12 hours away - are you in the Northern or Southern hemisphere? (Just out of curiosity). There doesn't seem to be the same remote outsourcing trend here in the Southern hemisphere.
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#22I am looking hire front-end designers. Not sure if HN is the right place, but if you know anyone, please feel free to have them contact me at at gmail.com
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#23Kind of off topic, but I'm curious how difficult it is to get remote (non-contract) development Jobs these days? I'm not currently on the Job market, but in a couple of years, I plan to move back to the place I was born, and there are not many, if any, great companies to work with there for a software developer. I guess what it boils down to me wondering if it is easy or hard to find remote development positions and…
Unless you already have a relationship with the employer, is a big pain in the butt.. the amount of noise vs signal in the web job market is enough to discourage anyone.
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#24I am working as remote consultant/developer for like 4 yrs now. Once you get a good reputation in any sphere looking for new projects isnt a prob anymore. I specialize in Rails/ajax/push/e-commerce and don't really advertise my services for last like year, while have stable deal flow and even employ team of devs that help me. However I work onsites from time to time when needed.
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#2512 hours away - are you in the Northern or Southern hemisphere? (Just out of curiosity). There doesn't seem to be the same remote outsourcing trend here in the Southern hemisphere.
Here in South America we are mostly on the same time zone with the US (+/- 3hours) so there is quite a bit of remote work going on.. Since I got here I've met people doing HTML,php,python,sql and some Java for companies all over the US.. I also know of a few large US companies (fortune 100) who are opening big offices over here. Also, countries like Chile & Argentina are given big incentives for startups to move over there.
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#26I'm head of integrations at FreshBooks and I am looking for agencies to outsource projects to (PHP, Rails, and Python). Unfortunately, I am not looking for sole freelancers as I want the agency to manage the product management, design, implementation, testing, and validation. However, if you have a group of people you frequently work with who can cover all of that, then drop me a line.
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#27Mozilla's web development team uses Python and Django, and has several remote workers. I work remotely for Mozilla; my own team has workers in Mountain View, Toronto, Seattle, Vancouver, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Paris.
See http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/careers/ and you can email me (see profile) if you have any questions or want an introduction to someone.
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#28For me personally, there was a stretch from 2004 to 2008 when it was really easy to get remote work. This allowed me to travel and work at the same time, which I loved. Businesses were desperate for people with good web development skills, at that time.
Then the recession hit, and everything changed, at least for me. The remote work vanished. I can still find good paying work in New York City, but its all the kind of work where you have to go into the office everyday.
My guess is that the kind of work that can be done remotely has moved to countries that have very low wages. The kind of work that remains is the kind of work that can not be done remotely (or so the client feels, due to considerations of security or firewalls or the need for cross-functional team integration, or for the need of internal training of other workers who are suppose to learn skills from you).
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#29If you need design/front-end coding hit me up at davide {at} 39inc.com
(as a company we actually do more than just design, but the design part is what i'm personally taking care of)
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#30Kind of off topic, but I'm curious how difficult it is to get remote (non-contract) development Jobs these days? I'm not currently on the Job market, but in a couple of years, I plan to move back to the place I was born, and there are not many, if any, great companies to work with there for a software developer. I guess what it boils down to me wondering if it is easy or hard to find remote development positions and…
So from the responses, it seems like the idea is that you need to convince your current employeer that you want to work remotely. That certainly seems like a good option, just not so good when you are trying to switch companies.
Thanks for the feedback guys, hopefully this will sort itself out in the next couple of years(when it actually becomes an issue)!