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A list of vendors at the PyCon job fair that hire remotely

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39 pointskungfooey15 comments

There's just one issue with the survey (although this is fucking brilliant!):

You should have first defined what "Remote" means.

A company could be willing to hire remote, but to them remote could mean somebody within the area who can drop by the office from time to time.

Still, I am very impressed by your efforts.

If I had to do it again I would have asked "Does your company embrace a remote work culture?" That's more what I was looking for. Oh well. It was still interesting to talk to 45 different companies and get their take on it.

I did ask a few details about how they accommodated remote work (most had teams on IRC, Slack, or Hipchat and only one said they used Jabber) but I didn't standardize as much so I didn't write down all that data. I only had about 2 hours to collect all this so I had to make some sacrifices somewhere. As it was I missed a couple of companies that folded their tables up before I could get to them.

Perhaps you don't need to make the process completely manual.

You could collect the data through some hosted form from all the companies at the same time.

Or recruit a few people to help.

I would volunteer to help out at next year's Pycon in Mtl if you're planning to do produce a similar survey

Exactly. I barely look for [remote] jobs at US companies, because most likely it is US-only remote. This trend became popular in UK as well. On the other hand, remote jobs at companies from other countries are usually world-wide remote.

Employers - please take this in count in HN Who is Hiring threads as well.

Hmm, I didn't think Facebook did actual remote hiring. At least on their Careers site, their jobs seem pretty attached to locations. At least one random Software Engineering job said it required being on location.

I went through some of the hiring process at fb, and it was quite promising (hard to tell, but I was pretty sure I was almost to an offer), but decided I couldn't relocate at the time and remote was a complete non-starter.

I am a current employee at Cox Media and can say that our team has a large percentage of full-time remote folks. We've got devs and from Portland to DC and many major cities in between. All remote employees come in to Atlanta at the same time once a year for "homecoming" but there is no expectation for regular travel outside of that. Communication is primarily a cross between irc or teamspeak as well as other tools and we can do fully remote interviews also.

We are looking for solid python and django devs and we are actively trying to fill several positions. I am a python dev who has been with Cox for almost a year and can answer any questions.

Check out the job description here: http://cmgd-jobs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/developer.html

I am a big proponent of remote hiring and working - good for the developer, and if done right, good for the company.

But boy it takes some work to get a remote worker as productive and plugged in as an onsite worker.

But the very minute the whole company is not on one site, remote is the only way to go. Got two sites and no remote ethos - congratulations you now have two companies. Got two floors on the same building and no remote ethos - hooray, two companies.

it's a management and cultural shift - measuring by results, good upfront grooming, in estment in tools, reducing schedule pressure, quality above all else - the list is long

It is interesting to see big companies like LinkedIn, Twitter, HP showed some interest in hiring remotely. Not sure if they would consider hiring a regular software developer remotely. Their answer mostly make me think of "Well, in case there is an extraordinary hacker that we can benefit, we might think of offering a remote job".

Olark live chat was at PyCon (no booth) and we hire remotely.

In fact, sometimes very remotely like the far flung islands of Scotland, though we tend to want to pop in! :)

https://www.olark.com/jobs

I actually came across this fact (you guys hire remotely) a while ago.

The hiring process seemed so brutal/intense to me.

Then again, hiring remote gives you every reason to scrutinize someone who may never set foot in your offices.

Interesting feedback. What's brutal about our hiring process?

I imagine you're talking about the workalong for a day? We think it's a good way for everyone to meet face to face, not just for us to get to know you but for you to get to know us. Changing jobs and hiring someone are mutually big commitments.

Perhaps it was the "way" the person I communicated with spoke about it.

Something like triple interviews, cut-throat competition for the position (which shouldn't actually count as brutal on your side, but it is brutal) and because it was a while back... I cannot recall the other parts.

Kudos to Olark for treating the business like a family though. I saw the link and the get-togethers look pretty awesome :-)

I actually wasn't told about the "workalong for a day". That step in the hiring phase seems okay though.

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