Ask HN: Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs?

Nextgrid · a year ago

In addition to the (real, but somewhat overblown) downturn in tech, the main problem is that hiring is fucked. Both sides are in a scam/fraud arms race.

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).

52-6F-62 · a year ago

Lol… “technology will save the planet”

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.

Quiark · a year ago

Why do people believe humanities education would make people act ethically?

em-bee · a year ago

it's not to late to change education and teach people how to be compassionate and care for others and the world. that's really the most important change. everything else (including fixing climate change) will follow.

davedx · a year ago

Not my experience (did job hunt a couple of months back).

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.

ayewo · a year ago

> Not my experience (did job hunt a couple of months back).

Do you think your network and/or having high in-demand skills might have something to do with that?

mmcromp · a year ago

I'm glad you had a relatively good experience but for many mid "average" software engineers, this is absolutely the case.

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.

TheCapeGreek · a year ago

Global remote has been on a bit of a downturn in the last few years.

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)".

bobdvb · a year ago

A lot of the time the company cannot make it remote global because of tax and regulatory compliance. I work for a multinational company who has employees in at least a dozen countries, but we can't employ anyone who isn't in a country we don't have a registered company entity.

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.

lmazgon · a year ago

> we can't employ anyone who isn't in a country we don't have a registered company entity

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.

TheCapeGreek · a year ago

Late to the reply:

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".

Netaro · a year ago

Would such jobs help with obtaining us work visa/relocation? I'm looking to move anywhere and have an adventure tbh.

ganarajpr · a year ago

Come on dude. Read the news. Almost nobody (no country) wants immigrants.

markus_zhang · a year ago

Job market is bad right now. I don't even see many local remote jobs (in Canada). Some say "remote" but then they are actually "hybrid" when you meet the recruiter.

Another thing I found out is that many companies hire contractors through contracting agencies and their hiring is ... horrible to say the least.

pllbnk · a year ago

Actually, a lot of jobs that are listed as "hybrid" can be negotiated to remote.

pabs3 · a year ago

Open source companies often have fully remote global jobs.

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

davedx · a year ago

Hacker News monthly threads. Frequencies of Remote jobs in there rises and falls, some months have more than others. But a lot (almost all) of my income over the last few years has been from HN or references thereof

feverzsj · a year ago

I heard North Koreans are able to find remote jobs at Fortune 500 easily.

usrme · a year ago

I recently came across Remote Yeah[1], but I can't vouch for its viability personally. It might help discover some companies who are at least willing to go down the remote route.

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[1]: https://remoteyeah.com/

symbiosis-now · a year ago

Can try to explore https://joblist.today (also can contribute to the open database list of companies and jobs).

update8887 · a year ago

Worldwide remote jobs are usually marked "Remote" only, without a "limiting region" next to it; E.g: https://components.joblist.today/apps/search/?query=remote%2...