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Kind of off topic, but I'm curious how difficult it is to get remote (non-contract) development Jobs these days? I'm not currently on the Job market, but in a c

Kind of off topic, but I'm curious how difficult it is to get remote (non-contract) development Jobs these days? I'm not currently on the Job market, but in a couple of years, I plan to move back to the place I was born, and there are not many, if any, great companies to work with there for a software developer. I guess what it boils down to me wondering if it is easy or hard to find remote development positions and going forward is it becoming easier to find remote positions as a software developer.

dhyasama 16y ago
I'm going to be working remotely for the next year. I currently go into the office in the morning and work from home in the afternoon. A couple weeks ago I asked my manager if I could work from New York for a year and he said sure. I've been at the same place for almost five years now, in large part because of stuff like this. They know me and trust I'll do my job. It would probably be much more difficult to get a setup like this right off the bat.
alain94040 16y ago
Very easy. The trick is to become irreplaceable at your current work, and then tell them you are moving and willing to negotiate. But if you don't follow those steps, it's very hard.
JoeAltmaier 16y ago
We do consulting on dirty programming jobs. We have more work than we can handle, all of it remote. E.g. we do much of the heavy lifting on Teamspace (see sococo.net). It took 25 years of working in and around Silicon Valley, until we can call on lots of folks with a personal reference. That got us started, but now we (3 guys) get cold calls from time to time as well.
clueless123 16y ago
Unless you already have a relationship with the employer, is a big pain in the butt.. the amount of noise vs signal in the web job market is enough to discourage anyone.
mgrouchy 16y ago
So from the responses, it seems like the idea is that you need to convince your current employeer that you want to work remotely. That certainly seems like a good option, just not so good when you are trying to switch companies. Thanks for the feedback guys, hopefully this will sort itself out in the next couple of years(when it actually becomes an issue)!

dhyasama 16y ago

I'm going to be working remotely for the next year. I currently go into the office in the morning and work from home in the afternoon. A couple weeks ago I asked my manager if I could work from New York for a year and he said sure. I've been at the same place for almost five years now, in large part because of stuff like this. They know me and trust I'll do my job. It would probably be much more difficult to get a setup like this right off the bat.

alain94040 16y ago

Very easy. The trick is to become irreplaceable at your current work, and then tell them you are moving and willing to negotiate. But if you don't follow those steps, it's very hard.

JoeAltmaier 16y ago

We do consulting on dirty programming jobs. We have more work than we can handle, all of it remote. E.g. we do much of the heavy lifting on Teamspace (see sococo.net). It took 25 years of working in and around Silicon Valley, until we can call on lots of folks with a personal reference. That got us started, but now we (3 guys) get cold calls from time to time as well.

clueless123 16y ago

Unless you already have a relationship with the employer, is a big pain in the butt.. the amount of noise vs signal in the web job market is enough to discourage anyone.

mgrouchy 16y ago

So from the responses, it seems like the idea is that you need to convince your current employeer that you want to work remotely. That certainly seems like a good option, just not so good when you are trying to switch companies. Thanks for the feedback guys, hopefully this will sort itself out in the next couple of years(when it actually becomes an issue)!