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

dblohm7 wrote: post #42

bugmen0t wrote: post #35

Mozilla allows almost every job to be remote and Firefox is written in C/C++. I'm sure there must be other companies :)

Remote Mozillian here: can confirm!

But not in every country. HR told me that Mozilla can't hire in Georgia (the country in Europe). She contacted me because she initially thought I'm from US state Georgia...

Re: Ask HN: Is it possible to find remote job on C/C++?

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Post by unusximmortalis » Thu, Nov 26, 2015, 10:10 PM UTC

gamesbrainiac wrote: post #16

You can find plenty of them over at careers.stackoverflow.com. I'm not saying this to evangelize them, but see this link: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=c%2B%2B&job... There are plenty of them available and most pay on an international level. Not the kind of rubbish pay that freelancing sites offer. Since you have some experience with Python and Node, you'll see that you're good for a lot of jobs ov…

I see a flood of positions published by Crossover lately on the remote job panels. Can anyone share hers/his experience interviewing/working for Crossover? thank you