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I think changing your LinkedIn location to San Francisco Bay area and explaining during the first call you intent to move there when you've found a job is accep
by sytse 8y ago
I think changing your LinkedIn location to San Francisco Bay area and explaining during the first call you intent to move there when you've found a job is acceptable to most companies. BTW we hire in 90% of the world at GitLab
- ajeet_dhaliwal 8y agoI believe you that this is true for GitLab but I’d also imagine many companies getting somewhat pissed off about that disclosure on the first call. Interesting idea though, I may try it in the future just to see what happens.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoOn the contrary, I've seen and heard of a lot of companies that will not hire if you're not in the same city. They specifically say that you need to be in the city for interviews. They get too many applicants fishing for positions when there is no guarantee that the applicant is actually committed to moving.
- sytse 8y agoI can see that colocated companies would require you to fly in for interviews. Maybe some are open to grouping the interviews on the same day.
- dlopezgarsco 8y agoOfftopic: are developers with no ruby experience considered @gitlab? I've been thinking of applying for a long time but have no ruby experience at all.
- sytse 8y agoWe have vancancies for site reliability engineers and Go programmers. We used to hire people without Ruby experience to work on the Ruby codebase but it took significantly longer for them to be effective so we stopped doing that.
- ryandrake 8y agoThe modern equivalent of getting a 408 area code in order to avoid that recruiting filter.