"and ask you to submit a short video to ensure that you have good fit with working remotely." I don't have a lot of confidence in the measurement of having 'a good fit'
Also a great way to discriminate against candidates. “This guy is too old/female/black/etc”
If you have a suggestion for alternative ways to evaluate:
- English skills
- Communication skills
- Independent problem-solving skills
Of course, we are against discrimination. Just the opposite, we want a more connected world where people have easy access to job opportunities regardless of where they live.
I worked for 7+ years remotely and turned down Google/Facebook/Uber/Amazon/Netflix because they wanted me to move. I'd rather spend two months on Hawaii than in some "cool open-plan office", distracted to death, getting sick around influenza periods and wasting time commuting in the process.
Ha if you think you won’t get the flu because you work remotely.. by not being in an office, herd protection actually goes down. I’ve had more illness working remotely than working in the office over my 20+ years. That said, you’re away from coworkers with kids. That’s the sickness that doesn’t help immunity. But once you have a kid of your own, all that worry goes out the window. Don’t mean to be a party pooper, but…
OP here!
RemoteMore vs Triplebyte is an easy question.
Triplebyte:
"Do you have remote opportunities?
No. Right now, most of the companies we work with are hiring full-time in-office engineers. In the future, we hope to offer more remote opportunities."
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On the remote work and getting sick, I don't have personal observations. I'll leave that question to others.
I worked for 7+ years remotely and turned down Google/Facebook/Uber/Amazon/Netflix because they wanted me to move. I'd rather spend two months on Hawaii than in some "cool open-plan office", distracted to death, getting sick around influenza periods and wasting time commuting in the process.
Ha if you think you won’t get the flu because you work remotely.. by not being in an office, herd protection actually goes down. I’ve had more illness working remotely than working in the office over my 20+ years. That said, you’re away from coworkers with kids. That’s the sickness that doesn’t help immunity. But once you have a kid of your own, all that worry goes out the window. Don’t mean to be a party pooper, but…
It's my observation that when I worked remotely and traveled around the world at the same time, I had the best health state in my life; that was incomparable to e.g. a previous employment with open-plan office with colleagues taking smoking breaks all the time, making the indoor air nasty, and being guaranteed to catch some long-lasting small to medium sickness every year (e.g. half of the office coughing a bit for 1-2 months). Now visiting Google/Facebook and seeing desks crammed next to each other... I meet people outside, throw own parties, visit gyms/saunas, so I am exposed to latest "flu trends", yet remote work made my illnesses infrequent (well, they do happen if I can't stop and don't cut working time to 8 hours/day...). Also, the stress is way lower, I don't need to look at a boss' grumpy face that overcompensates for their lack of capabilities by ramping up their controlling/dominance aspects.
Also a great way to discriminate against candidates. “This guy is too old/female/black/etc”
If you have a suggestion for alternative ways to evaluate: - English skills - Communication skills - Independent problem-solving skills Of course, we are against discrimination. Just the opposite, we want a more connected world where people have easy access to job opportunities regardless of where they live. I am very interested to hear!
All three metrics you mentioned can be evaluated using writing. In fact, writing makes up most of the communication in a remote environment.
If you have a suggestion for alternative ways to evaluate: - English skills - Communication skills - Independent problem-solving skills Of course, we are against discrimination. Just the opposite, we want a more connected world where people have easy access to job opportunities regardless of where they live. I am very interested to hear!
All three metrics you mentioned can be evaluated using writing. In fact, writing makes up most of the communication in a remote environment.
I will think in this direction, thank you for putting some more arguments towards that!
My main concern with this direction is whether we should evaluate for language speaking skills. Second concern is cheating. Third concern, it's more difficult to build.
All three metrics you mentioned can be evaluated using writing. In fact, writing makes up most of the communication in a remote environment.
I will think in this direction, thank you for putting some more arguments towards that! My main concern with this direction is whether we should evaluate for language speaking skills. Second concern is cheating. Third concern, it's more difficult to build.
It's actually easier. Cheating can be discouraged via real-time chat sessions, while async communication like emails or essay-style discussions can be scored via an NLP library like spaCy. If a machine can understand and parse the candidate's writing, chances are it's valid English.
All three metrics you mentioned can be evaluated using writing. In fact, writing makes up most of the communication in a remote environment.
I will think in this direction, thank you for putting some more arguments towards that! My main concern with this direction is whether we should evaluate for language speaking skills. Second concern is cheating. Third concern, it's more difficult to build.
That's an awesome idea! Thank you! I'll talk with some users about it to hear their feedback.