Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs • Hacker News Board

The Elixr position had a "apply with LinkedIn" which worked surprisingly well (must look into how, that seems a sellable app), and I almost had an online CV to upload. Almost.

Re: Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs

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Post by davidroetzel » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 10:02 AM UTC

Thanks! This is really nice. I find it frustrating to browse remote job ads only to find out at the end, that they mean "remote, but US only".

(Of course I can understand why US companies make this restriction, I just wish other job boards would help them make this more clear up front.)

Re: Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs

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Post by dvcrn » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 10:15 AM UTC

davidroetzel wrote: post #5

Thanks! This is really nice. I find it frustrating to browse remote job ads only to find out at the end, that they mean "remote, but US only". (Of course I can understand why US companies make this restriction, I just wish other job boards would help them make this more clear up front.)

I agree with this. I applied on a handful of jobs stating "work from everywhere you want" in the past only to later find out that they meant US only.

Now I want something for asia timezones and I'm happy.

Re: Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs

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Post by zlw » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 10:16 AM UTC

This is great. Thanks for sharing. Is there a Japanese version?

Re: Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs

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Post by 10dpd » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 10:21 AM UTC

davidroetzel wrote: post #5

Thanks! This is really nice. I find it frustrating to browse remote job ads only to find out at the end, that they mean "remote, but US only". (Of course I can understand why US companies make this restriction, I just wish other job boards would help them make this more clear up front.)

I agree, even on smarthires.io, where positions are supposedly vetted and only open to YC alumni, I've had several companies that have abruptly ended the conversation when I state I'm based in Europe, despite my profile clearly stating that my preferred location is London or Remote.

Re: Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs

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Post by trymas » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 10:29 AM UTC

> You should be (or have a strong desire to become) a HTML5 geek, JavaScript nerd and CSS wizard.

I had to double check if I am reading a job ad or hipster blogger's about page.

Though, the site itself is great, there are indeed many 'remote' job ads, though somehow by default many are 'remote in USA', so it's great value.

Re: Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs

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Post by manuelflara » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 10:34 AM UTC

This is awesome.

One observation: maybe in this case, including the number of subscribers is actually a deterrent for getting people to subscribe. I'm talking about the "Join over 1100 subscribers." line.

You may be triggering a "damn, I'm going to have to compete with that many other developers for the same handful of jobs?" response instead of the usual "If that many people trust this guy with their email, it must be OK for me to give it" one that this best practice suggests.