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How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Re: How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Post by expertentipp »

softwarelimits wrote: post #38
taway_1212 wrote: post #24

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Unrelated, but in Germany you get unemployment benefits after you quit a job? Wow.

This is one of the most important social networks that exists today and nations all over the world should copy & paste this idea. It is incredible to see how underdeveloped social networks are especially in the US. It starts by reconquering the words of the language we speak.

Bullshit. It's very easy to get kicked out of the system, while one is still required to pay full contributions while employed in Germany. Let's say e.g. one works in Germany for years, moves to another EU country, ends up without a job within couple of months. German benefits are forfeit, that's about it regarding their social security. Money sunk in a black hole.

Re: How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Post by justboxing »

9to5isdead wrote: post #52
justboxing wrote: post #43

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Not trolling, but really curious, how do you propose one demonstrates the following in a very convincing way during the interview? > - You need to demonstrate, without a doubt, that you can/have worked autonomously, that you can/have been self managing in the past Do you simply state your experience of having worked autonomously, or having self-managed? If yes, how would you still stand out, because it's like every o…

Well in my case I put a massive amount of effort into the technical portion of my interview. I was given a week, as they knew how busy I was. I spent a good 8 hours on it, and went above and beyond. Instead of a simple working SPA, I produced a full working system with full UI, REST API, 100% coverage, rolling data import, containerisation and deployment scripts for all services, pseudo-branding, documentation, GitHu…

> , I produced a full working system with full UI, REST API, 100% coverage, rolling data import, containerisation and deployment scripts for all services, pseudo-branding, documentation, GitHub organisation with repo per service, and to top it off, deployed it to a $5 droplet and provided credentials.

In 8 hours that's very impressive. Thank you for your feedback. I wasn't aware that remote companies gave coding assignments, but it makes sense.

Re: How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Post by germanier »

expertentipp wrote: post #61
softwarelimits wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the most important social networks that exists today and nations all over the world should copy & paste this idea. It is incredible to see how underdeveloped social networks are especially in the US. It starts by reconquering the words of the language we speak.

Bullshit. It's very easy to get kicked out of the system, while one is still required to pay full contributions while employed in Germany. Let's say e.g. one works in Germany for years, moves to another EU country, ends up without a job within couple of months. German benefits are forfeit, that's about it regarding their social security. Money sunk in a black hole.

While the system is not perfect, in the scenario you describe times worked in another country can be recognised within the EU (by filling out form E 301).

Re: How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Post by expertentipp »

germanier wrote: post #64
expertentipp wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bullshit. It's very easy to get kicked out of the system, while one is still required to pay full contributions while employed in Germany. Let's say e.g. one works in Germany for years, moves to another EU country, ends up without a job within couple of months. German benefits are forfeit, that's about it regarding their social security. Money sunk in a black hole.

While the system is not perfect, in the scenario you describe times worked in another country can be recognised within the EU (by filling out form E 301).

What if one relocated to a country with very limited social support? Paying the highest (e.g. German) social contributions and getting the lowest (e.g. eastern European) social benefits. It's like getting spat in the face. Thanks.

Re: How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Post by andrewem »

softawre wrote: post #48
jinfiesto wrote: post #11

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This. I work remote currently and my job was not initially a remote position. After about a year of demonstrating the above, I was offered remote as a benefit. So that's something that might also be an option: finding a company that's open to remote work and converting after working in office for some amount of time.

As a tech manager, this has worked really well for me. I have had 5 remote employees. 3 were local first, and all 3 were great. 2 were remote hires and both failed.

I worked at a place where a junior developer announced shortly after starting that he was moving 3 time zones away. The company decided to continue to employ him. It was probably doomed no matter what they did, but they also insisted he work on a VM at the company headquarters, and didn't have him visit the team in person on a regular schedule.

Edit: In this situation, he was hardly local first, given the short time between his hire and his moving far away. All of which is to say I agree with the poster I replied to.

Re: How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Post by nullundefined »

9to5isdead wrote: post #52
justboxing wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not trolling, but really curious, how do you propose one demonstrates the following in a very convincing way during the interview? > - You need to demonstrate, without a doubt, that you can/have worked autonomously, that you can/have been self managing in the past Do you simply state your experience of having worked autonomously, or having self-managed? If yes, how would you still stand out, because it's like every o…

Well in my case I put a massive amount of effort into the technical portion of my interview. I was given a week, as they knew how busy I was. I spent a good 8 hours on it, and went above and beyond. Instead of a simple working SPA, I produced a full working system with full UI, REST API, 100% coverage, rolling data import, containerisation and deployment scripts for all services, pseudo-branding, documentation, GitHu…

From your experience, do most remote interview loops have take home projects like this or do they tend to focus heavily on whiteboard-esque programming challenges?

Re: How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Post by hluska »

kzisme wrote: post #60
deedubaya wrote: post #4

I see a lot of devs trying to convert to remote positions who get frustrated that they haven't landed a job after days/weeks/months. Going remote isn't as easy as what many devs are probably accustomed to, especially if you're new to the game (as the tech hiring market has been :fire:). If you're going to go remote, you need to realize a few things: - You're competing against waaay more candidates. You need to stand…

As an intermediate dev - is it even ~really~ possible to get a remote job then? Assuming all of your demonstrating points are just from previous employment?

What if you built/launched something on your own? It doesn't have to be huge, or even commercial, but being able to demonstrate that you can go from idea to launch by yourself will help.

Re: How to actually get a remote job as an intermediate developer?

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Post by hluska »

petra wrote: post #40
learc83 wrote: post #35

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> But when they go remote, aren't you competing with them? Not really. There aren't many companies who are considering both American and Indian remote developers for the same positions. Well paying remote jobs tend to have time zone constraints, and require better English communication skills than the average Indian developer has (there definitely are Indian developers with excellent communications skills, but they a…

Assuming an Indian coder is a good English communicator, would working the night shift be such a big barrier ,compared to the salary potential ?

In some projects, having a night shift can be a tremendous advantage. It works particular well in extremely agile environments with fast assignment->deployment turnarounds. For example, if the night shift does daily deployments, then the parent does QA during the day and sends fixes/new requests before the start of the night shift.

Other times, particularly if the project has complicated architectural requirements, it's too hard to get the night shift on the same page a super the parent.

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