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It's very hard to get a remote position if you're not a web developer. I tried, and it feels twice easier to get offers at Google or Facebook than to get a dece

It's very hard to get a remote position if you're not a web developer. I tried, and it feels twice easier to get offers at Google or Facebook than to get a decent remote job.

toomuchtodo 10y ago
What sort of position are you looking for? I do DevOps and both orgs and recruiters are constantly reaching out.
- ThePawnBreak 10y ago
  Any development position that doesn't require me to touch Javascript, HTML or CSS (I hate frontend). I am merely a junior, but I do have 4 internships under my belt (Microsoft, Google) and I would say I am quite decent at programming. I am familiar with both low level software (I wrote some C and x86 asm at Microsoft) and high level software (Python and automation at Google), Linux, operating systems, distributed systems, algorithms and data structures, and most things you would expect a good CS graduate to know about. I am Romanian, but I would say my English skills are quite good, so communication shouldn't constitute a problem. I applied to about 30 remote positions and didn't get any interviews. I'm going to leave my country soon for this reason (trying to get a job at Google atm).
  - toomuchtodo 10y ago
    Sorry to hear you're not getting much traction with those remote positions you've applied for. My advice would be to keep trying. Always Be Interviewing; it costs you time, but the reward is enormous. Good luck with Google; if it doesn't work out, here are some resources to use: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job https://remotebase.io/ https://remotebase.io/ https://whereverjobs.com/ https://whereverjobs.com/ https://weworkremotely.com https://weworkremotely.com https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote https://www.wfh.io/ https://www.wfh.io/ http://jobmote.com/ http://jobmote.com/

It's very hard to get a remote position if you're not a web developer. I tried, and it feels twice easier to get offers at Google or Facebook than to get a decent remote job.

toomuchtodo 10y ago

What sort of position are you looking for? I do DevOps and both orgs and recruiters are constantly reaching out.

ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Any development position that doesn't require me to touch Javascript, HTML or CSS (I hate frontend). I am merely a junior, but I do have 4 internships under my belt (Microsoft, Google) and I would say I am quite decent at programming. I am familiar with both low level software (I wrote some C and x86 asm at Microsoft) and high level software (Python and automation at Google), Linux, operating systems, distributed systems, algorithms and data structures, and most things you would expect a good CS graduate to know about. I am Romanian, but I would say my English skills are quite good, so communication shouldn't constitute a problem. I applied to about 30 remote positions and didn't get any interviews. I'm going to leave my country soon for this reason (trying to get a job at Google atm).
- toomuchtodo 10y ago
  Sorry to hear you're not getting much traction with those remote positions you've applied for. My advice would be to keep trying. Always Be Interviewing; it costs you time, but the reward is enormous. Good luck with Google; if it doesn't work out, here are some resources to use: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job https://remotebase.io/ https://remotebase.io/ https://whereverjobs.com/ https://whereverjobs.com/ https://weworkremotely.com https://weworkremotely.com https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote https://www.wfh.io/ https://www.wfh.io/ http://jobmote.com/ http://jobmote.com/