Kind of related; but can someone give me some advice on what to look for when looking for a remote job? I kind of know what to look for when interviewing with local companies, but how do I know if a company that works remotely is a good fit? How do I know they know how to work remotely effectively?
Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers
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#12This is so similar to remoteok.io I thought it was the same website at first. Even the logo is remarkably similar.
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#13Kind of related; but can someone give me some advice on what to look for when looking for a remote job? I kind of know what to look for when interviewing with local companies, but how do I know if a company that works remotely is a good fit? How do I know they know how to work remotely effectively?
How do they ship code?
How do they make decisions and include remote workers?
How do they do meetings? Daily standups using camera or just a slackbot? No meetings at all? Weekly meetings? Figure out what you like and filter from there.
One thing you must look out for and ask about it remote culture. I've worked at companies where on-premises engineers had more say than remote engineers. If leadership doesn't stomp that behavior out immediately, the company will skew towards that. Leadership must make a conscious effort to create and encourage remote working culture.
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#14As a former remote worker, showing the salary would be priceless and instantly put you on top. Nothing worse than wasting your time and finding out a position is severely underpaid.
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#16This is so similar to remoteok.io I thought it was the same website at first. Even the logo is remarkably similar.
Pieter Levels (creator of remoteok) is one of the inspirations for building the site.
Another interesting coincidence is that he has levels.io and I have level.io (I registered it about 4 years prior to him).
To make things even stranger, he posted my exact birthday on a mock ID he created for his blog (Feb 20, 86): https://levels.io/remote-worker-visa/
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#17I can't be the only one that gets frustrated at these remote only career sites that don't display salary/day rate. It's such a waste of time for both parties to have to go through the hoops just to find out that the compensation is not worth it. Stackoverflow does it best - provide a filter for jobs that don't provide compensation info.
I agree that is rather annoying. I'll add salary, when available, to the job search results page soon (probably today or tomorrow).
I'll also look into adding a filter to exclude those without salary listing but can't promise any timeline on that.
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#18You know "medical coder" has NOTHING to do with software right?
The site is for all types of jobs, not strictly software related ones.
"coder" isn't a great choice of search term. If that's what you searched for, that's what you'll get as the search results are based on the job description, as well as the technology tags.
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#19As a former remote worker, showing the salary would be priceless and instantly put you on top. Nothing worse than wasting your time and finding out a position is severely underpaid.
I agree and wish everyone did provide a salary. Will add it to the job listing search results, if provided, soon.
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#20Hi, I am mostly remote (1 out of 3 clients is onsite). Are you looking for any help on running this site? I am interested in seeing this idea grow to contain more job listings.
What's your skill set?