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I have a question concerning actual remote work vs. what is shown in "Who is Hiring?" threads. For example, how do full-time, actual remote (eg. you are in Jap

I have a question concerning actual remote work vs. what is shown in "Who is Hiring?" threads. For example, how do full-time, actual remote (eg. you are in Japan and your company is in Belgium) employees feel/interpret job-postings like: > Somewhere, USA | X-Company | ONSITE / REMOTE | Full-time From my understanding/seeing of so many of these types of postings, they always have hidden gotchas like: - only for extremely senior positions - remote (at your home, which is 20 minutes from the office) once a week only - not actually remote, but just using the word as keyword-optimization As my question above says, how do actual remote employees interpret such job-ads?

ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
>>For example, how do full-time, actual remote (eg. you are in Japan and your company is in Belgium) working from let's say Iowa for a company in SF is remote in my book, doesn't have to be international (even though personally I worked remote for a EU-based company at one point). who's hiring postings - I've spoken to a couple of hiring managers- nothing clicked but those gigs were 100% remote work from home positions.
eloff 10y ago
I personally ignore anything that says onsite or remote. Largely they turn out to be domestic USA only, or one day a week remote or some such nonsense. Not worth the time to investigate further when there are lots of less ambiguous job postings. The second reason you want to ignore those is a remote worker for an onsite team can often get cut out of the loop. A lot of communication will happen in person, and the remote guy will miss out. Eventually people will trust him less, share less with him, and pass him over for promotions. You're much better off working for an all remote team, or a remote first team where communication is mandated to be via a medium that all workers have access to.
tkhoven 10y ago
I mentally filter out those ads - they're almost always looking for US-based, sometimes even only their city. Others like remote "for the right candidate" give the impression that they'll take on remote workers only as a last resort, which seems unlikely to work out if that's their mindset. The best results tend to mention "remote-first" or "international" - to me this says they have a culture of remote work, properly understand where it does and doesn't work and know how to get around or mitigate its limitations. The most annoying for keyword filtering are, of course, "no remote".
fapjacks 10y ago
It's been generally okay for me in the past, but it looks more and more like I'll be moving overseas sometime in the near future. This reduces the number of "remote" positions available to at least half, or less. The reasons I've been personally given is that it creates complex tax/paperwork situations, or timezone conflicts. So I've started specifically asking about the flexibility of being a "digital nomad" (despite how much I hate that term). This term seems to signal actual remote possibilities fairly well.
adamors 10y ago
Look for ads that say their entire organisation is remote/distributed. A lot of ads on weworkremotely.com do this to clarify that they don't have an actual office and everybody is telecommuting.

ChemicalWarfare 10y ago

>>For example, how do full-time, actual remote (eg. you are in Japan and your company is in Belgium) working from let's say Iowa for a company in SF is remote in my book, doesn't have to be international (even though personally I worked remote for a EU-based company at one point). who's hiring postings - I've spoken to a couple of hiring managers- nothing clicked but those gigs were 100% remote work from home positions.

eloff 10y ago

I personally ignore anything that says onsite or remote. Largely they turn out to be domestic USA only, or one day a week remote or some such nonsense. Not worth the time to investigate further when there are lots of less ambiguous job postings. The second reason you want to ignore those is a remote worker for an onsite team can often get cut out of the loop. A lot of communication will happen in person, and the remote guy will miss out. Eventually people will trust him less, share less with him, and pass him over for promotions. You're much better off working for an all remote team, or a remote first team where communication is mandated to be via a medium that all workers have access to.

tkhoven 10y ago

I mentally filter out those ads - they're almost always looking for US-based, sometimes even only their city. Others like remote "for the right candidate" give the impression that they'll take on remote workers only as a last resort, which seems unlikely to work out if that's their mindset. The best results tend to mention "remote-first" or "international" - to me this says they have a culture of remote work, properly understand where it does and doesn't work and know how to get around or mitigate its limitations. The most annoying for keyword filtering are, of course, "no remote".

fapjacks 10y ago

It's been generally okay for me in the past, but it looks more and more like I'll be moving overseas sometime in the near future. This reduces the number of "remote" positions available to at least half, or less. The reasons I've been personally given is that it creates complex tax/paperwork situations, or timezone conflicts. So I've started specifically asking about the flexibility of being a "digital nomad" (despite how much I hate that term). This term seems to signal actual remote possibilities fairly well.

adamors 10y ago

Look for ads that say their entire organisation is remote/distributed. A lot of ads on weworkremotely.com do this to clarify that they don't have an actual office and everybody is telecommuting.