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Re: Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Remotely?

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Post by mrfish »

sunir wrote: post #26

I'm head of integrations at FreshBooks and I am looking for agencies to outsource projects to (PHP, Rails, and Python). Unfortunately, I am not looking for sole freelancers as I want the agency to manage the product management, design, implementation, testing, and validation. However, if you have a group of people you frequently work with who can cover all of that, then drop me a line. sunir freshbooks com

No offense Sunir but why would you want to outsource your projects. Your a small company in Toronto and you have plenty of talent. Either a) your looking to hire on the cheap in which case what out Freshbooks customers! or b) you can't find talent in Toronto which i can't believe is true.

Why don't you start a wing here in Vancouver and maintain your Canadian Talent?

Paul

Re: Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Remotely?

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Post by angelbob »

I work at On-Site.com and my understanding is that we're willing to hire remotely for the right candidate. The OP is probably not what we're looking for, though -- we're a JRuby on Rails and JSP shop (plus jQuery, which he does know), and we'd need somebody who knew both if they weren't going to spend time physically present (in Mountain View, CA) to get up to speed.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Remotely?

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Post by donw »

Well, if anybody is hiring remotely: I'm a sysadmin-turned-coder with around ten years of Ops experience, most of which I've spent learning how to automate things. So I'm fluent in Ruby (and Rails), JavaScript (and jQuery), as well as anything that might need to be done on a Linux box.

If it sounds like I might be able to help you out, shoot me an email: don at madwombat dot com

Re: Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Remotely?

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Post by percept »

mbrubeck wrote: post #27

Mozilla's web development team uses Python and Django, and has several remote workers. I work remotely for Mozilla; my own team has workers in Mountain View, Toronto, Seattle, Vancouver, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Paris. See http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/careers/ and you can email me (see profile) if you have any questions or want an introduction to someone.

If that doesn't work out, I know Canonical/Ubuntu used to have a similar deal, and it looks like they still do:

http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/canonical_ISDFWD/

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