Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

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Post by Lior539 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 10:25 AM UTC

Hi folks. Remote Rocketship is my side project that searches the internet for remote jobs.

A dev friend of mine in South Africa was recently searching for a remote job and was complaining how most companies will only hire you if you're based in certain countries. So I ended up putting together this list of companies that I found that don't care where you're based.

I hope it's useful!

Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world
remoterocketship.com

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#2

Post by niel » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 10:50 AM UTC

> I hope it's useful!

It is, thanks!

Are you taking submissions? Sourcegraph hires anywhere.

All-remote: https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/company-info-and-process/re...

Team bios with locations: https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/team/

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#3

Post by Existenceblinks » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 11:40 AM UTC

Yeah the current "remote" really really sucks and sounds like snake-oil. It also give wrong stat when reading online comments. Many people that said it's easy for them often came from people live in the same city and country as those companies. "Remote" by default gives an impression that's it's global.

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#4

Post by Lior539 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 11:53 AM UTC

niel wrote: post #2

> I hope it's useful! It is, thanks! Are you taking submissions? Sourcegraph hires anywhere. All-remote: https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/company-info-and-process/re... Team bios with locations: https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/team/

Good to know! I had a look and actually my job board already has Sourcegraph jobs (I scrape jobs from all over the internet) - https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/sourcegraph

However, they were all classified as hiring in the US only. The reason is that the location is listed as "Remote". I used to classify "Remote" as "Anywhere in the world", however I found that many US companies tend to list the location as "Remote" but are only hiring for people based in the US (Companies in other countries will always include the country in the location field e.g. "Remote - UK"). Hence now I only classify the hiring location as "Worldwide" if the location field includes phrases such as "Worldwide" or "Anywhere in the world" etc.

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Post by jleyank » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 12:55 PM UTC

Do they hire you as employees or as contractors? I would assume the latter as unless they already have a nexus in your country there’s a whole lotta hassle for a single employee. Or is it, say, eu hiring within the eu, etc?

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#6

Post by k__ » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:30 PM UTC

Existenceblinks wrote: post #3

Yeah the current "remote" really really sucks and sounds like snake-oil. It also give wrong stat when reading online comments. Many people that said it's easy for them often came from people live in the same city and country as those companies. "Remote" by default gives an impression that's it's global.

Why should remote mean global?

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Post by jkukul » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:41 PM UTC

jleyank wrote: post #5

Do they hire you as employees or as contractors? I would assume the latter as unless they already have a nexus in your country there’s a whole lotta hassle for a single employee. Or is it, say, eu hiring within the eu, etc?

Many of them hire you as a contractor, of course. However, I noticed that more and more companies use an "HR as a service" (e.g. deel.com) to act as an intermediary who has an official branch in most countries and takes care of all the formalities for you.

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Post by wojcikstefan » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:42 PM UTC

The YC company I work at (and have been happy working at for the last 11 years) is hiring remotely, anywhere in the time zones of Americas, Europe, and Africa: https://jobs.close.com

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#9

Post by officialchicken » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #6

Existenceblinks wrote: post #3

Yeah the current "remote" really really sucks and sounds like snake-oil. It also give wrong stat when reading online comments. Many people that said it's easy for them often came from people live in the same city and country as those companies. "Remote" by default gives an impression that's it's global.

Why should remote mean global?

"Know your customer" ... these are jobs on the internet, building the internet, for users on the internet. And because the internet is global.

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Post by electroly » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:51 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #6

Existenceblinks wrote: post #3

Yeah the current "remote" really really sucks and sounds like snake-oil. It also give wrong stat when reading online comments. Many people that said it's easy for them often came from people live in the same city and country as those companies. "Remote" by default gives an impression that's it's global.

Why should remote mean global?

"Should" is a loaded word that I won't address, but commonly "work from home" is the term used when you're still located near the office, vs. "remote" which is where you're nowhere near an office.