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remotemore is a "palindrome" if we group the letters 2-by-2: re-mo-te-mo-re (I guess this is on purpose)
But most of all, it shows what we stand for: More Remote work :-)
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I agree completely - people are unfortunately biased. But the candidate will go to interview with the hiring manager at some point, this cannot be avoided. Then it is in the best interest of everyone to get those things out of the way as early as possible. It's also a cultural thing, I believe. I have lived in Denmark the past ~10 years, and in Denmark the human part is very important for building trust - seeing the…
Great feedback, thank you, @codingdave! It is the first time I hear about someone being hired without meeting their manager. Do others have the same experience? Please let me know!
I had three interviews, four if you include the chat with the in-house recruiter I started with. The first of the three formal interviews was the hiring manager, by phone. Second was in-person, with a future (possible) colleague. The third was with the manager's own boss, Director in this case, again by phone.
It all went well enough apparently, though have met many of my colleagues in person since then. As a rule though, I'm remote by default. It's all online chat, conference calls, screen shares and so on.
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communication is a huge issue. i was working in one team where everything was fine while i was in the office. as soon as i moved away i was cut off from all decisions because the rest of the team was so used to do things through local in-office chats instead of online. in another company all our communication was online, and it didn't matter if someone was in the office or not.
I would say that the success in remote work is 60% the company/manager, and 40% the developer. You need okay level on both sides. Otherwise, the collaboration breaks down within 2-3 months.
so how do you vet companies against this?
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Currently, we have a call with the companies to see if they are serious about their position - e.g. what's their budget. We will require the companies also to have profiles, in which they answer to things such as development methodology, how many people in the company work remotely, do they offer flexible working hours etc.
what about part-time work? one of the reasons i like remote work is because i have a family to care for, and working 40 hours wouldn't leave me enough time for that.
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I would say that the success in remote work is 60% the company/manager, and 40% the developer. You need okay level on both sides. Otherwise, the collaboration breaks down within 2-3 months.
right, and since the company is the one in control, having a bad manager usually means the remote employee is the one suffering the consequences. from getting fired all the way to having to fight to get paid at all... so how do you vet companies against this?
We also follow up with the companies and the people they have hired to check if everything is going well.
So far, we haven't had problems. We will introduce company profiles soon, with remote info about the companies (e.g. how many remote vs. non-remote people work). We will probably also introduce some free built-in insurance for both parties as we scale.
"Pass our screening" -- I both like this, and do not like it. While I agree that not everyone is made for remote work, most of the skills to communicate and work effectively when remote can be taught. So what are you screening for? The underlying personality traits that make or break working remotely? Or the learn-able skills? Also, while not as important, it is worth noting -- for people like myself who have been wo…
We have a total of 30 remote workers in our company screen sharing etc daily. We also have a policy of not using cameras and not sharing faces by default. Some people like that for privacy reasons and most people turn off video to save bandwidth and screen real estate. Showing you face is a nice to have but if you’re doing technical work it’s far in the list of priorities
With the rest of my team, we do daily stand-up on a video call - just to know each other more, and to understand each other better. Probably we will switch to fewer video calls as the team becomes more mature (e.g. once a week).
If others have feedback on this topic, it would be helpful to read it.
I've been working remotely for past few years and have been a team lead before and now am a consulting senior dev. But I would like to move into a leadership role such as management or even directorial. Are those available remotely?
The companies that are very early on their remote capabilities typically avoid hiring remote juniors, and remote higher-level management positions. The reason is that those levels require communication with more stakeholders which means more mature remote practices. Project management type of positions are typically not too difficult to have remote.
"Pass our screening" -- I both like this, and do not like it. While I agree that not everyone is made for remote work, most of the skills to communicate and work effectively when remote can be taught. So what are you screening for? The underlying personality traits that make or break working remotely? Or the learn-able skills? Also, while not as important, it is worth noting -- for people like myself who have been wo…
"and ask you to submit a short video to ensure that you have good fit with working remotely." I don't have a lot of confidence in the measurement of having 'a good fit'
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OP agrees :D I've been working 4 years remotely and I wouldn't go switch to on site. We are building our company as a fully remote company.
I worked for 7+ years remotely and turned down Google/Facebook/Uber/Amazon/Netflix because they wanted me to move. I'd rather spend two months on Hawaii than in some "cool open-plan office", distracted to death, getting sick around influenza periods and wasting time commuting in the process.
That said, you’re away from coworkers with kids. That’s the sickness that doesn’t help immunity. But once you have a kid of your own, all that worry goes out the window. Don’t mean to be a party pooper, but its all reality out here
*also how does this remotemore site compare to triplebyte?