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Remote-first companies that actively hire
- xyzzy_plugh 5y ago> Basecamp ... a company that offers 100% remote jobs, their employees are scattered across 32 cities in different time zones. I'm guessing this is no longer accurate.
- WJW 5y agoOnly 30% left and they were about 60 people before that, so it might still be true. It's likely that it's only about 22 cities now though.
- fifiriej 5y agoThey are likely hiring though
- alephnan 5y agoContext ?
- Sebguer 5y agoA third of the company recently quit: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hand...
- Etheryte 5y agoWhile factually correct, I think it helps to highlight that Basecamp was a company of about 60 people at that point. Without commenting on the clash that lead to this, it is a big difference whether 30% of people left at a company of a few dozen or a company of thousands.
- Sebguer 5y agoRight, but in this case, the smaller size of the company means that it's even more likely that the earlier stat is no longer true.
- periheli0n 5y agoI wonder how this works tax- and social security-wise. Normally, the employer must pay social security in the country where the employee is physically located. Also the employer must adhere to any employment laws for that country. At least that’s what HR tells me in my current job, as a reason why they won’t let me go full remote. Are they right? How are full-remote companies handling this? Edit: Context is EU/UK.
- matthewowen 5y agoA lot of remote first companies constrain themselves to certain countries. I don't consider that a contradiction: they're still remote first, they're still distributed, they just have _some_ constraint within that. Beyond that, it's not uncommon for remote first companies to "hire" people as independent contractors as workaround to these problems.
- ghaff 5y agoMitchell Hashimoto has written about this. Think there's at least a comment on HN somewhere but don't immediately find. Basically especially spanning countries there are a lot of considerations and you almost certainly can't just work wherever you want--especially as a full-time employee.
- i_have_an_idea 5y agoIt's a half-truth. Yes, for you to be an employee, they must do all of that. However, in practice, a remote worker can move anywhere, create a company (in the country where they live), send invoices and get paid. The catch is you need to take care of more taxes and admin work and there are none of the employee protections. You're essentially providing B2B services. So, there are no legal issues for your old employer, as long as you're comfortable with that. It's mostly that employers would rather own you, as that gives them certain rights and benefits vs. just purchasing services from a contracting firm.
- periheli0n 5y agoThanks! In my case it would indeed be difficult to work as a service-provider, since some of the income streams I generate require that I have a permanent employment contract with my employer.
- boogerlad 5y agoI wonder if any of these companies would be interested in paying Monero and just avoiding taxes entirely. Taxes are such a huge headache for both parties. Of course it's illegal, but hard to trace if done right. I think it would be worth being exposed to a wider variety of talent.
- odiroot 5y agoBusinesses, even private cannot just leak money/assets without explanation.
- Throwaway_xmr 5y agoHow would you convert monero back to fiat without alerting your bank?(converting to fiat is also necessary cause you can't pay your veggie bills in monero). Any deposit to your bank would easily raise suspicion. Monero to cash is possible but its more difficult to arrange and chances of honeypot are more.
- theli0nheart 5y agoHeap¹ is virtual-first and actively hiring (not to mention, scaling like crazy). I have colleagues in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. We have an excellent engineering culture and need more hands on deck. :) Hit me up (email in profile) if any of the roles listed here² look interesting to you. ¹ https://heap.io/ https://heap.io/ ² https://grnh.se/d7ce9bfc1us https://grnh.se/d7ce9bfc1us
- soneca 5y agoYou mention Asia and Australia, but all the remote engineering roles are ”anywhere in the US”
- zoover2020 5y ago+1, I was all sols on the company but then remote roles are US specific :(. Any plans for EU remote roles?
- theli0nheart 5y agoWe have several teams where the majority of engineers live in Europe and/or Australia. If you apply through the generalist loop and we're a mutual fit, we will make it work. :)
- timClicks 5y agoCanonical is another company that has been remote-first since it was formed in 2004.
- Sebguer 5y agoOdd not to see DigitalOcean on this list, given at least when I left (before covid), remote was ~55% of the company and very much a first-class citizen. They certainly are actively hiring at much higher rates than most of the companies on this list.
- LeonenTheDK 5y agoCan you elaborate a bit on how they facilitated remote workers being first class citizens? I'll be in a similar position soon but would like to see some things I and the company could do to not alienate me and the other remote members.
- Sebguer 5y ago1) An office that was well-constructed to support remotes connecting in. It can be surprisingly challenging to ensure a positive experience for partially remote meetings, and this wasn't consistently perfect, but the effort was put in. 2) Having people team members who were fully focused on 'remote experience', and ensuring that perks for in-office folks had comparable events and such for remotes. 3) ~Almost all roles being eligible for remote. There were a few organizational exceptions outside of eng, but for the most part any team could hire remotely with fairly little friction. Really, it was a learning experience over time, and it requires intentional effort to be a 50/50 company, but despite some other flaws, DigitalOcean was ~generally good at this while I was there.
- AYBABTME 5y agoBack when I was there, DO was the best of both world. I'd work remotely 95% of the time, with most of my teammates remote. Then I could visit the NYC office multiple times a year and hangout in the random desks of the offices, or just hangout with the "onsite" people (who were also very much almost remote and showing up in the office for fun, it seems). Never had a problem with feeling out of touch due to being remote: everything that gets done is online, from my experience. It was maybe 55% remote but the _experience_ was more like if the company was fully remote.
- auslegung 5y ago1Password is remote-first. We do have 2 office buildings but even the headquarters has less than 20 people in it on a given day. During COVID I’m pretty sure that number has gotten even lower. I’m not even in the same country so I’m never in :) And yes we’re hiring a lot https://jobs.lever.co/1password https://jobs.lever.co/1password
- calferreira 5y agoFull Stack Developer - Insights REMOTE (US, UK OR CANADA) So, only those three countries right ?
- auslegung 5y agoWe have lots of people outside those countries. If you or anyone else is interested but live outside those countries I encourage you to apply anyway. I think that restriction is listed because we only have business entities in those countries so if you’re outside them you’d be a contractor. Almost all of us used to be contractors and we weren’t treated as second class so being a contractor here isn’t a bad thing like it can be elsewhere.
- calferreira 5y agoPortugal here :) Thanks for that!
- AYBABTME 5y agoThese lists need an asterisk for companies that do location based pay, so we know to ignore them.