Julty 2024: How to get a remote software development role.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- I keep being asked this question. My answer is very simple despite the complications involved.
You ask:
"can I get a remote role?
I ask... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Thank you very much for making this video. It's helping me understand the world more and understand that I'm not a complete failure for not landing a remote job while still in university. No idea what projects to do without just copying someone else's idea. No idea what people are looking for. But I'll try my best.
Oh no, your still a complete failure. You don't have a full time, fully remote job? in the industry your still going to school for? In an industry that you still have not finished school for? Before you even finish school? Before you finish any large projects? Are you even trying? Yes, that is sarcasm. I'm joking. Get some projects under your belt and either finish or fail school, and then you are allowed to start thinking of yourself as a failure, but lets face it you have not earned the right to think of yourself as a failure yet.
Guess I'm a lot luckier than I thought. I've been working remote since 2021 as a web developer and this is my first job after college. But I totally agree, trust needs to be built for remote work, I knew the only way they'd keep me is if I actually got my work done and continuously improved. Something I can say is a lot easier said than done, I've seen plenty of people come in and out of the company because they simply didn't do the work.... Trust is simple, just do good work within the timeline and communicate it.
What kind of projects you made?
Hey man, good for you on being a remote web dev for that long. I am interested in web dev, what projects should you make and what resources helped you achieve your goal on creating them?
Senior Dev here
You must do time in the pits just like everyone else
It's good to see where all the inefficiencies are and how the games are played
Without it, you will not be able to work remotely successfully
You cant be effective remote until you have been local. Its the same reason offshore workers have such a gap, as they are effectively extra-remote but without good communication or shared ethics and values.
Wish someone had given me this straight answer a long time ago. Everyone, even senior devs, give completely unhelpful answers like "oh you'll get one eventually." I now realize it's because I live in the middle of nowhere Helena, MT and no job opportunities except remote, combined with the economy I basically have almost no chance. Just going to keep learning and improving and trying to find side jobs for work experience.
rly value ur honesty and bluntness 👍
A lot of people hate how honest I am , thank you.
blunt honesty is rare to find on this site. But I really appreciate it!
Thank you!
Great video. Lots of truth
You provide a lot of experience to what is common sense
Btw, I follow somebody who wrote programs from the 70s.
Truth. There are 1,000 other Juniors applying to that same remote job. If you're not a top 10 applicant, you're not even going to get an interview.
If you have the hubris to think you're a top 1% Junior, you're probably not.
Get your in-office hybrid role. Become a top 20% Senior Level engineer. Get your remote role later.
What should be the standard of project ? Crud with search would work?
In my opinion this wont be enough in the current state of the job market. From the way you have formed your exercise it seems to me that you are looking for the option that would allow you to do the bare minimum and this wont get you anywhere.
In my opinion if you want to make the best impression you have to do projects for yourself. That is, projects that help you in some capacity when it comes to your daily life and/or interests.
For example, a workout tracking app or a web scraper that notifies you when the price of a product goes down to a certain point. Huge bonus points if you can demonstrate that you have learned a new tech by doing the job.
No, doing the bare minimal wont help you.
Wowowow, you were an L7 at Amazon?! You gain all my respect, sir!
I hit the wall early. Then I just "F*ck it" and started running my own ship. My lead basically just let me once he realized I could, but he also started asking me to help with "side projects" once I did that because he saw I was getting my work done faster than expected so he was eager to use that additional engineering capacity.
@@honestduaneI am blown away by your story, I wonder how can I become like you! I have a question for you since I aspire to follow in your footsteps and become a great engineer (I love coding). What should I do to be at least as half-good as you are? Right now, I am making Android apps as side projects because I enjoy the platform very much, and I want to understand it in depth to become an expert in the field one day. Any suggestion would be golden, thanks in advance sir, and please keep doing the great job you're doing in YT!
What do you think about the hundreds of thousands of Indians/Asians that come to the US specifically to get a software job (including in crisis times).
They have been lied to and are honored guests of the USA who are being abused in a saturated labor market that doesn't need them. I get why companies don't want to pay market wages, I get why companies want somebody they can hold hostage to a visa, I get all that, but I also don't feel this kind of fraud is ethical or professional, and it harms the USA's reputation.
@@honestduane I think it's amazing for companies, they can easily lower the wages with this kind of immigration.
Now it makes sense why nobody wants to hire me after 4 years of fully remote (i haven't touch and office in my life) :/
To be effective in a remote role, it really helps to have in-office experience.
Duane, I have 1 semester in cs. Should I switch to mechanical engineering?
If you can and you enjoy it, do what feels right.
I would get out of tech man. I have 3 years of experience and was part of a mass layoff laying off 60% of the devs in our organization. We literally had to demonstrate how to use our work to Indians who they pay 3$ an hour just so the company can have another "record profit year". I am in my late 20's and the best advice I can give you is to learn something that can't be shipped overseas easily. I am really debating going into the trades after earning a bachelor's and having 3 years xp in software development, I would be so much farther in a career if i had those 7 years back. Good luck out there man.
@@MrApotheosis15 Yeah my dad told me the only people left in his companies IT department is him and one other person. Since they work with physical hardware they can't be outsourced, but everyone else was outsourced. Would you say engineering jobs can be outsourced? What other majors would you consider to be a good idea?
@@MrApotheosis15 Trades are rife with nepotism! Damn near impossible to get in, and a lot of "non americans" working those jobs. GET INTO NURSING
Spanish not a European language? What is it then?
A Latin American language? Like I said, they moved around a bit so I didn't want to get into the history.
@@honestduane Spanish is still in Spain... It never stopped being a European language. English is European as well, not North American. British people don't speak a North American language.
It doesn't matter what history says and what you "believe". It's about the origins of the language and the people who are in that original country.
Calling it an European language is like calling English an European language. Sure, that's its origin but it is misleading to call it that because the vast majority of people that speak that language are not European.
@@user-pi8pd9wc5y So Rome?
How do you expect anyone to thank you for what you have done, when you did it only for yourself? You're Not a Philanthropist. Also, Invest in a haircut and some teeth.