I've been thinking of going remote in the next few years. Something I'm curious about is how it affects salary negotiation. To those of you who work remotely, have you found that companies typically try to pay you less than their on-site developers because you most likely live in a cheaper area?
Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds
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Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds
#32First job I clicked on had this description: "Due to our rapid growth, we now need an in-house web developer. Initially we are looking to work together on a contractual basis (a “trial by fire,” if you’d prefer) for"
I like the idea but you should really make sure all of the hobs are "remote".
[edit] it was the Evil Genius post - https://jobs.github.com/positions/d11107fe-7bb7-11e2-89f3-8b.... Also: I have heard from several people that all DevinArt post are BS. They always post the same thing and I have never found a single person they ever actually spoke to or interviewed.
Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds
#33First job I clicked on had this description: "Due to our rapid growth, we now need an in-house web developer. Initially we are looking to work together on a contractual basis (a “trial by fire,” if you’d prefer) for" I like the idea but you should really make sure all of the hobs are "remote". [edit] it was the Evil Genius post - https://jobs.github.com/positions/d11107fe-7bb7-11e2-89f3-8b... . Also: I have heard fro…
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Re: Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds
#34First job I clicked on had this description: "Due to our rapid growth, we now need an in-house web developer. Initially we are looking to work together on a contractual basis (a “trial by fire,” if you’d prefer) for" I like the idea but you should really make sure all of the hobs are "remote". [edit] it was the Evil Genius post - https://jobs.github.com/positions/d11107fe-7bb7-11e2-89f3-8b... . Also: I have heard fro…
That's a good point. They note that it's a "remote" job at the top of the post, but it's not totally clear from the post itself that that's the case. I'll remove that one.
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#35This is awesome....I would love to see 'contractor gigs' and other, highly curated, freelance gigs posted here. The good kind, not the crappy Craigslist variety.
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#36I personally dislike the idea of (further) fragmenting things like job boards (or real estate listings, or travel fares, etc.) where breadth is critical. How is this better than a general-purpose job board with an option to filter by remote-friendliness? Unless people are willing to potentially miss out on listings that don't happen to be on this particular board, this is just one more addition to a long list of plac…
That's true in many ways and partly explains why Indeed.com (aggregation) is the largest source of online hires. The question of do 'niche job boards' have a future is interesting and I would argue yes (in the same way specialty stores still have a future).
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#37It's great to see that you're focusing in on specific a niche, since that's where most of the money is in the job board industry and its the quickest way for you to attract an audience. The fact that your job list is hand curated and you are zeroing in on remote work, which is important to many in the tech community, will go a long way towards building an audience. Right now, your biggest strength is that you're on t…
If you weren't against building site based on WordPress, a nice addition to the job board software list would be JobEngine: http://www.enginethemes.com/themes/jobengine
I think its design is quite more modern than most of the other players in the field. Here is the demo site: http://demo.enginethemes.com/jobengine
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#38I personally dislike the idea of (further) fragmenting things like job boards (or real estate listings, or travel fares, etc.) where breadth is critical. How is this better than a general-purpose job board with an option to filter by remote-friendliness? Unless people are willing to potentially miss out on listings that don't happen to be on this particular board, this is just one more addition to a long list of plac…
I know ... another example of this: http://xkcd.com/927/ . The hope is that, eventually, this would be a place where we could aggregate the remote jobs featured at the various job boards (at least, the major ones: Authentic Jobs, GitHub, 37signals, Stack Overflow) in one place.
That's what http://jobmote.com/ does currently.
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#39First job I clicked on had this description: "Due to our rapid growth, we now need an in-house web developer. Initially we are looking to work together on a contractual basis (a “trial by fire,” if you’d prefer) for" I like the idea but you should really make sure all of the hobs are "remote". [edit] it was the Evil Genius post - https://jobs.github.com/positions/d11107fe-7bb7-11e2-89f3-8b... . Also: I have heard fro…
DeviantART actually interviewed me, but I was unimpressed by their hiring process. It seemed very make-shift (i.e. "I'll contact you shortly," then next contact comes 3 weeks later). In the end I was waiting for another interview (apparently the interviewer was on vacation), but was then dropped because 'the position was filled,' or something similar.
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#40There are many employment-related hashtags you can be using when you post to twitter that may increase your audience. I'm sure there are some for working remotely as well.
Beautiful site - nice work.