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Re: Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?

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Post by amalrik_maia »

spraak wrote: post #6
rrherr wrote: post #3

https://remoteok.io/

I don't really like this site and others like it. I could be wrong, but it appears to be an automated scraper of real managed content like https://weworkremotely.com/ which is what I'd recommend and found my first remote position through

this https://weworkremotely.com/ is really interesting but I notice a lot of jobs require the candidate to be an US resident, that doesn't make any sense to me.

Re: Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?

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Post by spraak »

amalrik_maia wrote: post #12
spraak wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really like this site and others like it. I could be wrong, but it appears to be an automated scraper of real managed content like https://weworkremotely.com/ which is what I'd recommend and found my first remote position through

this https://weworkremotely.com/ is really interesting but I notice a lot of jobs require the candidate to be an US resident, that doesn't make any sense to me.

Well, it's usually due to taxes. The company I work for hires people from other countries officially as contractors, otherwise they would need to maintain a legal presence in every country that they hire in - or so I'm told.

Re: Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?

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Post by amalrik_maia »

spraak wrote: post #13
amalrik_maia wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this https://weworkremotely.com/ is really interesting but I notice a lot of jobs require the candidate to be an US resident, that doesn't make any sense to me.

Well, it's usually due to taxes. The company I work for hires people from other countries officially as contractors, otherwise they would need to maintain a legal presence in every country that they hire in - or so I'm told.

tks @spraak for clarifying.

Re: Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?

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Post by sytse »

spraak wrote: post #13
amalrik_maia wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this https://weworkremotely.com/ is really interesting but I notice a lot of jobs require the candidate to be an US resident, that doesn't make any sense to me.

Well, it's usually due to taxes. The company I work for hires people from other countries officially as contractors, otherwise they would need to maintain a legal presence in every country that they hire in - or so I'm told.

Yes, this is a difficult issue. At GitLab we have people in more than 30 countries. In the majority of countries we have contractors, in some (US/NL/UK) we have a company, in some we hire through a reseller (India/China), and in Belgium we can hire on the Dutch payroll due to the EU. I hope someone starts the Stripe/Adyen for payrolling people. If you plan to do so please email me so I can help with advise and be your first customer and investor.

EDIT I made a blog post about this https://gitlab.com/sytses/sytses.gitlab.io/commit/e9a000d321...

Re: Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?

#18

Post by mhd »

spraak wrote: post #6
rrherr wrote: post #3

https://remoteok.io/

I don't really like this site and others like it. I could be wrong, but it appears to be an automated scraper of real managed content like https://weworkremotely.com/ which is what I'd recommend and found my first remote position through

68 programming jobs ain't a lot, though.

Re: Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?

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Post by chrisguitarguy »

calcsam wrote: post #4

An old colleague of mine, who'd worked for an LA-based tech company for 10 years, went to hand in his resignation. He was moving to Charlotte so he could be with his girlfriend. His boss begged him to stay -- he could even work remotely. My friend took the deal. He lives in Charlotte now and flies to LA every 2 or 3 months. The best place to look for remote jobs is to talk to people who have worked with you in the pa…

This is how I came to work remotely. When my wife and I had to move for her job, I had built quite a bit of the software my company relied on. Had leverage to go remote and the trust of my boss to do so.
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