Just a bit of feedback:
The first job I saw on the page proclaimed "48 tech stacks" which immediately horrified me. That is, until I clicked on it and realized it's 48 different pieces of tech used at the company; including Microsoft Excel, GitHub, Git (listed separately), Zoom, among others.
I feel like there's probably a simpler and less intimidating way to organize and represent this up-front.
Almost as bad as saying you are proficient in python and then naming all the packages you've used. If you were truly proficient, its implicit you know how to use some popular packages already and can trivially speed up to another one based on the python package paradigms you already understand.
At first I agreed. But then I realized I work in finance and it’d be nice to know they use Excel instead of Sheets. I can’t stand Sheets for any serious work.
I'm not sure of the method you're using to obtain this data, but the listing for the company I work for has a wildly inaccurate tech stack. It's also pretty out of date on the open careers, you show one opening (which we're not even hiring for) - we have 12 open positions at the moment.
Hey! That sucks! We're pulling information from job listings/publicly available information at the moment, so not every tech stack is as accurate as we would like it to be :) - Happy to update if you can point out the company and provide information or you can sign up (https://himalayas.app/signup) and change it yourself. You can also send us an email via hi@himalayas.app if it's easier!
As for the open jobs, we do our best to remove any openings that are no longer active but the way we do it isn't perfect + we don't automatically list every open position so that's why we haven't listened all 12 open positions.
I see the "claim this profile", which I'd like to do but I want to ensure that anyone in the company can do this, it's not an "ownership" assertion, is it?
It would be extremely useful to be able to filter per country, as not all remote opportunities are available in all countries, but I guess a feature like this would have to involve data submission from the companies themselves.
On our (shameless plug) job boards, we structured the sites around countries and you also have mandatory salary brackets (provided by the companies)
We also require them to provide full tech stacks, benefits and info how mature they are in Software Engineering (what kind of tests they write, what methodologies they use, etc.)
Neat idea structuring the boards around countries with mandatory salary brackets. I haven't seen a job board use a map like you have, reminds me of Airbnb etc - makes a lot of sense!
This is the actual problem we are trying to solve with Remote Leaf[1](shameless plug). There are tons of remote job openings posted every day on the internet and job seekers do not need to scroll through these long feeds instead we filter them by country and skills and send it to their email. At this point, we manually curate the jobs and tag them to provide good quality service for job seekers.
Yep, I agree. You can currently filter jobs by location and time zone (https://himalayas.app/jobs) but we haven't extended the functionality to our company search yet. We will based on your feedback :)
Seems like a site that I would like to use, but it didn't solve my problems.
I wanted to be able to only see companies that were willing to hire people that live in the country that I live in.
Searching by tech was potentially useful, but didn't really work. I had a large list of companies returned, a sample of which said they used that technology, but didn't have any jobs using it. It needs to be a filter on jobs not on the company - and also a critical technology on that job.
Filtering by benefit seemed a bit pointless. Why would one particular benefit be make or break? What if another company was paying twice as much, but didn't have that benefit - would it still be interesting?
Hey there! Thanks for the feedback. You can't currently filter companies by country, but you can filter jobs by country or time zone requirements on https://himalayas.app/jobs :)
It would be useful to filter companies not in a certain industry. For instance Rust has a ton of jobs in crypto. A lot of people refuse to work in that space.
At first I read this and was really puzzled, thinking why would someone outright refuse a job working on cryptographic products? Like, say, the next Bitlocker, or a PKI implementation in web browsers, or something like that.
Then I remembered about cryptocurrency, and understood.
Even years on, this unfortunately replaced meaning of the term "crypto" still causes a double take!
Interesting - so basically you'd like to be able to search for companies using Rust that are NOT in crypto. I can see how that could be useful, just need to figure out how to support it without making filters too complicated.
Assuming that "crypto" was meant to refer only to cryptocurrency, there are a few companies working on non-blockchain/non-cryptocurrency crypto(graphic) tech which are paying as much as web dev jobs.
For example, I stumbled upon ockam.io during my last job search (no affiliation, and never interviewed with them as they weren't actively hiring when I wrote to them last year). I vaguely remember there being a few others, though I can't remember any names off the top of my head (it has definitely gotten harder searching for those kinds of companies as most job ads are drowned out by all the blockchain jobs). Old job posts on https://this-week-in-rust.org/ often contain a few interesting companies.
