1900 sounds like a lot, but it very quickly narrows. There are only 5 or so companies listed for programming jobs at non-consultancies (i.e. companies that develop their own products) that offer paid time off. None of those 5 look that interesting...
Show HN: I made a database of remote companies
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#231900 sounds like a lot, but it very quickly narrows. There are only 5 or so companies listed for programming jobs at non-consultancies (i.e. companies that develop their own products) that offer paid time off. None of those 5 look that interesting...
Seems more like incomplete data. Spot checked a few of the "programming" ones that did not have "paid vacation" listed, and sure enough, they do (example: https://convertkit.com/careers/).
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#24How can I fix incomplete info about my company?
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#25One thing would be helpful is listing or explaining the criteria you used to call these "remote companies". One company that has onsite locations with teams that are remote or allows remote work frequently is going to be different than a company like Gitlab which is basically entirely remote.
Thanks, yes! I've been struggling with this! I have considered company to be remote when they are looking for remote team members (posted a remote job on the Internet) or they have members in more than one city without having offices in all of these locations.
I've been visiting a lot of "our team" pages lately! The degree that these companies are "remote" varies a lot, yes! A lot of them are just starting out to be remote and are looking for their second remote team member or something like that.
Obviously it's far from perfect and I've been working on this as a sideproject for a few past months. It's interesting topic for me though! I too work remotely and I see more and more companies going remote which is very cool. I'm much more productive coding from home than going to office every day.
Also, you have a good point with this "entirely remote" Gitlab example. I've been thinking about how to ask this from companies – how remote are you? I guess % is one option, but it makes it too complicated I think ("we're 60% remote"). I currently have a checkbox:
Remote first – hiring and working from all over the world instead of from a central location (found this from remoteonly.org manifesto although they have this as "remote only")
and you can find companies based on that. I think that's enough. Probably I don't care to search for companies who are 30% or 50% remote, but I would like to to know if they are in a "remote first" mindset or not (office + two remote devs). Also, this % changes all the time!
So I have been thinking about terms "remote first", "remote only" and "partly remote" and I don't have definitions for them really :)
For example, "remote only" maybe shouldn't definitely mean that there's really like no office at all – think Doist for example, I think they have an office but I would call them "remote only" or "entirely remote" as majority of the people is spread accross the globe: https://remotehub.io/doist
All ideas and suggestions would be really helpful on how to differentiate these remote levels!
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#26One thing would be helpful is listing or explaining the criteria you used to call these "remote companies". One company that has onsite locations with teams that are remote or allows remote work frequently is going to be different than a company like Gitlab which is basically entirely remote.
There is also "Remote (Must live in America)"
This is another good point, thank you! I have a "hiring region" for remote companies to fill in, but I have almost zero info about this for now.
Also, not really sure how to fill this in exactly. Currently I have some checkboxes like "Europe", "North America" etc which is ok I guess.
I would like to make this searchable, so let's say I can specify my city and see companies that hire in this region.
Again, suggestions would be helpful!
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#27How can I fix incomplete info about my company?
You can create a free account here (when starting to type your company name, just choose it from the list to claim it):
https://remotehub.io/hire-remotely
Please enter your email at company's domain as this sign up process allows to claim a profile only with matching email domain.
You'll get an automatic email asking to confirm your email address. Let me know if you have any questions or problems!
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#28Mapbox is listed as a remote company, yet all their jobs are in SF or DC in their careers page. What is the criteria for a remote company ?
Yep, good point! It seems they are not hiring remote, at least for now. They do have remote team members all over the world though? Check out their map:
https://remotehub.io/mapbox
I filled this in based on their team page. Also found this: https://opensource.com/life/14/7/interview-justin-miller-map...
"I work for Mapbox remotely, but we do have offices. We've got about 30 folks in Washington, D.C., 15 in San Francisco, and about a dozen of us are remote in the U.S. and Canada, Europe, and South America."
So maybe they are open to consider remote candidates. I will need to email them and ask! If they are not considering new remote candidates, I should probably remove them from the list.
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#291900 sounds like a lot, but it very quickly narrows. There are only 5 or so companies listed for programming jobs at non-consultancies (i.e. companies that develop their own products) that offer paid time off. None of those 5 look that interesting...
Seems more like incomplete data. Spot checked a few of the "programming" ones that did not have "paid vacation" listed, and sure enough, they do (example: https://convertkit.com/careers/ ).
Ah sorry, I added "paid vacation" option recently and I haven't updated ConvertKit since:
https://twitter.com/remotehubio/status/1105455924985106434
Done now! https://remotehub.io/remote-companies-with-paid-vacation
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#301900 sounds like a lot, but it very quickly narrows. There are only 5 or so companies listed for programming jobs at non-consultancies (i.e. companies that develop their own products) that offer paid time off. None of those 5 look that interesting...
Yes, you are right. I still need to work on the data a lot and it takes time! I have been thinking to open it up for public editing, but I don't know if people would be interested in this. There's also a question then if someone would think it would be fun to add some random data which is not true (should be edit history and rollback?)
It will get better and better over time as I reach out to more companies and fill in their details!