> 100% remote - work from wherever you want
> $91,476 - The salary of an entry-level front-end developer
These two things should not be next to each other. It's exceptionally rare to get $90k a year remotely with no prior work experience.
> $91,476 - The salary of an entry-level front-end developer
These two things should not be next to each other. It's exceptionally rare to get $90k a year remotely with no prior work experience.
In the metro Boston area, fresh college grads are getting $100K+bonus typically, with upside from there. I think $91K is not at all unrealistic.
FAANG are recruiting high-level programmers, not people hooking up forms to APIs.
Out of interest, what would you say are the key weaknesses at your company that makes successfully hiring, training and managing juniors for remote roles impossible?
Faulty premise. I would say that it's simply not worth the risk for someone with essentially no way to show they can actually do the work and manage themselves.
> someone with essentially no way to show they can actually do the work and manage themselves.
Two quick follow up points on that (the second point is more important)...
1. Junior devs graduating from places like this and Lambda School will have spent months learning, collaborating and working remotely as part of their course. I wouldn't say that counts as proof that they can do the work per se, but it's definitely proof that - if they can do they work - they can do it remotely.
2. You have the same challenges with non-remote hires as well... What part of your hiring/onboarding/management process requires you to be able to physically touch the junior dev in question?
BTW I absolutely don't think all companies should hire remote.
And I don't think all junior devs would be good remote hires. Far from it.
But there are enough successful companies out there hiring remote junior devs to prove that it is possible.
So when someone says they would never hire a remote junior dev, it just seems silly to me to pretend that's anything more than a company masking serious hiring, training or culture problems which remote work would expose...