A quick look at two of the companies' hiring pages for various positions reveals no use of the word 'remote' (Khan Academy and Automattic). May I ask that some evidence be presented in your companies list that testifies to the veracity of your claim that they allow remote employees?
I can testify that there are plenty of remote folk at Khan Academy--can think of six full-time remote devs off the top of my head (in a sub-40 person dev team). It's a very remote-friendly culture.
Has anyone tried scraping the Who is Hiring thread? I know it would probably have some errors due to formatting, but it would be interesting to see how well it could be automated.
Can you add some guidelines for contributors? Is it OK for me to share my own company? If so, what are the base requirements, does the whole team need to be remote? Just curious :)
Heap is hiring engineers, and we have two remote engineers on our team now.
I like the idea, but it looks like there are tons of tasks offering $60 for some simple feature.
Someone asked for an Angular.js dashboard for $1600. After taxes, that would be less than $1000. That's not an appropriate payment for a week's work. It's not an appropriate payment for two days work.
"$1000 after tax is not appropriate for two days work"
Assuming you work 250 days a year ... $125,000/year after tax is never acceptable for web dev? Even in the USA that's flying pretty damned high everywhere outside NY/SF. ... And you can live anywhere, it's remote work!
What, pray tell, is an acceptable wage? What sort talent and experience level makes that pay "appropriate"?
I understand you may not be fully booked 100% of the time, and that there are certain overheads, but despite all that, this guy said $1000 after tax for two days work is totally unacceptable
that gives no consideration to the programmer's skill or experience, location, overheads, average workload, etc
Let's say you have 125K after tax (which is what he said), and you spend $12K a year on health insurance (that's $1000 a month on health insurance...), you're still sitting at $113,000 AFTER TAX.
Even if you only work 75% of the year because the other 25% is spent finding contracts (188 "working" days per year instead of 250), thats still $93,000 AFTER TAX. For remote work.
I don't know where you're pulling the number 30k from... The same magic hat where $125K post-tax is unacceptable?
When freelancing the general rule is assume that will be spending 1/3 of your time with no billable work, and you need to build that into your rate. That leaves you with $83,000/year, and you still have to pay for healthcare and vacation time.
This rule especially applies to short, 2 day jobs like this. How likely is that you will be able to roll through a string of ~20 hour jobs with no downtime?
"It's not an appropriate payment for two days work."
This is based on an assumption that there's only one (high) standard of work.
For a kid trying to get one of his classmates to do his homework assignment for him, that doesn't sound too far out of line for "my first web project" level of quality.
You pay chickenfeed you get chickens. Sometimes for sound business reasons or real world issues you want chickens, not a soaring eagle.
The business world is ending a cycle of outsourcing where the mantra was "who cares about code quality, as long as its cheap".
At my previous employer we were looking for mobile devs and while we'd prefer someone who was good at both, we accepted that it was unlikely to happen so we were interviewing people who were great at one platform.
You could add Datastax.com too as the engineering team is often hiring remote people; see the current open positions on their jobs page: http://www.datastax.com/company/careers
I did a "git clone" of you repository, added my link to README.md, then did a "git push", only to get:
remote: Permission to lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job.git denied to CyberneticEntomologist.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403
I did the "git clone" on my own box. Do I need to do it from github?
Feel free to jack my list if you like. I'm not trying to make money with this, what I aim to accomplish is to dispel the notion that there is a shortage of tech workers.
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Heap is hiring engineers, and we have two remote engineers on our team now.
Someone asked for an Angular.js dashboard for $1600. After taxes, that would be less than $1000. That's not an appropriate payment for a week's work. It's not an appropriate payment for two days work.
Have you been successful with this?
Assuming you work 250 days a year ... $125,000/year after tax is never acceptable for web dev? Even in the USA that's flying pretty damned high everywhere outside NY/SF. ... And you can live anywhere, it's remote work!
What, pray tell, is an acceptable wage? What sort talent and experience level makes that pay "appropriate"?
Even then, such a task would realistically take at least several days. So, the _actual_ annual income would be closer to 30k.
that gives no consideration to the programmer's skill or experience, location, overheads, average workload, etc
Let's say you have 125K after tax (which is what he said), and you spend $12K a year on health insurance (that's $1000 a month on health insurance...), you're still sitting at $113,000 AFTER TAX.
Even if you only work 75% of the year because the other 25% is spent finding contracts (188 "working" days per year instead of 250), thats still $93,000 AFTER TAX. For remote work.
I don't know where you're pulling the number 30k from... The same magic hat where $125K post-tax is unacceptable?
It looks to me like it would take more than a week. That looks more like a slave wage than fair pay for remote work.
This rule especially applies to short, 2 day jobs like this. How likely is that you will be able to roll through a string of ~20 hour jobs with no downtime?
At 8 hours a day, that's $100/hr. Even for NYC, that's considered decent for a front-end developer.
Not sure what standard you're judging this against that $100/hr is ridiculous.
This is based on an assumption that there's only one (high) standard of work.
For a kid trying to get one of his classmates to do his homework assignment for him, that doesn't sound too far out of line for "my first web project" level of quality.
You pay chickenfeed you get chickens. Sometimes for sound business reasons or real world issues you want chickens, not a soaring eagle.
The business world is ending a cycle of outsourcing where the mantra was "who cares about code quality, as long as its cheap".
[1] https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969
I hope a similar issue doesn't arise here.
I'm an Android developer but know nothing about iOS. I'm not sure whether I should be applying to these positions or not.
I'd say apply but this is entirely anecdotal.
https://www.getharvest.com/careers
https://www.getharvest.com/made-on-earth
My remote list is at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/
Feel free to jack my list if you like. I'm not trying to make money with this, what I aim to accomplish is to dispel the notion that there is a shortage of tech workers.
What you have to do in this situation is create a fork on the github site, make your changes there, which you'll have permission to do.
If you make your changes on a branch you can then send a "pull request" to the original author to get your changes.
This might be a helpful read:
https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/
I usually use subversion.
it will fork it for you and let you edit in browser.