#remote-work
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Posts tagged #remote-work
Bir veda yemeği daha / Another goodbye dinner (the fifth this year)
Dün akşam bir veda yemeği daha vardı. Bu yıl beşinci. Ekipten Can, Amsterdam'a gidiyor. Kadıköy'de her zamanki meyhanede oturduk, rakı, meze, ve herkes aynı soruyu sordu: "Sen ne zaman gidiyorsun Elif?" (For the English readers: last night was another goodbye dinner. The fifth this year. Can from my team is moving to Amsterdam. We sat in our usual meyhane in Kadıköy, rakı, meze, and everyone asked the same question:…
A US startup offered me $1,800/month for a senior React role. Here is what I answered
Last week a recruiter from a startup in Austin wrote me on LinkedIn. Very nice, very excited. "Senior Frontend Engineer, React, TypeScript, Next.js, full overlap with Central time". I have 6 years working with React so I said ok, let's talk. Two calls and one take-home later (4 hours, unpaid, I know, I know), the offer: 1,800 USD per month, contractor, no PTO, "but great equity". For context: in Guadalajara some…
Two years after leaving backend for devrel: what I miss, what I don't, and what nobody warned me about
Not a thread this time. Just a reflection, because several of you asked in DMs whether you should move from engineering into developer relations. What I miss Owning a system. For six years I could point at a payments service and say: that is mine, it moved money for a lot of people today, and it did not fall over. Devrel work is spread across talks, docs, samples and conversations. It matters, but you can rarely…
Async across 4 timezones: what we changed after a 9-hour gap broke our sprint
My product team is spread across Manila, Bengaluru, Lisbon and Toronto. On paper it's "follow the sun". In practice, in August, it was "follow the confusion". What broke Our Toronto engineer asked a question about an API change at 5pm her time. That's 5am in Manila, 2:30am in Bengaluru. The Bengaluru dev had the answer, but by the time he woke up the question was buried under 40 messages in a busy channel. The…
Remote from Guwahati: two ISPs, one UPS I talk to like family, and what a flood does to fibre
I write Django for a startup in Berlin, from Guwahati. The Brahmaputra view from my window is lovely. The broadband is not. After three years, here is my setup and what it has survived. Medium length, because my UPS only gives me so much time. The connections Primary: local fibre, 100 Mbps on paper, 60 to 80 in reality, very stable when it works. Backup: a 5G fixed wireless box from a different operator (Jio…
Your 'global remote' salary band has a Lagos discount. Let's talk about it (1/14)
1/ A European company posts a "fully remote, work from anywhere" role. A senior engineer in Lagos and one in Lisbon get the same title, the same tickets, the same on-call rota. One salary is 40% of the other. Let's talk about why, and whether it holds up. 2/ The company's argument is cost of living: "we pay for the local market". It sounds reasonable. It is also convenient, because it is always the company that…
6 años cruzando la garita diario para trabajar en San Diego. Hace un año me hice remoto y bro, no regreso
Qué onda, carnales. Les cuento porque ayer un compa de la oficina de San Diego me preguntó si "extrañaba ir" jajaja. De 2018 a 2024 mi rutina era: levantarme a las 4:30, salir a las 5:00, fila en San Ysidro. Con SENTRI, 30 a 45 minutos en un día bueno. Antes de tener SENTRI, dos horas, a veces más. Llegaba a la oficina en Sorrento Valley a las 8 ya cansado, con el café frío y escuchando la misma estación de radio…
Paano ko nakuha ang una kong remote job (2017, ₱25k a month, at mali halos lahat ng ginawa ko)
2017. Cebu. Dalawang buwan akong nag-a-apply sa OnlineJobs.ph at Upwork. 83 applications. Iisang cover letter, copy-paste, "Dear Sir/Madam, I am a hardworking and passionate web developer". Zero replies. As in zero. Ano ang nagbago Tinigil ko yung generic na cover letter. Bawat application, 4 na linya lang, pero specific sa job. Nag-record ako ng 90-second screen recording na nag-e-explain ng isang project ko. Noon,…
Being a woman engineering manager in Dubai: what nobody told me
السلام عليكم. I studied computer science in Khartoum at a time when US sanctions meant half the developer tools on the internet refused to work for us. I moved to Dubai in 2016 through a recruiter, with one suitcase and a lot of confidence I had not earned yet. Today I manage twelve engineers from nine countries at a logistics company. Here is what I wish someone had told me. 1. Negotiate the basic, not only the…
For everybody in my DMs asking 'how do I start on Upwork': watch this first, then come back. The first 30 days are the hardest and few people show them honestly. My first month in 2017 I sent 40 proposals and got 1 job, $60. Na so we start.
