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So by mentioning salary I presume we're talking indefinite contracts here rather than lots of different clients.

To be honest you're going to have a tough time, competition is high and hiring juniors seems quite rare. (You may have more luck with larger remote companies but most remote companies tend towards the smaller side).

However here are some things you can do to maximise your chances (applicable to non remote work too).

1. Be effective and clear with communication, remote work requires you to over-communicate. Don't assume the person with whom you're talking to via email/slack has all the information that you do.

2. Being a grad you've got no real CV experience to fall back on, imperative that you have a github/bitbucket account with examples of the work you can do. At least one fully fledged project in the stack that you are targeting. For example if you're going to work with Rails then having a project where you use some common libraries, integrate OAuth or some sort of authentication,talk to external APIs with good test coverage and and documentation.

3. Almost as important as #2 is to blog with what you're learning, show any companies of the learning that you're doing and the potential that you have. We had an applicant once who included a link to all 50 Amazon reviews he'd written of different tech books, fantastic way to show passion and understanding.

4. Be realistic, being a grad and go straight into remote work will be tough. Have a plan B.

My advice would be to try and work in a larger company for a while, find the opportunity to work with experienced developers and see how it is, you may actually like being in an office! Remote work is not for everyone and while it seems to be perfect it has many drawbacks.

Best of luck!

Depends on what you consider 'hard'? I'd say the market for quality developers is still pretty small and thus time consuming and it takes a lot of time to sift through to find the right candidates or candidates with potential.

If a position takes longer than 2 months to fill I consider it 'hard'.

From my personal experience you are best off with Javascript and then either Node/Python or Ruby as the backend, loads of jobs advertise for these.

Much easier to find front end work than backend remotely I think.

I work remotely using Java 8 (the good type :D)

Agreed, when I see an opinion like no product input from the tech team it just makes me think that the company in question would just be better off hiring contractors.

Just used it quickly, I like the idea but when adding new tasks you should inspect the last tasks finish time and add that as the new start time of the new task. I'd also provide a configurable amount for time blocks (or a picker panel of common amounts, 30mins,1 hour,2 hour etc).

Overall nice and clean, tiny download like andrewvijay mentioned and zero silly permission stuff, good work!

I'm a foreigner living in Barcelona for four years, only once has someone tried to pickpocket me and I noticed them easily. I agree with your sentiment though, Barcelona feels like an incredibly safe city (at least in the center/Eixample) and I've never felt worried at night. Having lived/visited in Leeds/London and NYC in my experiences they are vastly more worrying/dangerous at night.

Slightly different personal data point from my guiri perspective living in Barcelona I'd say that of the 12-15 Catalans that I know well the clear majority are pro independence.

Seems polls have between 60-80% of Catalans want independence : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/poll-finds-th...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29982960

As the urban region of Barcelona has around 5 million residents (7.5 million in Catalunya) the urban areas do have a lot of support for the movement.

They do however use facilities that are paid for by taxes, people remote working and travelling are already in a privileged position with their job and freedom/flexibility.

Skipping taxes just seems unfair on locals and personally I wouldn't do it as I don't agree with super rich people that have complex tax arrangements so I'm not going to forgive the smaller fish either.

Hey there, Could you edit your post to not include the word r-e-m-o-t-e per the rules, add ONSITE to job ads that don't offer r-e-m-o-t-e work. It'll help you find more suitable candidates, thanks!

Hey there,

Could you edit your post to not include the word remote per the rules, add ONSITE to job ads that don't offer remote work. It'll help you find more suitable candidates, thanks!

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I think it is quite common for east coast companies to hire European remote workers. I work in a Java team comprised of 7 people currently for a US Boston based company and 6 of the 7 are based in the EU (2 in UK,2 in Spain, 2 in Czech Republic).

There are certain barriers to hiring but it allows you to pick some really great engineers up that would just be impossible to do in San Fran etc without a huge budget.

I voted you up, you gave great information to potential candidates and included a rough pay idea, hopefully you'll float to the top. Best of luck!

This a thousand times over, there are so many job opportunities out there at the moment but relatively few outside of the Valley are willing to up the market rate even though there is a huge lack of talent.

