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If more startups allowed remote workers, would the salaries of developers fall in the bay area?
I currently work remote for IBM Watson and I love it - I'm more productive, have more time to spend with my family, etc. My team and my direct manager are fantastic. I've worked remote before, and led remote teams with good results, but this has been my best experience yet. However, my position is in peril due to management changes a few rungs up the ladder. While the previous guy in charge of Watson wanted the best…
I currently work remote for IBM Watson and I love it - I'm more productive, have more time to spend with my family, etc. My team and my direct manager are fantastic. I've worked remote before, and led remote teams with good results, but this has been my best experience yet. However, my position is in peril due to management changes a few rungs up the ladder. While the previous guy in charge of Watson wanted the best…
and everyone set your timezone on your computer and phone to UTC 24. You now have a standard 0-23 based incrementing integer to know what hour of the day it is globally. Force everyone to do this and get rid of the notion of my time or your time and when an integer means daylight or nighttime. It's abritrary that 23 means 11pm and nighttime. It doesn't. It just means 23.
and everyone set your timezone on your computer and phone to UTC 24. You now have a standard 0-23 based incrementing integer to know what hour of the day it is globally. Force everyone to do this and get rid of the notion of my time or your time and when an integer means daylight or nighttime. It's abritrary that 23 means 11pm and nighttime. It doesn't. It just means 23.
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Possibly, if it were large enough scale to truly impact the supply of labor at a sufficiently lower price point to matter. There are a variety of remote work arrangements: 1) local employees who have employers with liberal work-from-home policies (they're "remote" when they don't commute in), 2) employees who are always remote, but still in-state (located in the same state as the employer), 3) employees who are alway…
The last two in my experience are handled by treating the remote employees as effectively contractors. They'll incorporate as an independent company, and then bill themselves out for whatever salary they're on, taking on responsibility for their own taxes and other requirements.
I've made a career out of remote work (10+ years working remotely), and I have to say this is a pretty poor article. No, remote work is not for everyone, you need to know what you are doing at both ends or it'll not match your expectations. No, it does not (necessarily) bring the best global talent, specially not if your motivation for remote is bringing down costs. And no, you don't need to use any of the tools list…
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Playing devil's advocate, there are definitely entirely legitimate reasons one might fail a "culture-fit" interview, especially for a remote hire: Perhaps you weren't so much "not-like-us" as "you kids don't know shit, just wait until you hire me" (your comment does come off slightly condescending) or just generally as someone who'd struggle being outranked by someone 10 years your junior (I understand mid-western va…
If you're going to reject people for "culture fit", and not because of any technical deficiency, then I believe you should lose any right to complain about a so-called "shortage of talent".
Several months ago I interviewed for a remote position with a startup based in NYC. The technical screening consisted of a project and of course a couple of phone interviews. After I did well on all of that, I was flown up to NYC for a 'culture-fit' interview. Which I failed, apparently. As a mid-30s guy who was raised in the mid-west, I felt like I had very little in common with the 20-something urbanites with whom…
Playing devil's advocate, there are definitely entirely legitimate reasons one might fail a "culture-fit" interview, especially for a remote hire: Perhaps you weren't so much "not-like-us" as "you kids don't know shit, just wait until you hire me" (your comment does come off slightly condescending) or just generally as someone who'd struggle being outranked by someone 10 years your junior (I understand mid-western va…
I spent the last 7 years working remotely. Never been a problem. The way I see it personally, is that I would pay to work at home. The money I save on transport, the time, the dinners, clothes, forced social activities. Not having to stand in the rain for half a year, late trains, queues, peoples annoying faces..... The list of positives = endless