remotefriendly.com
I've designed the site based on what I wanted a couple of years ago when I had been looking for a remote job. It's very early and any feedback is appreciated.
I've also used this opportunity to reduce some of that front-end framework fatigue by using just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Edit: I'll add location and salary filters as soon as I wake up tomorrow
- remote definition plus remote where? Not everyone is US based. Timezones may be important
- salary currency, benefits, rays, bonus, etc. Salary based on geo or wherever you are?
- tell me about culture without a team ping pong photo
- why is the company worth applying to, what's the growth rate and funding, how long in business
- leadership info and views they share, this often leads to company policies. Have they built successful companies before?
- is this position urgent or just a casual fill when needed
EU's salary ranges aren't so far; they can hire from the cheaper EU countries as well. Commuting between EU countries is also relatively easy when necessary.
Australia has a large pay gap and probably hires outside the country a lot more compared to other countries in the world. But they're a much smaller tech employer than the US.
For a lot of the other points, employers are incentivized against candor, especially in a public posting. They're trying to attract the best workers at the lowest price. You're not gonna get the unvarnished truth.
Getting a good sense of a job/team/leadership seems to require informal conversations with key people in a context where they'll have something to gain from being candid. Maybe you get that when you're approaching the offer letter stage of an employer's recruiting funnel. How might you get it as a part-time job board maintainer?
- Tech Stack - as searchable data, with "mandatory" requirements included. "Senior Software Engineer" means nothing if it's in a language I have never worked as a senior with, and just wastes everyones time (and also for some reason they put these requirements at the end of the descriptions).
One thing you might want to look into is adding Structured Data [2] for job postings. Doing so "makes your job postings eligible to appear in a special user experience in Google Search results". It could help you reach more people.
[2] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...
Aside from that, there's an emerging trend that I think is both really cool and will end up being the default way most people are paid. That trend is "payment streaming". Products like Superfluid [1] let you stream cryptocurrency payments. Staff could be paid in realtime rather than waiting to receive a monthly paycheck. That will prove really compelling for prospective employees and I think that most organizations will eventually make the switch to streaming salaries. Some organizations even have public dashboards that show how much is being streamed in realtime and to whom. The transparency is super cool!
In the near future, we'll look back on the way we get paid today as unbelievably suboptimal and anachronistic.
I was actually wondering about the Google jobs indexing, thanks for the tip!
The idea is super interesting, though, but a detailed explanation on the website would help.
In many cases, the individual would operate online and work under that one pseudonym, as opposed to changing their pseudonym every day. That way, they can accrue reputation, and an employment history, and credentials, under that identity, just like they could with their legal/government identity. So if you wanted to evaluate a potential candidate, the process would look pretty similar to evaluating a candidate who has provided their legal name. With a few differences here and there.
I think it's interesting too! Thanks for saying that. You're absolutely right about including a detailed explanation on the site. Will add that for sure.
Of course, people could choose to have multiple pseudonyms too. Each would have its own reputation and history. There's a lot of interesting work going on to make it possible to port some reputation between identities without necessarily having to expose your different identities.
Would it be possible to provide a filter which enables you to list jobs that do not have a physical location requirement? For instance, if I live in Sweden, how can I see which remote jobs I am eligible to apply for?
I created a Github repo to aggregate and curate location independent remote jobs. I hope it can be helpful to you also.
https://github.com/Nithur-M/work-from-anywhere
Please let me know what do you think. Leave a star if you like the project.
For ramp, the $250k+ salary is listed based on their "who is hiring" post [1]. But you might be right about the salary being applicable to only US candidates.
Otherwise, I pretty much listed what's there on the job pages.
Why do we put up with this? I think EU employees should just say we will take the same pay you're paying your US employees or we won't take the offer. Giving in to the insane expectation is what keeps us underpaid to our US counterparts.
Assuming the jobs are a json array, it would be cool to add a simple text filter box to the job list.
I love this, but want to make sure I'm not missing out on all the possibilities.
Great font, reminds me of musicForProgramming [1] featured recently.
Could give you some additional sources for your job board.
You can see the list of companies here: https://remotefriendly.com/companies/
Some feedback:
1) It's hard to tell where the job postings are crawled from. Are they recent? Are they comprehensive? Are they fully remote? I can't tell if it's even real data or just some sample postings you put up to demo the UI. Some insight into your crawling methodology would help with trustworthiness.
2) There's no easy way to distinguish the companies from one another, either in terms of their industry, their scale, their rankings, etc.
3) Lack of sorting/filtering makes it hard to drill down beyond the basic category
It's a great start though, and thanks for putting this together!
1) I used HN's June and July "Who is Hiring" threads as a starting point and listed more jobs from the companies that posted there. I manually listed only the jobs with a salary range so there's no automatic crawling right now. I setup a couple of scripts/pages to make the process very easy for me though. All jobs listed are fully remote.
2) There are also company pages for the jobs listed (e.g. https://remotefriendly.com/companies/posthog.com/). They're pretty basic right now but I plan to add a lot more detail in the future.
3) Definitely on the todo list. You can just use ctrl + f for now since the since the site design is simple.