Ask HN: Difficulties with dev remote jobs?

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by rocco • 12 years ago

18 3 12 years ago

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Hi,

As experienced Ruby/Rails developer see many interesting remote jobs listings from US startups... but I don't have experience with this work methodology. Someone has experience of this type to share? Not native English speakers in particular, you have had problems to communicate?

iamthepieman• 12 years ago

It will be difficult. It's hard enough working for many US companies remotely as a native English speaker.

Let your work speak for itself. This means a couple things.

1. write self-documenting code - whatever that means for you or your team

2. use a style guide. if your team doesn't have one, ask them to create one or do it yourself and get input from the team as you do.

3. You must be capable of putting out consistent excellent work.

4. Don't work for a company that doesn't already have remote procedures in place. You don't want to be the guinea pig as a non-english speaker. This means the company should already have good remote collaboration tools in place.

Additional advice:

1. use video chat as your default form of communication. Get a good webcam.

2. Make sure there's some flag that lets your team know when your available especially if you're in a different time zone. Whether that's signing in to a work-specific IM account or some other method is up to you to decide

feel free to contact me directly if you have any more questions. I've been working remotely for a company that doesn't take it seriously for nearly 3 years and have learned a lot the hard way.

marcoalfonso• 12 years ago

I plan to do the remote worker leap next year to travel around the world.. would be great if there was a who is hiring for only remote jobs.

Currently I work with three remote devs in the philipines and I can say the workflow is great. We have implemented a pretty solid git flow, and we use hip chat for communicating (hubot included).

potomak• 12 years ago

I can suggest https://weworkremotely.com/, a tool to search for remote positions by 37signals, but I don't have any personal experience in this field.

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