3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
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Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#2It probably won’t be the norm in the future. I’ve been waiting for a “Big 4” company to announce some sort of permanent WFH plan but they haven’t budged, and that’s a bad sign.
Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#3It probably won’t be the norm in the future. I’ve been waiting for a “Big 4” company to announce some sort of permanent WFH plan but they haven’t budged, and that’s a bad sign.
Facebook did?
Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#4Does anybody think this might be a permanent shift? I would love it if I could have the convenience of a top-paying remote job in software development. The twitter thread voiced concerns about this trend being like a pendulum that could swing back to the dominance of in-person work, even within a year. Covid has proved that remote employment is possible, but the question remains: will companies rescind their current policies when the pandemic fades away?
Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#5I work at Microsoft and in Azure Cosmos DB, the same org as Steve.
Leadership believing in remote makes all the difference. We'd been doing more and more remote hiring in the years before COVID, especially when remote made a specific skillset's talent pool larger. This led to some remote-friendly, bordering on remote-first culture. When COVID hit, we adapted really fast.
I had taken a short break from Cosmos DB before COVID hit, and then accepted a new management role back on the team right as COVID was hitting. I've never seen my team all in the same room; but it's been fine/normal-ish. Now that full-remote just takes manager approval, we've had folks move away from Seattle/SF. I've got reports in the UK and NYC. It's pushed our culture to be a lot more communicative, intentional, and organized, which is good for everyone, Seattle based or remote.
What's great about all this is now there isn't even a question of "is remote ok"? We don't need to be looking for a specific skillset or a certain level of seniority. It really opens up the talent pool; recent hires have given us a lot more selection. (P.S. - I'm hiring Product Managers; permanent remote. Check out my pinned tweet on the twitter profile in my bio)
Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#6It probably won’t be the norm in the future. I’ve been waiting for a “Big 4” company to announce some sort of permanent WFH plan but they haven’t budged, and that’s a bad sign.
It's always been bums on seats for them. Without that they will be measured by productivity alone which will be a disaster.
Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#7This is highly related to location based compensation. Sure companies are still able to pay there most senior devs less than their out of coding bootcamp just because they are not sitting in their SF office and I am ok with this, but as a remote dev from eastern Europe I am seeing new types of companies that learned how to work with remote talent effectively (not just in term of pay, but also team dynamic) and they make a killing.
Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#8It probably won’t be the norm in the future. I’ve been waiting for a “Big 4” company to announce some sort of permanent WFH plan but they haven’t budged, and that’s a bad sign.
Facebook did?
it's conditional and doesn't apply to the entire org, or even to all engs. compare their new policy to twitter and square
Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#9Does anybody think this might be a permanent shift? I would love it if I could have the convenience of a top-paying remote job in software development. The twitter thread voiced concerns about this trend being like a pendulum that could swing back to the dominance of in-person work, even within a year. Covid has proved that remote employment is possible, but the question remains: will companies rescind their current…
My two cents as a remote dev for past two decades I think we are not going back as the landscape changed a lot: the scene used to consist of code me a facebook clone for 200USD to getting rich iOS apps towards seeing more bootstrapped high margin businesses and VC backed startups. This last group starting to learn doing remote work effectively and they manage to mine this talent pool profitably
Re: 3 years ago, remote top paying gigs were hard to find. Today they are the norm
#10It probably won’t be the norm in the future. I’ve been waiting for a “Big 4” company to announce some sort of permanent WFH plan but they haven’t budged, and that’s a bad sign.
Working from home doesn't work.
People need to be together physically to create trust in each other. Trust is the base ingredient for successful collaboration.
Many teams in current covid situation suffer from team issues. Demotivation, unaligned, conflicts. The fun is gone.
Specially visible in software dev teams in which generally people are not the most proactive talkers.
Most positive feedback you hear today are from existing lone wolfs who used to work remote before covid and never really worked in teams.
We all know how successful (not!) outsourcing can be. Working from home is even worse.