I hope this trend is here to stay, I cannot even imagine of going to an office in a daily basis anymore
Same, I like working in the office, but my quality of life and that of my family has drastically improved since moving to remote working.
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Re: Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote
#262I think it's pretty cool that there's more alignment here between what many people wanted and what's available. I think especially for places with long commutes this is a huge efficiency. Personally, I live a short bike ride in SF from work and we're all in-office and I prefer that.
And it's really helped with democratization, too. With Turing and Deel and so on, you can hire internationally once you're ready to work with remote folk. It has been interesting to me that I've heard more about Eastern Europe, Africa, and India for this rather than South America.
South America has a massive timezone advantage, but why so few remote workers from there?
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#263I'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.
There's arguments from both sides of the coin but, though I'm biased having worked remote for almost 5 years now, I think the remote-side usually wins the argument by simply being more reasonable. I see far fewer remote workers claiming that "everyone should work remote" and more in-office workers making sweeping claims that remote reduces creativity, reduces, productivity, or makes people lazy. The anti-remote folks…
> I see far fewer remote workers claiming that "everyone should work remote"
The presence of a remote worker on a team means everyone is working remotely, in that all meetings have to be video conferences in order to include them. It's just that some might be working remotely from an office.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, this is all anecdotal, but I'll add my 2c - been in the business for something like 15 years and was looking for work in May. It has never felt deader, remote or onsite. Usually recruiters are beating down your door. This time not even friends could get me any interviews. The way I got a job was by writing some technical articles and establishing a relationship with a very energetic VC person. I asked him if he…
How do I get myself out there to make these connections? I can make connections with coworkers, but I don’t know how to expand beyond my circle (like meeting VC folk)
I cannot give much advice on this, because my experience is minimal. I would say pick a domain and learn to stand out in it. I stood out just a little by doing technical research and writing about it, then posting it in chats/social media. Actually, having twitter was essential. We pretty much met over twitter. On twitter every person is equally accessible to you, be they a celebrity or your cousin Bob.
Re: Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote
#265> on HN The most important subtext. There are engineer friends of mine laid off from remote companies that, almost 5 months later, cannot get work. These aren't braindead seatwarmers either. The software engineer market has shifted under our feet DRAMATICALLY. Any software engineer with a position should try to keep it for as long as they possible can.
people don't send me an offer after remote interviews
people do send me an offer after in person interviews
I have no problem getting callbacks and multiple rounds of interviews and busy work take home challenges just in case anyone else is having a similar experience, also interview at hybrid roles or offer to do an in person one
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This useless administrator[0] who failed King County completely is hired by Seattle for $250/hr.
Paying SWEs $150k-250k is low.
[0] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/regional-homelessn...
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
Companies are being cheap. Software engineers are only providing 200k dollars worth of value? I find that hard to believe.
~200K, inflation adjusted, is historically the salary of a competent senior software developer in the US. Give or take depending on location, so you can expect around this for remote (which doesn't suffer the same labor shortage pressure of some regions). A friend of mine told me he joined Microsoft right out of college in 1998 for 35K/year + 10% bonus. This is around 70K-80K today. As a Senior II Software Engineer a…
i mean the low paying jobs he refers to only pay like 100k, if your paying sr engineers and leads 100-150k you are being cheap when you consider how much value we provide.
if you think engineers only provide maybe 200k dollars of value then sure pay 100k but i find that hard to believe
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
To any immigrants reading, remember that unions were instrumental in foreigners finding it hard to move to the US. Here are some opinions on you from HN users:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36511005
> Artifactually (sic) increasing the supply of workers suppresses wages.
Your existence will devalue their education
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505802
> Given that it is much more expensive to gain skill when you are a native, the government somewhat pulled the rug from underneath the locals who spend a lot of money to go to uni etc and were hoping to have a decent return on their investment in education.
"Getting rid" of you will be considered a good idea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36506071
> I think US will benefit in the long run getting rid of these h1bs.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
A trite statement like this has very little meaning. You don't need a double-blind placebo study to observe the shifting market.
> You don't need a double-blind placebo study to observe the shifting market. Is your data based on just a few of your friends? How is that considered a "shifting market"? My friends and I do not experience what you are arguing. In fact, we experience the opposite of what you are saying.
Considering that literally hundreds of thousands of qualified people have been laid off this year alone, many of them devs, and plenty of anecdotes on this and other tech forums/chat groups about how the job market has shifted to favor employers, I think it isn't wildly irrational to believe the person you're responding to.
Sure, "the plural of anecdote isn't data" and all that, but talk to recruiters and you'll hear much the same. Yes, even in this market it's possible to get outstanding offers but I'm fairly confident in asserting that that's much rarer right now than it was, say, a year or two ago.
Re: Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote
#270I hope this trend is here to stay, I cannot even imagine of going to an office in a daily basis anymore
Same, I work much better from home. I have a tendency to talk out loud to myself when working on something and I feel like people would think I'm a bit annoying/crazy doing that in an open office environment.