Let's not throw around the term Java zombie, there are lots of high paying and interesting roles within the Java world, every language has boring jobs.

To the OP the hot and well paid areas of Java development at the moment seem to be around:

Spring Boot/Hystrix/Feign Play Framework Java 8 Hadoop Spark ML

From what I've seen of the hiring market Android looks to be one of the hottest areas, there is a real dearth of good quality talent in this field.

It says Minneapolis on his profile

I work full time remotely using Java. There are tons of Java jobs out there doing interesting work. On the remote front Java isn't that popular but it's still possible to find remote friendly Java companies (just not as ubiquitous as Ruby/Python/JS remote jobs).

Edit: I've been working with Java professionally for just short of 8 years.

Or use Lombok and get it even more concise!

val userIdMap = new HashMap<String,User>();

I'm running a Lenovo S540 (the line has been discontinued but it is an ultrabook). It's processor isn't as good as the 4th gen X1 carbon you can check the comparison here: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=2608&cmp%...

My S540 has an SSD,16gb ram and the slower processor and it churns through work fine, I mainly do Java development and on top of that I use the Play Framework which compiles to both Java and Scala so it's more CPU intensive.

I can easily run one or two IDE instances alongside 10+ chrome tabs,several terminals and mongo/mysql db GUIs.

The 4th Gen X1 Carbon looks pretty awesome http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...

$1857 gets you:

i7 6600U processor 16gb ram 512gb SSD 2560x1440 WQHD Screen

WiGig OneLink+ Mini DisplayPort™ HDMI™ 3 x USB 3.0 microSD™ Weight Starting at 2.6 lbs (1209 g)

Damn I think I might have just convinced myself here!

Guess a lot of people aren't going to pass their performance reviews in their 3rd year.

Yup I was shocked by this, really disappointing behaviour from Github.

Sure, no language is perfect but I've never ran into problems using Lombok in production. I'd gladly welcome the majority of its features being part of the core language though! :)

I hope this gets added to the language, we use Lombok heavily where I work and find it pretty great with it's val class that allows type inference, although it requires an explicit import and can't be used within Lambdas.

The website isn't the prettiest but Lombok is a fantastic addition to a Java codebase and massively reduces the amount of boiler plate often associated with Java. A list of Lombok features https://projectlombok.org/features/index.html

Java 8 + Lombok + Guava == happy developers (well at least in my case :) ).

I'm a long time user of Eclipse but recently have tried IntelliJ again, it's got some really nice features such as the inline values while debugging but by far the biggest annoyance is not being able to have multiple projects within a workspace.

At work I mainly work on two APIs that work closely together so in Eclipse I can have both open and just jump between the projects easily and at home I like to have all my scratch pad projects/ideas in one eclipse workspace so I can jump between them all easily.

I know there are kinda workarounds with modules but it doesn't really work well, if they allowed the ability for multiple projects in a workspace I'd jump ship but sadly it seems it'll never be supported (according to co-worker who is a die hard IDEA fan).

Kudos to you for adding salary and equity to your advert, hope you find some great candidates!

Nice chance is overstating it by a HUGE amount on the 'making it big part', yes quite a few developers in the start up world can get equity, the former rarely happens.

Absolutely, I work for a globally distributed company who are based in the US and the employees that are in the EU are easily some of the most talented people I've ever worked with!

I had the impression that the parent implied the situation was advantageous to both employees and companies yet in reality it's only advantageous to the companies.

If the salary is higher for the same position then the company has been underpaying you, if the salary is lower then they are trying to get someone on the cheap. Either way I'd want to know if this situation.

I'm not asking for an exact figure just a rough range as everything is always up for negotiation.

"Either way this does no good neither to you or the company." <- I have to disagree there, you should always know if you are underpaid or that your company tries to get similarly skilled individuals for lower salaries.

Not revealing salaries I think hurts companies recruitment processes more than they realise, how many great candidates passed on applying due to not wanting to have to dig a figure out of the company. I assume they think by not revealing salaries they'll get applicants who could command the highest rate they are willing to pay PLUS 30% more applying and being offered the job and then going 'yeah I'm fine to work for 30% less'.