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From my job searching experience in the last two months, that can not be possibly true, there are some remote positions but they're definitely not 60%, I would
by synergy20 3y ago
From my job searching experience in the last two months, that can not be possibly true, there are some remote positions but they're definitely not 60%, I would say it's about 15% at the best for software and engineering roles.
just do a 'software developer' search on linkedin, it has 156000 jobs, then filter it via 'remote' it drops down to 24400, that's 15%.
- manfre 3y ago"on HN"
- synergy20 3y agojust curious, why the downvote? I like remote and I only do remote, that does not mean 60% is a fact, and fact matters.
- city41 3y agoI upvoted you to help balance a bit. But I think you're being downvoted because that isn't what's being discussed here. The title and article are specifically about HN.
- synergy20 3y agoThanks I was reading too fast indeed and since I am in the market now and I know the number does not match up so I wrote it fast, did not realize it's HN specific. Still a larger sample pool like linkedin might be helpful than HN's data.
- jedberg 3y agoThis article is about a specific job board. Your comment was actually interesting, but the way you worded it was both confrontational and made it off topic. It would have gone better if you said "That's interesting, in the wider job market I've found ..."
- lolinder 3y ago> that can not be possibly true, there are some remote positions but they're definitely not 60% Have you based your job search exclusively on HN's "Who is hiring"? If not, I'm not sure how you can make such strong assertions about the distribution of remote jobs on that specific job board. The article doesn't make any claims about the job market outside that data set.
- smolder 3y agoDifferent venues, different cross-sections of the job market.
- Octoth0rpe 3y ago> I would say it's about 15% at the best for software and engineering roles. I think it's likely that remote jobs get filled much quicker since they by definition have a larger candidate pool. At any one moment in time there may be 4x non-remote jobs posted, but if they take much longer to fill and the ratio stays the same, then 69% remote is very believable.