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Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by Casteil »

Not an engineer, but I am in software development; I'm about to accept an offer after only having gotten serious about applying ~1 month ago. Applied to ~17 roles between ~2-4 weeks ago (all but 1 fully remote), and the role I'm about to accept was the second place I applied to.

There was no shortage of fully remote roles, in fact.. there were so many new ones popping up every day on LinkedIn that I was quite selective about what type of companies / projects I applied to (avoiding financial/health/crypto and anything else that felt dull or ethically questionable).

In my own personal experience... the "widespread hiring freeze" feels like little more than media sensationalism.

Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by wyclif »

rnk wrote: post #174
boppo1 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you go looking for recruiters?

You could just put "open to opportunities" on your linked in. I always wondered if that would hurt at my last job, now I just leave it on all the time.

This is what I do. I leave it on all the time, which signals to recruiters that I'm at least willing to hear them out.

Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by recvonline »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #151
recvonline wrote: post #27

I was looking for new work this year and found a company which hired me for +40% salary increase and remote/timezone free. Personally I have young kids and therefore prefer flexible times, fully remote etc. Being in Europe, I think fully remote is getting embraced. It‘s the third company where I get US level salary plus all the benefits (30 days vacation, unlimited sick leave etc). I see a strong trend from young fam…

> Being in Europe, I think fully remote is getting embraced. It‘s the third company where I get US level salary plus all the benefits. But this is as an actual employee not as a contractor? Most of the US roles I've seen, that would consider EU ppl, the expect contractor arrangements where you deal with your own taxes.

Twice it was a US based company (San Francisco), who are used to SF salaries, and found out the the "same quality" engineers in Germany can be hired for much cheaper (cost of living much cheaper etc.). So for both sides, its a win-win. I see many more companies doing this. It's not really good for the local economy, since you leverage the (back then) super liquid SF bay area market from within Germany.

They usually have a European/German office for the paper work, just pay much better but have to obviously comply to German labour laws. I am happy this works so well so far, but don't count on it being like this forever.

From what I heard from these two companies, that they stopped hiring SF engineers (because too expensive) and looked for other places in the US with the same timezone.

Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

recvonline wrote: post #203
DoingIsLearning wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Being in Europe, I think fully remote is getting embraced. It‘s the third company where I get US level salary plus all the benefits. But this is as an actual employee not as a contractor? Most of the US roles I've seen, that would consider EU ppl, the expect contractor arrangements where you deal with your own taxes.

Twice it was a US based company (San Francisco), who are used to SF salaries, and found out the the "same quality" engineers in Germany can be hired for much cheaper (cost of living much cheaper etc.). So for both sides, its a win-win. I see many more companies doing this. It's not really good for the local economy, since you leverage the (back then) super liquid SF bay area market from within Germany. They usually h…

Yeah I suppose my follow up question is how does it work for you w/ async comms for companies with HQ in Pacific Standard Time?

Or are you just working with a completely separate CET team, and there is no Pacific time interaction?

Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by dx034 »

lefstathiou wrote: post #24

Early on (during Covid) I made the decision that remote work was not for our company (SAAS for financial services) and two years in have zero regrets about it. We are clear about our expectations so there are no surprises to employees and new hires (or we filter out people that want it). Most of our clients in financial services have reached the same conclusion. One of my clients at a large bulge bracket said “if the…

Do you expect 100% presence or are 2-3 days per week from home ok for you? I'd also never go fully remote but have found a hybrid model to be really productive.

Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by dx034 »

ImprobableTruth wrote: post #131
lefstathiou wrote: post #24

Early on (during Covid) I made the decision that remote work was not for our company (SAAS for financial services) and two years in have zero regrets about it. We are clear about our expectations so there are no surprises to employees and new hires (or we filter out people that want it). Most of our clients in financial services have reached the same conclusion. One of my clients at a large bulge bracket said “if the…

>One of my clients at a large bulge bracket said “if these people insist on not being in the office we may just outsource the job for a tenth of the comp”. I think more companies will take that view personally. That's obviously an empty threat. If they could save 90% by outsourcing, they'd already have done it. The idea that the tech market rate is as high as it is because of good-hearted managers is absolutely laugh…

They definitely tried it. All bulge bracket banks have significant portions of their staff outsourced, it never worked that well for highly compensated IT staff though.

Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by dx034 »

jedberg wrote: post #105
jelling wrote: post #37

For some hard data, in San Francisco and NYC, the mass transit agencies are starting to plan for never getting back to full ridership again. And by plan, I mean starting to ask for federal funding to keep the systems alive (which I think they should) because the fare revenue is never going to return to pre-pandemic levels but the physical plant remains just as expensive to operate. Keep in mind: these are two of the…

I've noticed interesting trends in the Bay Area. Up until about three weeks ago, traffic during rush hour was lighter than pre-pandemic. But about three weeks ago, traffic in the south bay (specifically 280N from 85 to 101) has returned to pre-pandemic levels. However, just last week I drove home from SF to Cupertino at 5pm and did it in 54 minutes (which is basically $min_time). Pre-pandemic that drive would have be…

I also have the feeling (not SF) that traffic has returned to pre pandemic levels, but rush hour is much less severe. Probably because people also sometimes spend half days at the office or travel for leisure instead of work (e.g. leaving on a Thursday and working Friday remotely from a vacation home).

Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by dx034 »

milosmns wrote: post #173

Berlin: most companies I know of are hybrid. As a community organizer, I talk to a lot of people - nobody said that their management is forcing anything yet. My own experience is that management doesn't care in most situations, as long as the work gets done. And it does right now. Reading online about it, I feel like most of the people who complain about this problem are in the USA, and that there's some kind of stru…

I've also felt that struggle between employees and managers in Europe. It's usually that employers set a minimum #days in the office and employees would like less office time. But I've heard of very few companies that are going back to 100% office. Even 2 days home office is viewed as restrictive now, whereas before very few places even allowed 2 days per week.

Re: Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking?

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Post by fbrncci »

methusala8 wrote: post #199
fbrncci wrote: post #31

I interviewed a lot this year; the amount is probably between 50-75, with at least 15 take homes (all 100% remote jobs). The great majority of those came from LinkedIn recruiters, and that all sucked, I got three offers which I declined because they weren't great. In the end, what got me a new job was my blog and the branding I have on Twitter. At some point my posts where getting traction, and companies started reac…

This is cool/ I would like to do something similar where I leverage my blog and Twitter: Any pointers on how you did this? Thanks.

Remain consistent in when you post content, and what you write about. Drill down a niche for yourself, and commit to posting at least once or twice a week. Then try to find as much social platforms to share it to (HN, Reddit, Dev.to, Twitter. etc). Also get yourself into conversations with other people posting content in your own niche; I have had many great discussions about tech topics on twitter that way.. I started getting a lot of attention when I was 5 months into my main area of expertise/niche, and making posts about very specific problems.
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