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I'm not a dev per se (I'm a sysadmin), but I perfectly know how it feels ...

I didn't graduate from a uni either, and always get passed. But that was years ago. I'm lucky to have the recent two companies I work with are awesome.

I hope these will help you out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/railsjobs

http://www.cybercoders.com/jobs/ruby-on-rails-developer-remo...

http://www.indeed.com/q-Ruby-On-Rails-Developer-Work-Remotel...

https://weworkremotely.com/

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Being in the US helps a lot for those remote jobs. Many "remote" companies only want people in US timezones.

As an expat, this has been very frustrating for me recently since it excludes seemingly 75%+ of remote positions. I went from generating tens of millions of dollars of revenue for startups to being unable to get a reply from startups when applying for their remote positions.

The "being unable to get a reply from startups when applying for their remote positions" part is 100% true. I'm in such a position now and it's amazing how many companies complain about there being not enough good programmers and at the same time don't do a basic courtesy of responding to their candidates.

> it's amazing how many companies complain about there being not enough good programmers

I've heard this complaint before; it's absolutely ridiculous. You can get plenty of developers for nearly any technology as long as you stop offering pathetic wages. It's a seller's market, deal with it.

It hits close to home, too, because you'll see YC-funded startups posting the same job ad on HN for months. One I saw repeatedly was even for a "founding" engineer or something similar. Literally what are you doing on a daily basis if you don't have your initial engineer(s)?

Thanks very much. I just filled out an application on weworkremotely and in the meantime this post just blew up...

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