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Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by redguava »

There are a few complaints here about remote jobs not really being remote (eg. contrained within US borders).

We're looking for a remote Growth Hacker, and we really do mean remote... https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/142.

You can be anywhere in the world, you can work whenever you want. We even just expect 30 hours p/week, with full-time pay.

I know this comment is self-promoting, but we're a small bootstrapped and profitable startup from Australia. It's not easy to get the word out... so am taking the opportunity here.

Thanks!

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by ricardobeat »

pmjordan wrote: post #142
grey-area wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not at all what I was suggesting. I'm not suggesting setting up subsidiaries or anything of the kind. It's easy to subcontract work out to other countries if you're not tied to the idea of having employees, but instead hire companies (companies which already exist, like say small design shops, packaging firms for apps, or tech firms) to perform services for you, rather than individuals. Take 37 signals for exa…

That's a bit of a different beast to what the original commenters were suggesting. Engagements of that caliber usually involve outsourcing whole projects or subprojects (web presence for product X, whatever). Of course, there's overlap between what you can get a remote employee/contractor do vs. what you can "outsource". Note that levies might still be due on services performed across certain countries' borders. (muc…

Toptal (http://toptal.com) is trying to fill that void. Also heard of http://www.10xmanagement.com/.

Back on topic, that's exactly what the original commenter (zura) suggested. You can hire a foreign company for contract work without needing to hand over an entire project - you'll be paying for deliverables/features instead of time, but the end result is the same. AFAIK you have to report it to the IRS, but don't owe any taxes on it.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by paulhauggis »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #113
httpteapot wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried plateforms like oDesk?

If he is serious about actually working and making a living, oDesk is not the right place to work. I wrote about it a few days ago - https://medium.com/startup-shenanigans/66896bbf21da - cheap labor and sup-par clients, yeah, oDesk is definitely not the place.

I agree. I looked for some consulting work last year on Odesk and I saw many listings where the average wage was $1-$4/hour.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by paulhauggis »

wrboyce wrote: post #149
grey-area wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another approach to this is to stop looking for a job with a salary and strike out on your own as a contractor/company. If you have contacts in the industry already, this isn't as hard as it might seem, and makes it far easier to truly work remotely without being tied to one specific office. Having said that from experience (I did Paris-London for a while) I think you'd find it hard to telecommute or work remotely be…

I don't agree with your statement at all. The company I work for (and have been with for about two years) has employees across more timezones than I care to count (I am based in London, my colleagues across the US, Panama, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Russia and probably some others I've forgotten -- with one person soon moving to Australia) and we don't have any real issues. We even manage to have a daily s…

It can work..but rarely does it work well unless you have a really good manager and a really good team. Even then, there are tons of mis-communications along the way. I have experienced this working on remote teams.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by brdrak »

quaffapint wrote: post #165
atmosx wrote: post #116

I'm not a professional developer but I would be very interested even in low-salary junior developer job in Ruby. But most jobs posting I see require excellent knowledge of virtually every technology out there . I wonder how many developers are excellent at: * UNIX admin (setting up sql + nginx + unicorn on BSD/Linux) Rails/JS/CSS3/HTML5 * TDD * Excellent Closure and/or Scala * Virtualisatin/scaling/concurrency (put a…

My favorite is this one from FogCreek... Incredible coding skills. Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal." ...A little intimidating ain't it? Not sure what an animal developer truly is.

> Your friends and coworkers describe you as an "animal."

That made me laugh so hard. Sounds like a borderline HR issue. :-)

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Post by up_and_up »

netcan wrote: post #55

This is a more general comment about job postings in general - Why are salary ranges so seldom listed. If you look at a lot of leading job boards even the company name isn't listed (recruiters). Isn't salary a basic piece of information that every job listing should have?

Use Angelist. They list ranges etc: https://angel.co/jobs
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