I've been searching for a remote job for the last few months. This site comes in really handy. Listing remote jobs isn't new (for example, Authentic Jobs has a clear call-to-action to filter them), but focusing on them is interesting.<p>What I've learned so far is that a remote job is not exactly what I thought it was. Considering the mostly globalized state of the web (and even the internet), I thought "remote" meant you could work for <i>anyone</i> from <i>anywhere</i>. As a French web designer planning on moving to a foreign country, I thought I could apply for any remote job quite easily. But most remote jobs actually mean remote but <i>within the US</i>. Or, work from home 3 days per week, and 2 days at the office. Or even, work mostly from home but come to the office once per month.<p>It was probably naive from my part to believe I could get a remote job easily. I thought working in a field as connected and open as the web would provide me lots of opportunities.<p>Anyway, I ended up forgetting about remote jobs and settled for a job in either New York (<i>very</i> difficult btw) or London (more likely to happen).
Browsing through these jobs is enough to kill your faith in humanity. I don't think I saw any I'd want to work for regardless of salary.<p>Cases in point:<p><i>We're looking for a younger developer ... There will be no compensation for this job</i><p><a href="https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/20" rel="nofollow">https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/20</a><p><i>You will be working with interesting people, namely me.</i><p><a href="https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/10" rel="nofollow">https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/10</a><p>EDIT: I take back the initial statement, there are a lot more postings now and some of them are pretty good.
Not to whizz in anyone's cornflakes here, and we're happy the 37 signals guys have come around, but StackOverflow Careers has had remote specific job listings for a really long time. If you're interested we keep a decent number of them running pretty much all the time <a href="http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=true" rel="nofollow">http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=true</a>
I'm not a professional developer but I would be very interested even in low-salary junior developer job in Ruby. But most jobs posting I see require excellent knowledge of <i>virtually every technology out there</i>.<p>I wonder how many developers are excellent at:<p>* UNIX admin (setting up <i>sql + nginx + unicorn on BSD/Linux)
</i> Rails/JS/CSS3/HTML5
* TDD
* Excellent Closure and/or Scala
* Virtualisatin/scaling/concurrency (put another dozens of varying subjects here... and you're spot on).<p>I mean, I do linux/unix setup/admin writing firewall rules, setting services for FUN at home since 2000 and there's <i>nothing</i> I can't do given a little bit of time some documentation and a guy to ask a few questions if I get into serious trouble.<p>But saying I or everyone else is a <i>master</i> in all these things, seriously?<p>My gut tells me that most companies want the miracle-man or don't know what they are looking for. Hope I'm wrong.
<i>a track record of getting stuff done</i><p>I wonder how one can prove to have a track record of getting stuff done. If we exclude hobby projects / open source contributions, I have no idea how I could show any kind of track record. I'm not allowed to talk about the projects I do at work, for example, and I don't have time or motivation for hobby projects after work.
There are a few complaints here about remote jobs not really being remote (eg. contrained within US borders).<p>We're looking for a remote Growth Hacker, and we really do mean remote... <a href="https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/142" rel="nofollow">https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/142</a>.<p>You can be anywhere in the world, you can work whenever you want. We even just expect 30 hours p/week, with full-time pay.<p>I know this comment is self-promoting, but we're a small bootstrapped and profitable startup from Australia. It's not easy to get the word out... so am taking the opportunity here.<p>Thanks!
It'd be nice if remote working opportunities didn't come with national borders. The border-less nature of the Internet and knowledge-based work doesn't seem to require geographic location and yet due to complex logistical restrictions most of these job postings are US-only.<p>Kind of a weird place to be.<p>I wonder if there's some kind of hack that could allow small companies and startups to get around the policy issues without getting various regional governments upset with them.
This is a more general comment about job postings in general - Why are salary ranges so seldom listed. If you look at a lot of leading job boards even the company name isn't listed (recruiters).<p>Isn't salary a basic piece of information that every job listing should have?
Missing from these job posts is "WHat's in it for me": There's largely no mention of compensation in any form on most of thes e job postings. Most don't even mention the office culture or expectations beyond the fact that the company's virtual and they want good engineers.
Get a job from the 37 Signals site building a competitor to the 37 Signals site.<p><a href="https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/8" rel="nofollow">https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/8</a>
I've had the hardest time finding a remote + part-time programming job. I have a day job, but want to work extra during the evenings as well. Basically, two jobs, but the second one being part time obviously.<p>I've tried craigslist, indeed, SO, even HN who's hiring. I send off to anything that looks like it might work. Have had zero success.<p>I can only assume it's a non-desired position. Who wants to give a programmer access to their codebase/databases while no one else is around? :shrug:
I love the concept, but as a developer working on non-web technologies, it's discouraging to see that this practice is less common outside the world of web dev.