(Shameless plug: If anyone is interested in working at a non-profit focusing on non-blockchain cryptography in the field of multi-party computation, the company I'm working at is hiring at the moment and the salary ranges [for a 4-day work week] are listed: https://sinefoundation.notion.site/SINE-Job-Board-d28eda00c5...)
I work at Materialize (materialize.com) which is mostly Rust.
(We’re mostly remote, but not entirely — we do have a local contingent in New York, but it accounts for less than half of our people, with the rest scattered throughout the Americas and Europe).
One big point about remote companies is that most companies even if they are remote still want employees that are in a similar time zone. So if you're in Japan it's unlikely a European company will hire you as the times zones are so different you essentially never be able to communicate with each other in real time.
This means that you should have something on this job board to indicate where they want to hire people from otherwise it's completely useless.
Yes you're correct also local labour laws. One countries generous holiday package may be below the legal minimum for another.
Most companies I know that operate internationally have subcompanies in each company they have employees in. Any FTE is employed by the sub company for taxation and legal reasons. That's a high admin burden for a 10 person start-up easier just to employee people in the same country.
Couldn't agree more! It's clearly not obvious enough, but you can filter jobs by time zone or visa requirements if you head to https://himalayas.app/jobs - sounds like we'll need to add something similar to the /companies search eventually :)
Similar idea to my https://remoteindex.co/remote-companies (shameless plug). On RI I focus more on "remote work quality". I will need to research how they found tech stack, it's really interesting. Besides that, well executed idea. I like it, gives me a lot of inspiration.
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I feel like there's probably a simpler and less intimidating way to organize and represent this up-front.
Isn't that what all the kids want these days?
As for the open jobs, we do our best to remove any openings that are no longer active but the way we do it isn't perfect + we don't automatically list every open position so that's why we haven't listened all 12 open positions.
Let me know if you have any questions.
We also require them to provide full tech stacks, benefits and info how mature they are in Software Engineering (what kind of tests they write, what methodologies they use, etc.)
Feel free to take a look:
- UK: https://devitjobs.uk
- US: https://devitjobs.us
- Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch
- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de
More on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31337168
I wasn't nearly that far, so good learning opportunity to see how you built it...
https://www.findeurostartups.com
[1] - https://remoteleaf.com
I wanted to be able to only see companies that were willing to hire people that live in the country that I live in.
Searching by tech was potentially useful, but didn't really work. I had a large list of companies returned, a sample of which said they used that technology, but didn't have any jobs using it. It needs to be a filter on jobs not on the company - and also a critical technology on that job.
Filtering by benefit seemed a bit pointless. Why would one particular benefit be make or break? What if another company was paying twice as much, but didn't have that benefit - would it still be interesting?
Then I remembered about cryptocurrency, and understood.
Even years on, this unfortunately replaced meaning of the term "crypto" still causes a double take!
For example, I stumbled upon ockam.io during my last job search (no affiliation, and never interviewed with them as they weren't actively hiring when I wrote to them last year). I vaguely remember there being a few others, though I can't remember any names off the top of my head (it has definitely gotten harder searching for those kinds of companies as most job ads are drowned out by all the blockchain jobs). Old job posts on https://this-week-in-rust.org/ often contain a few interesting companies.
(Shameless plug: If anyone is interested in working at a non-profit focusing on non-blockchain cryptography in the field of multi-party computation, the company I'm working at is hiring at the moment and the salary ranges [for a 4-day work week] are listed: https://sinefoundation.notion.site/SINE-Job-Board-d28eda00c5...)
(We’re mostly remote, but not entirely — we do have a local contingent in New York, but it accounts for less than half of our people, with the rest scattered throughout the Americas and Europe).
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This means that you should have something on this job board to indicate where they want to hire people from otherwise it's completely useless.
But another reason for hiring to be restrictive is due to taxation reasons. Companies may have constraints.
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Most companies I know that operate internationally have subcompanies in each company they have employees in. Any FTE is employed by the sub company for taxation and legal reasons. That's a high admin burden for a 10 person start-up easier just to employee people in the same country.