Cómo conseguí chamba remota para una empresa gringa desde Guadalajara (y cuánto gano, sin pena)
Gano 5,500 USD al mes. Soy frontend senior, contratista, para una empresa de San Francisco, desde Guadalajara. Lo digo con números porque cuando yo buscaba nadie decía cuánto, y por eso la primera vez me ofrecieron 2,000 y casi acepto. Si este post sirve para que una sola persona no acepte 2,000, ya valió la pena. Esto es lo que hice, en orden. No es la única forma, es la mía. 1. Inglés: no necesitas acento gringo…
Trabajar con apagones: mi setup de UPS, hotspot y mucha paciencia (versión Valencia, Venezuela)
Chamos, varios panas me preguntaron en otro hilo cómo hago para trabajar freelance para clientes de afuera con los cortes de luz que tenemos aquí en Valencia. Aquí va, sin drama, lo que me ha funcionado estos años. No es bonito, pero funciona. El contexto Aquí la luz se va. A veces una hora, a veces cuatro, a veces sin aviso. El internet de la casa (fibra, cuando sirve) se cae con la luz porque el nodo del barrio no…
6am run in Eldoret. got lapped by two schoolkids in uniform…
6am run in Eldoret. got lapped by two schoolkids in uniform carrying their bags. one said "pole pole uncle" as she passed. i debug M-Pesa callbacks for a living, i have no business being on this track. still the best part of my day
Cómo le cobro a clientes gringos desde Medellín sin regalar plata en el camino
Parce, arranco con la historia triste para que no les pase. Mi primer cliente gringo, 2021: una app de reservas para un gimnasio en Florida. Todo por chat, cero contrato, "we're a small team, we trust each other". Entregué todo, código, deploy, todo. El último pago, 3.000 dólares, nunca llegó. El man dejó de contestar. Él tenía la app funcionando, yo tenía una lección. Desde ahí hago estas cosas, sin excepción: 1.…
vaga gringa de hoje: 'senior backend, 8+ anos de Spring…
vaga gringa de hoje: 'senior backend, 8+ anos de Spring, inglês fluente, disponível no fuso de São Francisco, competitive salary'. competitive = 1.800 dólares. mano. exposure não paga boleto
Twelve engineers, nine nationalities, one potluck: what a lunch taught me about managing people
السلام عليكم. A short one, and not very technical. I manage twelve engineers at a logistics company in Dubai. Between us we are from Sudan, Egypt, India (three of them, from three states that will never agree on rice), Pakistan, the Philippines, Jordan, Nigeria, Ukraine and Russia. Yes, both. They sit next to each other and review each other's pull requests, and I will come back to that. Every quarter, instead of a…
Nice video, genuinely. But after 5 years can someone make the day in the life where you spend 3 hours finding a laundromat, your visa run gets moved, and you eat dinner alone again? That's also nomad life. Still wouldn't trade it 🙃
cobrar en dólares y que el peso se ponga fuerte es la única…
cobrar en dólares y que el peso se ponga fuerte es la única tragedia que nadie te deja contar. 'ay pobrecita, gana en dólares'. sí, y mi renta sube en pesos igual jaja 🙃
Remote from Kathmandu: UTC+5:45, no PayPal, and a bank that wants three letters
नमस्ते everyone. I've been a full stack dev for an Australian agency for two years, fully remote from Kathmandu. People keep asking me how it works, so here is the honest version haha. The timezone that confuses everyone Nepal is UTC+5:45. Yes, 45. Every new client thinks it's a typo. Sydney is UTC+10 right now, so we're 4 hours 15 minutes apart. I start at 6:45 am, which is 11 am for them, and finish around 3 pm.…
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I left Moscow in 2022 and I still cannot get paid like a normal person
I want to say first: I am not asking for pity. Ukrainians have it much worse, I know this. This is only a post about what is it like to be a relocant developer with a Russian passport, because people ask me and I am tired of explaining it in DMs. I left Moscow the week mobilisation was announced, September 2022. Belgrade, because Serbia did not need a visa and I had a friend with a sofa. I am against the war. Против…
Aapki company ka office wala scene kya hai? Sach batana 😂
Mi arriendo en Medellín subió 40% en dos años y no, no es solo culpa de los nómadas (pero un poquito sí)
Parce, les cuento. Vivo en Laureles hace 5 años. Pagaba 1.800.000 de arriendo por un apartamento de dos alcobas, nada lujoso. El mes pasado la dueña me dijo que o le pagaba 2.500.000 o lo desocupaba, porque "en Airbnb por mes le dan el doble a los extranjeros". Y lo peor es que tiene razón. En mi cuadra hay tres edificios que ya son casi todos apartamentos amoblados "por mes", anunciados en dólares y en inglés. El…