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Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by sah2ed »

johan_larson wrote: post #29
jcadam wrote: post #20

Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely. I just don't know how to demonstrate to employers that I have the self-discipline to actually work if I'm not forced to go into an office full of distractions every day. In any case, after yet another round of rejections for (mostly remote) gigs, I've given up on getting out of my crappy job for t…

Couchbase is happy to hire remote workers, even without previous remote experience. I've worked for Couchbase for a year and a half now, and it's a nice place. We're a mature startup building a NoSQL database, headed for IPO soon (within a year or two). And we're hiring: https://www.couchbase.com/careers/open-positions

There's no reliable way to tell which roles permit working remotely.

For instance, this one requires being onsite: https://jobs.jobvite.com/couchbase/job/oApC4fwp

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by johan_larson »

sah2ed wrote: post #41
johan_larson wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couchbase is happy to hire remote workers, even without previous remote experience. I've worked for Couchbase for a year and a half now, and it's a nice place. We're a mature startup building a NoSQL database, headed for IPO soon (within a year or two). And we're hiring: https://www.couchbase.com/careers/open-positions

There's no reliable way to tell which roles permit working remotely. For instance, this one requires being onsite: https://jobs.jobvite.com/couchbase/job/oApC4fwp

On paper, yes. In practice, the company has a lot of distributed-work-friendly DNA from the open source movement, so I would expect the matter to be negotiable even for positions that explicitly name a work site. How negotiable? Mumble. I can say that my immediate work group has a manager and two engineers in Mountain View, and one engineer each in Denver, Toronto, and Manchester.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by vonmoltke »

sarchertech wrote: post #30
kilroy123 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree you're not competing globally as an American. However, you are competing with all developers in the US!

You're competing with all developers looking for remote work. Which isn't close to all. Then, once you have remote experience, in most cases you're really only competing with other developers who have remote experience. It's hard to get a remote job right out of college. But if you're good at your job, and have 5+ years of experience, with at least some remote experience, it's not that hard. Certainly easier than "co…

> with at least some remote experience

See, this is the problem. Many companies are open to remote workers. Few want remote virgins.

I'd also add that it's not that hard provided you are a web dev (particularly front end). Non-webdev remote position pickings are rather slim.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by blakenomad »

radarsat1 wrote: post #37

Here's a question I'm trying to understand: if I intend to travel while working, where do I say I'm "from"? How do taxes work? Suppose that I have an apartment in some country, not necessarily my country of citizenship, and I will sublet it while I travel. I suppose, to freelance, one needs to create a "company", but where is that company based? Does it need to have an address? If I am a citizen of one country, a res…

Great question.

I still run all my taxes as if I'm based in the UK, even though I travel and work remotely. I am taxed as an independent contractor.

I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though (https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/) to change where I pay my taxes.

In terms of working while in other countries, it's a grey area for sure. I was travelling extensively in Asia last year and I was on tourist visas. Although I know Thailand for example is considering introducing a 'nomad visa' very soon.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by koliber »

radarsat1 wrote: post #37

Here's a question I'm trying to understand: if I intend to travel while working, where do I say I'm "from"? How do taxes work? Suppose that I have an apartment in some country, not necessarily my country of citizenship, and I will sublet it while I travel. I suppose, to freelance, one needs to create a "company", but where is that company based? Does it need to have an address? If I am a citizen of one country, a res…

With many of these things, the answer is "it depends".

If you are interested in specific advice, please name the country where you are a citizen, where you are a resident, and where you are traveling, for how long, and on what type visa.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by jcadam »

blktiger wrote: post #40
jcadam wrote: post #20

Most of the companies I've interviewed with will only consider remote workers who have prior experience working remotely. I just don't know how to demonstrate to employers that I have the self-discipline to actually work if I'm not forced to go into an office full of distractions every day. In any case, after yet another round of rejections for (mostly remote) gigs, I've given up on getting out of my crappy job for t…

I was able to get a remote job at my current employer without any prior remote experience. As long as you are a more senior developer, it's assumed that you have the self-discipline to do good work remotely. We're currently hiring too if you have a background that fits. https://jobs.lever.co/sonatype

Are you actually hiring? I applied for a position at Sonatype (which appears to still be open) about a month ago and got an automated rejection email the same day.

No offense, but I can only assume your company is engaged in either a resume-collection exercise or some sort of purple squirrel hunt.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by stuaxo »

The salaries on upwork seem laughably low. I went travelling with the idea of maybe doing some bits like this, but it made no sense - I would have spent all my time working for very little money and no time to do what I liked.

Remote working can work if you already have a client-base, but I can't see how any of these sites are viable for someone who wants 1st world wages.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by richardknop »

From my personal experience, I got remote job offers (with competitive western salary) in two ways:

- via my network (so people/clients I have worked with before on site have approached me with extra work and new projects)

- from my open source contributions (some of my projects on github and my contributions led to me being emailed by interesting companies)

So I would forget about "looking" for remote work online. I don't think you'll randomly find anything which pays well.

What I suggest is to:

1) (if you are a consultant) build a network of clients and acquaintances by working on projects onsite. It's likely there will be more work you will get reached out to about. And then you are in position to arrange remote work as they have already worked with you and there is a trust between the two parties.

2) Contribute to open source and work on interesting projects/libraries in your free time. You never know which company will end up using your work and reach out to you with job offers. Often they will be ok with remote work too.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by jcadam »

johan_larson wrote: post #43
sah2ed wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no reliable way to tell which roles permit working remotely. For instance, this one requires being onsite: https://jobs.jobvite.com/couchbase/job/oApC4fwp

On paper, yes. In practice, the company has a lot of distributed-work-friendly DNA from the open source movement, so I would expect the matter to be negotiable even for positions that explicitly name a work site. How negotiable? Mumble. I can say that my immediate work group has a manager and two engineers in Mountain View, and one engineer each in Denver, Toronto, and Manchester.

Good to know, thanks. I've looked at Couchbase before, but when I saw locations listed for each position and no "Remote work possible" in the job description, I assumed you weren't considering remote applicants.
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