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Re: List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects

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I'd like to give a thumbs up to both AngelList and my favorite former co-worker.

When things went south at our workplace, a coworker and I were kvetching about how hard it would be to find a good job locally, and how great it would be to work remote. But I had no clue how to get started with finding good remote jobs, and didn't do anything other than distribute my resume to local positions.

Instead she went through AngelList open jobs looking specifically for remote positions. She immediately got an interview, but midway through it she told them she was under-qualified for what they needed, and told them, "But I know someone who would be perfect for you", and a few weeks later they hired me. I'm very humbly grateful to her for changing my life immensely for the better.

And the even better news is she got her own remote job, again through AngelList, a couple weeks later. Not only did we both get substantial raises, but more importantly we are getting to work on much more interesting projects and on teams that are really supportive of us.

Re: List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects

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This was a big problem I faced as a remote freelancer looking for 100% remote front-end work.

Yes, there's a lot of remote work out there, but it's so spread out on various sources that you end up having to spend time every single day reading the listings in depth because many times there are constraints.

For example it's limited to candidates in the USA, or it's remote but you have to live in London, or it does have flexible hours but you have to be willing to join a meeting at 3:00 AM EST. I've run into all kinds of constraints.

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Re: List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects

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I found my job through StackOverflow jobs filtering by "Remote". Now I work for Hotjar, and we hire mostly in Europe timezones (although also some in North America). I'm specially interested in a DevOps/SRE type person to join my team, but we have other openings too.

I applied two times at HotJar in the past few months, without success. Can't say I'm a fan of the video part of the interview process.

What is the video part like?

For a full remote position, you'd think video chat would be a common thing.

Re: List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects

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Is it possible to get a HTML or plaintext version for people who don't just run any non-free JS[1]? [1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

would you be willing to pay for a proxy service that took a url that used non-free JS and rendered it to pure dom that you could then view without JS ? any sense of whether other people that care about such things would be willing to pay ?

isn't that close to what Reader Mode does?

Re: List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I applied two times at HotJar in the past few months, without success. Can't say I'm a fan of the video part of the interview process.

What is the video part like? For a full remote position, you'd think video chat would be a common thing.

For me the video part of the process involved recording a video about 6 minutes long where I had to answer 5 questions to camera and send that video in, there wasn't a video conference part (at least not for me). After that was a telephone interview, I didn't get any further than that.
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