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Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by michaelchisari »

sarchertech wrote: post #13
pgeorgep wrote: post #2

I found a remote job this year on https://angel.co/ This article seems like an excellent resource, but it doesn't get into the drive you need to find a remote job (at least early in your career like me). When I started looking for remote jobs online, it took me over six months to finally land the right job. What articles like this don't emphasize enough is when you're applying for remote jobs, you're competing agains…

I've always worked remotely. You're not really competing with the entire global talent pool if you're applying for an American company. First, most companies will have a time zone limit. 2. Companies will require that you can communicate in English extremely well. 3. You need access to a reliable electric grid and reliable fast internet (the firewall rules out mainland China completely--1/5 of the world). 4. Many com…

8. You need to be able to work well remotely. This is an skill all its own that is often underestimated.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by dsego »

dep_b wrote: post #53
dsego wrote: post #19

Join toptal.

I don't get the down votes, nor the negativity in other threads about TopTal. Working for TopTal for a while now and it has been great. I can better rates elsewhere but I notice that clients are really expecting you to be good so the jobs are more interesting and/or you get more freedom. Also no hassle, every 2 weeks a payment. It's cheaper to hire me directly while I would still be getting paid more but I guess a lo…

The best part is that there is rarely a dry spell. I always find my next project within a week, or two if I'm picky.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by softawre »

davidjnelson wrote: post #67
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…

A good tactic can be to start at a remote friendly but not remote first company. To gauge this, look for employers where many employees are on site, many are remote. Work on site and do great work. After a year or so, ask for full remote. Not an instant solution, but over time can lead to the experience you need.

Great advice that has worked for me and my teammates. I have hired remote people before, and fired them all in the first year. I have two remote employees that worked in the office for a year before going remote that do great work.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by softawre »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #27
jomkr wrote: post #21

Here's what I do. Find employees using LinkedIn, find their GitHub profile and any projects they're doing that I find interesting. Create a good pull-request. After it's accepted, I send a follow-up saying I'm looking for work and asking if they'd pass on my CV. I only do PR for projects that interest me anyway, so it's not time-wasting as I'd do Open Source work anyway. This approach hasn't actually got me a remote-…

> This approach hasn't actually got me a remote-job yet

Sure - but I think it's good advice regardless.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by whipoodle »

CoreXtreme wrote: post #56

I hired 100+ senior developers at $50-70K per year for a project, mostly from East Europe/Ukraine/Russia. We were like, "Holy ! these people are so cheap. If I hire people with same level of experience locally, I would have to pay 3-5x more on average." Later, my friend took over this team of developers for his startup. What he found is that 30% developers in his team were working for two or more employers. And somet…

No such thing as a free lunch, my friend.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by Lapsa »

it's not that easy to find a good remote job. even with relatively good CV. very rewarding though. I wake up, make a cup of coffee and I'm at work. found it via twitter - made a list that followed all remote job listing twitter accounts I could find and just spammed. getting through interviewing is the hardest part.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by learc83 »

collyw wrote: post #78
sarchertech wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The Stack Overflow poll this year definitely showed a skew towards more experienced devs getting the remote work. Which would imply the competition for remote work is above average in ability.

That's not really the full picture though. A big part of the reason it's harder on average to find a remote job is because there aren't many entry level remote dev jobs.

So yes, if you look at the developer job market as a whole, finding a remote job is much harder.

However, If you aren't looking for an entry level job, the difference isn't nearly as great.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by learc83 »

vonmoltke wrote: post #44
sarchertech wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes definitely true. If there's no possibility of moving to a remote position at your current company to get started, I'd suggest trying remote contract work for a year or so.

>Non-webdev remote position pickings are rather slim.

True on average. But there are a lot of other specialties that have a high percentage of remote jobs. Most paid Linux kernel hackers work remotely IIRC.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by learc83 »

michaelchisari wrote: post #81
sarchertech wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always worked remotely. You're not really competing with the entire global talent pool if you're applying for an American company. First, most companies will have a time zone limit. 2. Companies will require that you can communicate in English extremely well. 3. You need access to a reliable electric grid and reliable fast internet (the firewall rules out mainland China completely--1/5 of the world). 4. Many com…

8. You need to be able to work well remotely. This is an skill all its own that is often underestimated.

Definitely true.

Re: How to find a remote job

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Post by derefr »

elliotec wrote: post #80

The hardest part of remote jobs is finding one that will pay even remotely (hehe) what you could make at a local company. My experience with remote interviewing culminated in getting 3 separate remote offers for anywhere between 35-60% less than my asking salary or the local offers I received. Part of this might be that my area (Salt Lake City) has particularly high engineering salaries despite what most people expec…

> The hardest part of remote jobs is finding one that will pay even remotely (hehe) what you could make at a local company.

If you live outside the US, it's the opposite: the goal is to find a job that pays a US programmer's salary, which is usually far more (yes, even outside SV) than what you could make at any "local company."

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