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Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by V-2 »

throw31337 wrote: post #7
anc84 wrote: post #5

Is this question some cynic attempt to see what keywords are going to be upvoted? What does "remote" even mean here? A ukranian remotely working for a US company? A brit remotely working for a chinese one? Why would there be a difference in stack just because someone is not working in-office but from somewhere else? The stack much rather depends on the field of work, the technology involved and maybe the location of…

No, this is a very legitimate question. I am an Eastern European and having spent 7 years in UK (and last two in London) I realized that all I do here is bleed huge amounts of money for rent. I want to get a remote job and move back to my homeland. This is all about maximizing my chances of getting such a job, because I understand that remote is rather competitive market with developers from developing countries knoc…

As long as you're already in London, I suppose the best way would be to start working for a company on-site and then make an arrangement to continue the collaboration remotely (assuming they do remote at all). It's always better if someone gets to know you face to face first.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by ateevchopra »

gregjor wrote: post #10

I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site. If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ev…

  Technologies come and go, and over-specialized programmers go with them.
True !

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by atemerev »

From my experience (working 100% remotely for some years), I'd say that the sweet point lies in relatively "exotic" stacks, like Scala, Erlang, maybe even Rust.

It's not that there are more remote jobs in Scala than in Javascript. However, people who hire Scala developers seem to accept that when you need a top Scala team, you have to bring people from all over the world, i.e. they are fully committed to building a great fully remote team, not bringing remote developers as an afterthought (in general, you wouldn't want to take a role of remote engineer in a mostly non-remote team, especially if you are one of the first ones).

And Python/Javascript developers are dime a dozen (maybe not, they are still expensive, but much more numerous, and usually there isn't a problem to hire locally).

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by evgen »

atemerev wrote: post #13

From my experience (working 100% remotely for some years), I'd say that the sweet point lies in relatively "exotic" stacks, like Scala, Erlang, maybe even Rust. It's not that there are more remote jobs in Scala than in Javascript. However, people who hire Scala developers seem to accept that when you need a top Scala team, you have to bring people from all over the world, i.e. they are fully committed to building a g…

I would definitely agree that you best option is to pick a stack that is popular enough to have a bit of traction but one where knowledgeable practitioners are rare enough that a company would consider finding someone who knows that stack compensate for the perceived downsides of a remote worker. I would probably replace Erlang with Elixir/Phoenix on that list, you are likely to find more open positions and the latter will imply web work that is more amenable to a remote coder.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by anondon »

gregjor wrote: post #10

I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site. If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ev…

> Technologies come and go, and over-specialized programmers go with them.

Not really, programmers adapt to the changing tech landscape.

Technologies/languages keep changing, but programmers can always switch to more relevant languages if required, and that's what happens.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by throw31337 »

gregjor wrote: post #10

I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site. If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ev…

Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough - this is all about the practicality of starting remoting. I agree with your point of solving business problems - that is obvious and I am a quite a generalist (with certain preferences) when it comes to tech. I am just trying to be realistic here - I don't find it easy to find a job on site and my guess is finding a remote one is way more difficult with all the devs around the world from developing countries knocking down salaries. I thought most companies tend to hire with focus on certain experience?

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by gregjor »

anondon wrote: post #17
gregjor wrote: post #10

I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site. If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ev…

> Technologies come and go, and over-specialized programmers go with them. Not really, programmers adapt to the changing tech landscape. Technologies/languages keep changing, but programmers can always switch to more relevant languages if required, and that's what happens.

Note that I wrote "over-specialized programmers." Yes, we adapt. I've adapted for 35 years. I've also seen programmers left with few options when the landscape changes.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by sonofgod »

throw31337 wrote: post #8
alpeb wrote: post #4

I work with Scala remotely, and we're hiring! (send me a PM).

You don't have your contact info on your profile.

They're likely to also be https://github.com/alpeb who also works with Scala and there are contact details there.
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