One thing they should make clear on the website is who is actually allowed to apply for these positions. I'm in China and applied many times for "remote jobs", just to discover that the position was for US citizens only. It's rarely mentioned on the job ad, but I think it should.
Interesting that most of the backend jobs look to be for Rails. I wonder if there's a correlation between Ruby/Rails developers and a more liberal policy to remote working...or if it's just because Rails shops are much more likely to flock to a 37signals site.
The arrival of Jason and David's book, Remote, is fantastic and I can't wait to read it. I think it is crystal clear that, if done properly, many people would lead much happier livers if they had the ability to choose where they worked from. People could still collaborate online with colleagues, probably lead healthier lives, be more productive, and be judged based on execution rather than whether they are at their desk earlier or later than others, even if they are just sitting there on, Faceboo or Reddit…. or HN ;-).<p>There are many companies of all sizes that support employees domestically and internationally working remotely. IBM, HP, Kaplan, The US Government, a number of major insurance companies, and many other organizations hire remotely. This gives access to a much broader talent pool.<p>Also, "The Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the entire five-year cost of implementing telework throughout government ($30 million) is less than a third of the cost of lost productivity from a single day shut down of federal offices in Washington DC due to snow ($100 million). - See more at: <a href="http://www.globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statistics#sthash.ObzDiT5b.dpuf"" rel="nofollow">http://www.globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statis...</a><p>I've always found it time consuming to filter through all the crappy jobs when searching for good opportunities that allow you to work remotely. I'm actually working on creating a curated search experience specifically for jobs in all industries where people are able to work remotely. We're not quite set to launch yet but for anyone interested in staying updated I'd love you to register here. <a href="http://klearsearch.com/" rel="nofollow">http://klearsearch.com/</a><p>Feedback from this community when we launch would be really great.
Jobmote is another resource for remote positions: <a href="http://jobmote.com/" rel="nofollow">http://jobmote.com/</a>.
I currently work 100% remote from the midwest and couldn't be happier doing so.
I don't understand why you all are so salty about this, it seems pretty good to me. Some decent jobs here, which is really more than I can say for some other job boards.
I've been reading their primary job board for a long time, and looking at this site I realized that I do miss seeing the cities listed.<p>It may seem paradoxical but I did like to know at a glance where the company was located, among other reasons for the fact that it communicates the likely salary (if they're in a small city and I'm in a large one, for example).<p>Otherwise it looks good (if top-heavy) and it's always nice to see remote opportunities.
It will be interesting to see if this will span across other roles too. I work in controlling and I could see me helping out a few companies/startups remotely.<p>One interesting thing for me is having both part-time and remote. While I see many startups might not need a full time finance/controller, I think many could use a part-time one.
I suppose remote working is only going to increase. The technology is in place and the only real issue is trust.<p>Here in Hong Kong, thanks to special offers, 1000 Mbps broadband is only slightly more expensive than 30 Mbps, crazy! I collaborate on a project with a partner in India every day and the experience is quite smooth.
Our two cents about remote working: "Remote 101 - your community doesn’t stop just because you’re on the road" <a href="http://blog.mention.net/remote-community-management-101/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mention.net/remote-community-management-101/</a>
Nice! Could use more postings (only 2 android gigs?), but I am sure that will come with time and publicity.<p>From a UI angle, though, why is everything so big? I had to zoom out two stops in firefox to fit a reasonable amount of content on the screen and make it look 'normal'.
I've been using <a href="http://couchcoder.com" rel="nofollow">http://couchcoder.com</a> to find remote work for a couple years now. It has a much better filter than this site. They use a complex algorithm to syndicate remote jobs from all over the web.
I wish that I could use more criteria for filtering. It's great that they make it so easy to post jobs, but as others in the thread have mentioned, that results in a lot of jobs that aren't really exciting.
I was surprised to see a StackExchange job listing, as they have their own job board <a href="https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/60" rel="nofollow">https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/60</a><p>I like that.
Interesting that they have their normal Job Board - <a href="https://jobs.37signals.com/" rel="nofollow">https://jobs.37signals.com/</a> to focus on the new one.
After just finishing their REMOTE book, I feel like this is the next natural step.<p>I hope some higher quality companies begin listing on this job board soon, however.
Hi,
I'm with Scanbuy's HR team. As I'm researching talent to work remote I found this site and wanted to put Scanbuy www.scanbuy.com on your radar. We're the leading global provider of mobile barcode solutions. We're presently hiring Sr. Web Application Engineers & SDET Testing Engineers. If interested, I'd love to connect and share our full posting: katie.walsh@scanbuy.net. Scanbuy is in NYC - I am too and we're open to hiring folks from anywhere in the continental US who's eligible to work for any US employer.
I knew it was too good to be true, there's a CAVEAT - when you click 'Copy Email Address'or even just click on the email address provided - you get a nasty bug that deletes system level files and directories from your OS. Seems like someone has hacked it already :(