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Question for ammon : What's the time frame for expanding to remote jobs?

Question for other HN readers : How much did you score on the quiz? I scored 10/15 and it shows that I'm better than 50% of engineers i.e I'm somewhere right in the middle. Not very encouraging, but if I brushed up on the graph algorithms, I could have done better.

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The truth is that there's just a lot less demand for remote engineers, and among companies that do hire remote, it's usually for very specialized roles. (There are obviously exceptions.) Looking at our stats, about 5% of the companies we work with are interested in remote engineers. We're not going to expand to remote jobs until we have that number up to a point where we can provide a good experince. I don't have a time-frame, but not in the next 3 months (over the next 3 months we're focused on expanding to other cities)

Re the % scores, they're currently set based on the people we had test the quiz yesterday. May well not have been a representative group! We'll reset them later today.

Follow up question : In your faq, you mentioned that you do not interview candidates who need visa sponsorship. Any plans to change that part?

Unfortunately probably not :( I would love to, but the jobs are just not there. H1Bs are just too hard to get.

What I do hope to do is expand out of the US, and get around the issue that way.

I scored 15/15 (top 3%). I was fortunate enough to already know some Python and to take the quiz after the regex corrections.

I appreciated that the Python questions were not especially Python specific: the reference questions would have been exactly the same if translated 1:1 into Java, Javascript or C#, and none of them tried to trick you with subtle syntax, types or parameter order.

Bonus points for not having joke answers. They're never funny.

13/15, top 25%. My supremely embarrassing errors were both because of not thinking carefully about variable scope for questions 3 and 4. I think the questions were pretty fair even though only a few seemed much applicable to what I need to know or deal with day to day as a developer. I'd guess most people with undergraduate CS degrees could answer all 15 right out of school.

I scored top 3% at 14/15. I had experience with Python so that helped. Honestly I don't think I am in top 3%, since I don't work as sw engineer in real life.

I scored 14/15, messed up on the regular expression question. Good thing I remembered the graph algoritms.

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