6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
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Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#2The title may be a bit misleading, "What questions to ask when interviewing for remote job" would be a better description.
Would have been helpful to explain why some answers are bad, why they show a bad "fully-remote" environment. Otherwise good post. The 1st item is very important: being the first/only fully remote employee is really tough.
Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#3The title may be a bit misleading, "What questions to ask when interviewing for remote job" would be a better description. Would have been helpful to explain why some answers are bad, why they show a bad "fully-remote" environment. Otherwise good post. The 1st item is very important: being the first/only fully remote employee is really tough.
Yeah, I agree. I updated the title here, but I just need to pay more attention to titles+content in general I think. I'm trying to get back into blogging so I really like this feedback!
Also, I totally agree on the being the first employee is a tough one. I've done that 2 times now and it's not easy.
Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#4> If there’s drawing we have an app that we use where anyone can draw and anyone can see what’s being drawn.
somebody had success with such draw apps? this is a missing piece for us
Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#5> If there’s drawing we have an app that we use where anyone can draw and anyone can see what’s being drawn. somebody had success with such draw apps? this is a missing piece for us
I had really good luck with the one built into google hangouts. I think it depends on what you're trying to convey. Sometimes just sharing mockups works really well too.
Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#6> If there’s drawing we have an app that we use where anyone can draw and anyone can see what’s being drawn. somebody had success with such draw apps? this is a missing piece for us
Haven't had success here either, generally I'll use a whiteboard or a piece of paper and show it to my web cam.
If I have more time I'll throw something together in Illustrator. Would be nice to have something more collaborative.
Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#7> If there’s drawing we have an app that we use where anyone can draw and anyone can see what’s being drawn. somebody had success with such draw apps? this is a missing piece for us
Haven't had success here either, generally I'll use a whiteboard or a piece of paper and show it to my web cam. If I have more time I'll throw something together in Illustrator. Would be nice to have something more collaborative.
So just googling around I found this and it seems to work pretty good.
https://awwapp.com/b/u21itcedr/
Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#8I really like the article but I’m really not sure about:
>> Chat works so well at communicating with the team that we’re all available 24/7/365
We’re fully remote at my job - no 2 people are in the same state in the whole, small, org. And I think we work well.
But people sign off at 6:30 in their own timezone by and large - and while they’ll check slack as much as they’d check email, slack is not going to cut for 24 hour access.
And it shouldn’t - we don’t want a culture of no downtime at all. If it’s an emergency use their pager* - which yes does get expensive for foreign employees but really the company is fine picking up those charges.
Even if you are remote quality of life matters - and people’s timezones, and schedules should be respected.
* Note that everyone does have a "pager number"- including our support reps. But most people haven’t been paged in more than a year. We consider this to be the right way to do things.
Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#9I really like the article but I’m really not sure about: >> Chat works so well at communicating with the team that we’re all available 24/7/365 We’re fully remote at my job - no 2 people are in the same state in the whole, small, org. And I think we work well. But people sign off at 6:30 in their own timezone by and large - and while they’ll check slack as much as they’d check email, slack is not going to cut for 24…
That was given as a "Bad" thing- so if a company says "Oh yeah everyone's 24/7/365" then that's a red flag/ run away situation.
Re: 6 Things to ask when interviewing for a remote job
#10I really like the article but I’m really not sure about: >> Chat works so well at communicating with the team that we’re all available 24/7/365 We’re fully remote at my job - no 2 people are in the same state in the whole, small, org. And I think we work well. But people sign off at 6:30 in their own timezone by and large - and while they’ll check slack as much as they’d check email, slack is not going to cut for 24…
Yeah sorry if my GOOD/BAD wasn't clear. But I was trying to convey that if that's the kind of response a company gives then you should take it as a warning. I've had companies say things like that in interviews when I asked them questions about remote communication and I think it means their management has not matured yet.