I did some research, but lots of offers seem to be ghost jobs and job boards look scammy
Where do you find fully remote (global) jobs in software/ML engineering nowadays?
Ask HN: Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs?
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#2I think you have to go via your network referral.
I've bought linkedin premium and can see that most jobs have 500+ candidates, not only it's impossible to apply but I have serious doubts they will chose the right person.
I failed my last interview because I failed to sell myself.
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#3There are quite a lot of interesting short-term consulting gigs on Upwork. But for anything long term, you should probably ask around among the people that already know you.
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#4levels.fyi has a job board with a "Fully remote" filter, might be worth checking out.
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#5There are quite a lot of interesting short-term consulting gigs on Upwork. But for anything long term, you should probably ask around among the people that already know you.
Assuming you're based in the West, a fast-food joint will pay more than Upwork.
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#6I'm South African, and international remote work seems to be popping up more these days on local job sources. Probably because we're relatively cheap.
Just worth thinking about what a company is looking for if they are looking at a foreign talent pool.
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#7In addition to the (real, but somewhat overblown) downturn in tech, the main problem is that hiring is fucked. Both sides are in a scam/fraud arms race.
Getting a job through the front door is basically impossible now - and if you want to try, you will need to lie and do all the dirty tricks your competition does, and even then, your conversion rate will be minuscule.
An alternative is either to go through your network (where people you know can vouch that you are real and not just a monkey slinging ChatGPT'd resumes from a boiler room) or in-person (which is immune to a lot of the boiler-room scams and thus you have more chance your application will actually be considered).
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#8Global remote has been on a bit of a downturn in the last few years.
There are many decent job boards out there, but the bigger problem is that many of them don't allow specifying remote within a country, or the US-oriented companies that post on them never specify that they only want remote within the US.
You end up wasting time looking at a cool job that pays well, only to see "Remote (US only)".
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#10levels.fyi has a job board with a "Fully remote" filter, might be worth checking out.
I find that a lot of their "fully remote" positions are only remote if you live in the US.