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Re: Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote

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Post by saasxyz »

cj wrote: post #152

Side note to the remote founders/employers out there: Have you been plagued by applicant fraud? We've found for all of our remote engineering roles, we get 100's of amazing applicants who are all fake (clearly not actually in the US) once you get them on a screening call. They're often reading from a script, broken english, and say strange things like they're born and raised in Texas, yet can't speak fluent English o…

do you clearly mention that the role is only for US candidates? what platforms do you use to source the candidates?

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Post by rjbwork »

MoSattler wrote: post #141
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #128

Meta: I want us to appreciate that total number of job postings on HN have been steadily falling since 2018 [1] with what appears to be an outlier jump in 2021 (post-pandemic bubble). That seems pretty important... Am I missing some big piece of context here that would make my analysis wrong? https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1683877057959272449

Anecdotally, I've heard from HR professionals that posting on Hacker News isn't a particularly effective method for attracting candidates. Perhaps this could be the reason.

Yeah my company has posted a couple of times and despite saying US only, we only got people from SEA and Eastern Europe...so we stopped posting.

Re: Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote

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Post by baristaGeek »

This statistic makes a lot of sense, and can only expect it will keep going up. Pre-pandemic companies suffered a lot from the lack of talent/talent war in their geography. Now they can hire the best person in the world for a given role, or at least in their timezone (I believe in the power of synchronous work to a certain extent).

If this is happening in the middle of a VC downturn, imagine how it's going to be once we're back to good times.

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Post by biomcgary »

bamfly wrote: post #134
soseng wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your experience almost exactly mirrors my own. I moved from Boston to the Midwest USA in 2016 and kept working remotely until a RIF in 2019. I found a local job that did require a commute but a few months later, we all became remote. In between, I started a family and had 2 kids who have always interacted with me at home. And I am very thankful for that opportunity that many do not have. Our company has since mandate…

> The current technology is not so adequate in this area yet.. We use google workspaces/chat and meet. I curse it every week.. I think this is the one place AR/VR is almost ready to really help out. "Teleport" your chair to someone else's space while they "draw" on the "whiteboard" to show you things—with their actual body and hands. Rigs anywhere near good enough to make this non-terrible are gonna be expensive for…

I'd much rather have Google's Project Starline than traditional AR/VR. It seems perfect to replace in person meetings (no goggles). Unfortunately, that is the only value, whereas AR provides virtual workspaces and is likely cheaper in mass production and space requirments (don't need large screens).

Given Google's history, my guess is that Starline is on the chopping block even if showcased at I/O with a scaled back price tag. I hope I'm wrong.

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Post by biomcgary »

Aurornis wrote: post #120
bluefishinit wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Apparently they had so many problems with remote employees (and their managers!) barely getting any work done This was most likely also happening in the office, it was just masked with the appearance of work in the form of in-person meetings and people zoning out at their desks. When you have a bunch of people in a room together progress grinds to a halt because it becomes completely about performance.

> This was most likely also happening in the office Not in this case. They even had a chart showing the sharp decline in several different metrics when they let people go remote. If you subtracted out the outliers, most of the company was fine going remote. About 20% of people dropped their productivity to a fraction of before, though. Some people can't handle remote work. I think it's time we stopped pretending like…

Unfortunately, rapidly falling metrics for a minority of remote employees is immediately obvious. The reduction in burnout of top performers due to working remote is much harder to measure since it is in an entirely different frequency domain.

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Post by w4termelon »

1270018080 wrote: post #154
HDThoreaun wrote: post #97

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Salary has never been about the value you provide. It's about the cost to replace you. Companies will never pay you more than you cost to replace.

Which is why we need a union, despite what libertarians think they are above.

> Which is why we need a union

Development is global as opposed to, say, cab driving. So, tech companies from other parts of the world will applaud your decision. Keep pushing new regulations, we'll reap the benefits.

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Post by JambalayaJim »

dimitrios1 wrote: post #18
ryneandal wrote: post #5

I've been working remotely for nearly seven years now. I've been able to enjoy all of the typical "firsts" for my youngest two, saved immense amounts of time with no commute, and have been able to pitch in more regarding domestic tasks. I understand and empathize with those that value face-to-face conversations in the office, but for those that don't, remote work is an incredible boon.

I have been working full time remote since Sept 2021 (correction, 2020, just before pandemic). It's not even that I don't value the face-to-face conversations and human interaction, I absolutely do. It just doesn't come close to the immense value I gain by WFH. A side benefit: I was able to move closer to my church community, so my "human interaction" need is being fulfilled richer than ever now. (One of the most fru…

>(One of the most frustrating things in all the WFH vs RTO discourse is that there is this false dichotomy being presented. It's either extroverted people who are energized by others, or introverts who'd rather be in the dark closet by themselves. I am as extroverted as they come, and I thrived in the office environment. Still wouldn't trade WFH for the world.)

I believe the extrovert vs. introvert division is a false dichotomy in the first place.

Commute time, environment at home, career seniority - these are the most important factors in this discussion

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Post by baristaGeek »

bamfly wrote: post #81
Invictus0 wrote: post #43

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cannot get work... at the price they want. Plenty of low-paying remote jobs out there

> low-paying For high values of "low paying". $150-250k TC, instead of $300-500k.

Exactly! It just makes the job market much more perfect. $500k at scale is an economic squander.
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