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Comment by dmacvicar | Hacker News Reader

SUSE is hiring for 66 different positions. 39 in Engineering. (REMOTE OK², CAN OFFER VISA, RELOCATION SPONSORSHIP)

  - Nuremberg, Germany, Prague
  - Czech Republic, Beijing, China
  - any SUSE location globally or home office

We have positions open for Docker developers, Kernel engineers, Java/Linux developers, Ruby hackers, Rails developers, OpenStack engineers, and QA engineers.

SUSE is a 20+ year old company providing a rock-solid enterprise Linux distribution. You can see where we lead here: https://www.suse.com/promo/suse-leadership.html

What do we offer:

  - Direct contact with representatives of free/open source software projects
  worldwide.
  - Regular hackathons (Hack Weeks) and workshops on the company, department,
  and team levels.
  - Five weeks vacation. (¹)
  - Contributions to pension insurance or capital life insurance. (¹)
  - Other common employee benefits (food coupons, health care, sports and cultural
  activities). (¹)
  - Free beverages. (¹)
  - We know how to party.
  - We celebrate success.

All job postings are available here: https://attachmatehr.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseac...

  ¹ Reference for the example benefits is the office in Germany.
  They may vary across hiring locations.
  ² Please note that not all positions are available for remote workers and
  still relocation may be preferred.

> REMOTE OK

This is one big lie, company policy is to bring people to the office.

I am not sure why would you say that. The company has a big chunk of people working from remote locations all over the world, not only developers but also managers.

The fact that the possibility to work remotely is evaluated based on the candidate experience, the location (eg. cost to the team to meet in person), timezone, and the location of the rest of the team, does not mean hiring locally is a policy. It is completely up to the team with very few exceptions.

I was told that it is indeed company policy to have employees in the office. There are only very few remote workers, and new hires are relocated to the next office location, with very few exceptions. Once there, one can basically forget about working remotely, because telecommuting is "only an exception under special circumstances".

Whoever told you that, it is incorrect information. There are remote workers at all levels of the organization.

You should not confuse that with "every position is open to be hired remote". There are teams that are setup for that, others that are not. Even for the same position, it depends a lot on the candidate.

About telecommuting, we call that home-office and has nothing to do with "remotes". It only applies to people working in office locations (obviously). You can work from home if you have a reason for it (something delivered, big cold but feeling well, sick child, etc.), but it is not like "I am not in the mood of going to the office today so I stay home".

Awesome. And then your team is located in Beijing, Nuremberg, Prague or wherever and you're to come to a different office for no reason whatsoever. Then you spend your whole day at the office communicating over IRC or mail for the sole reason of having your ass in an office chair.

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