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> It's not like any random software developer can go remote and compete with the rest of the world This is actually becoming more and more of an option. At m
by sbarre 6y ago
> It's not like any random software developer can go remote and compete with the rest of the world
This is actually becoming more and more of an option. At my last (small) company, we hired several individual remote developers from various parts of the world that most would consider "third world".
We were introduced to them via referrals from contract work done elsewhere, and we did a paid trial period at first.
Not all of them worked out, but the ones that did were quite good, and we were paying them an excellent wage for their cost of living.
- seanwilson 6y ago> > It's not like any random software developer can go remote and compete with the rest of the world > This is actually becoming more and more of an option. To do this though, you generally have to know how to market yourself, put together proposals, gather requirements, design and project manage, on top of coding. Not every coder is good at this or wants to be.
- sbarre 6y agoThis is not necessarily true. In a large enough organization you can have a lot of that done for you, and you just basically "pull tickets" (to be reductive about it) and deliver the work. You have to be able to interview well of course, but do design and project management? I'm not talking about a freelancer who delivers an end-to-end project here, I'm talking about hiring a remote developer to join an existing team and deliver features.