Ask HN: Where to look for junior level remote positions?
This year I went to a bootcamp and spent the rest of 2018 writing full-stack apps for my personal use/development. I've been using Linux on the desktop since 2006, and I am comfortable using new technologies and languages whenever needed. I believe and have been told by people in the industry that I am qualified for a junior or level 2 position as a software engineer. Getting a job seems like the obvious next step to keep accumulating experience, but there are two obstacles:
* I can only work remote, for a variety of reasons, and * I am not a Western citizen, which I believe disqualifies me from working for companies in the EU or North America.
I am not interested in what the salary might be: what I am looking for is experience and tasks with which to fill my days and occupy my mind. With this in mind, how do you think should I go about finding a 'job' under these circumstances, if its even feasible? I considered opening up shop by myself and offering pro-bono services to local charities/NGOs, but I feel like it would be an inefficient learning environment. Is it feasible to find a full-time 'post' in an open source project? Or does open-source work asynchronously as opposed to having team dynamics?
I don't even know where to begin looking for the answers to my questions.
tldr: third-world citizen wants a remote job, doesn't know where to look, has no prior work experience but is unconcerned with the salary, how to approach this situation?
Thank you
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 47.9 ms ] threadIf you start remote first, I don't think you have a good chance of picking up those subtle, soft things
I have a disability. On-site work decreases my quality of life too much for the trade-off to be worth it.
- try contracting (online) , have a portfolio to show clients of projects you worked on, charge a low rate to undercut the market. Difficult part will be to sell yourself due to lack of experience.
- find a remote job, very difficult due to junior dev status. Not many firms will hire a remote junior dev when they can hire non remote ones. You can maybe sell yourself but they might be disappointed at lack if experience
- find a non remote job, not sure what tech scene is like where your based but sometimes you have to travel or move out of comfort zone to achieve your desired career and passion.
- try another career outside IT, remote business admins etc are now a thing or whatever floats your boat
- start your own start up, not easy, very risky and without experience it'll be difficult but maybe try solving problems in your local community or city and sell that.
We are based in Europe+Asia
Our team is 100% remote.
Elastic Search is another company you could try, I assume you speak a second language this will also help for any of these entry positions
My lack of time make it impossible for me to work on these projects but if you are interested I can definitely arrange something!
Eventually I was hoping to release SQL bindings for python, golang and maybe Ruby but any language will do. For each of those I will be able to pay just 200€ that I know is a misery but I can't afford much more.
All the code will be open source, there won't really be deadlines, and is just going to be an informal thing.
If you or anybody else reading is interested feel free to hit my email.