Ask HN: Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs?
I did some research, but lots of offers seem to be ghost jobs and job boards look scammy
Where do you find fully remote (global) jobs in software/ML engineering nowadays?
Where do you find fully remote (global) jobs in software/ML engineering nowadays?
Getting a job through the front door is basically impossible now - and if you want to try, you will need to lie and do all the dirty tricks your competition does, and even then, your conversion rate will be minuscule.
An alternative is either to go through your network (where people you know can vouch that you are real and not just a monkey slinging ChatGPT'd resumes from a boiler room) or in-person (which is immune to a lot of the boiler-room scams and thus you have more chance your application will actually be considered).
Standards are quite high, and the economy obviously isn’t great, but it’s not as bad as that.
I have found signal to noise on LinkedIn to be quite bad now but that’s specific to that site IME.
Do you think your network and/or having high in-demand skills might have something to do with that?
Isn't this always the case? If a skill is not in-demand, why would you get paid a good salary for it?
And by "average" I mean:
- did not go to prestigious college
- do not have 8 years of specialized experience
- have not worked at faang level company
- struggle to do multiple leetcode hards in an interview
- are not cheating with ai tools and/or straight up lying about experience
i can, with full confidence, tell you that the reports of these developers sending out hundreds (if not thousands) of applications without any progress is absolutely the norm at this moment.
You don't need to believe me, just look at the data. There's been hundreds of thousands of software developers laid off in the past years and not enough job openings to make up for it.
Maybe what we needed was a classical and humanities education all along so that people would not abuse available technologies to their worst possible end because more people might have been aware of the outcomes of such behaviour. C’est la vie. Fires have a warm glow, at least.
And the horror movie moral trope of trauma unaddressed or unidentified begets trauma is all too true, and even if the will exists outside of those pockets the people can be ill equipped to deliver that education without help.
And any effort to install some kind of help is regularly short-circuited by various measures—intentionally or otherwise.
Edit: I don’t mean to imply hopelessness. I mean, I still pull myself in here to comment. But it is the reality for some.
There are many decent job boards out there, but the bigger problem is that many of them don't allow specifying remote within a country, or the US-oriented companies that post on them never specify that they only want remote within the US.
You end up wasting time looking at a cool job that pays well, only to see "Remote (US only)".
20 points by toomuchtodo 17 days ago | 6 comments
Add to that the number of people we've had apply for jobs using AI and then turn out to have zero knowledge of what we've hired them for when they turn up.
There's a ton of employer of record companies that can hire for you. I've worked via Deel and Remote.com, both without any issues.
This is kind of beside my point.
What I'm saying is if you can't hire me, that's fine, but I'd like a little bit less of my time wasted up front by stating clearly where a company is hiring instead of just "remote".
Another thing I found out is that many companies hire contractors through contracting agencies and their hiring is ... horrible to say the least.
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A lot of OSS companies are currently hiring. Contribute to their codebase to stand out, get experience, network & improve your resume. Some also share feature bounties on GitHub (https://algora.io) so you can even make money in the process.
I know dozens of engineers who landed jobs within a few months by actively contributing to OSS.
If you match the job well and want to get it, and actually accomplished something at some point, you should try to get it even if Linkedin showed you a high number.
And they are all complete crap.
My top is as follows:
1. Personal acquaintance with the hiring person.
2. A strong referral, not just a button on the site, but bring a resume to the manager and talk to him about my advantages.
3. A weak referral, button on the site. The ability to write to the recruiter by email. The HN "who is hiring" - from this point.
4. Shout out the window if anyone needs a remote employee.
5. Open job boards.
Just worth thinking about what a company is looking for if they are looking at a foreign talent pool.