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Comment by ThePawnBreak | Hacker News Reader

It's very hard to get a remote position if you're not a web developer. I tried, and it feels twice easier to get offers at Google or Facebook than to get a decent remote job.

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What sort of position are you looking for? I do DevOps and both orgs and recruiters are constantly reaching out.

Any development position that doesn't require me to touch Javascript, HTML or CSS (I hate frontend). I am merely a junior, but I do have 4 internships under my belt (Microsoft, Google) and I would say I am quite decent at programming. I am familiar with both low level software (I wrote some C and x86 asm at Microsoft) and high level software (Python and automation at Google), Linux, operating systems, distributed systems, algorithms and data structures, and most things you would expect a good CS graduate to know about.

I am Romanian, but I would say my English skills are quite good, so communication shouldn't constitute a problem. I applied to about 30 remote positions and didn't get any interviews. I'm going to leave my country soon for this reason (trying to get a job at Google atm).

Sorry to hear you're not getting much traction with those remote positions you've applied for. My advice would be to keep trying. Always Be Interviewing; it costs you time, but the reward is enormous. Good luck with Google; if it doesn't work out, here are some resources to use:

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

https://remotebase.io/

https://whereverjobs.com/

https://weworkremotely.com

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote

https://www.wfh.io/

http://jobmote.com/

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