A possibility opened up for remote work to come out of the niche into the mainstream.
But I’m sad because I see how big tech corporations are already forcing (maybe a bit strong word here, but it seems like this from what I see in the news) their employees back to office.
What can happen, if people have the courage, is that these people who want to work remotely but their company won’t let them, will change their job.
And here’s my small contribution—a tool to choose a new company who works remotely.
I’m curious about your thoughts on big tech corporation remote policies?
Luckily, there are other big co's who embrace remote, like Twitter who says: work remotely, permanently.
And I'm not saying that hey big co's, close your offices. I'm just saying that please give the option for your employees to decide themselves.
For me, it's about freedom, really.
But where's the freedom when Google says that you'll have to formally apply for up to 12 months of remote work in “the most exceptional circumstances."
And I feel that currently we still have the window open – remote work can come out of the niche into the mainstream as we just had the catalyst as a COVID outbreak.
Opportunity like this may never come again... or at least for a very long time.
/rant over
PS. I actually wrote about this "niche to mainstream" movement here in more detail just a few days ago: https://remotehunt.com/blog/big-tech-is-killing-remote-work
But for companies like GitLab it’s quite hard to keep it updated. So many locations!
Another thing which is not necessarily very relevant probably but confusing to me. I see a lot of IaaS or SaaS, companies that are doing things like Wordpress in containers for example. And then there are icons all over the world, which presumably represent programming jobs? Or if not programming, highly technical.
Its hard for me to understand why it takes 30+ programmers to build and maintain software related to WordPress in containers, or many of these other businesses. I can definitely understand 5, or maybe even 10. But 20,30,40? Are some of these cities representing support roles, like customer service?
And we are currently hiring.
What kind of work do you want to do?
My third choice would probably be something using JavaScript, Reason or BuckleScript, since I have focused the last several years on JavaScript mainly in the back end and before that mainly on the front end. And although TypeScript is fine, my preference would be to have type inference and the few projects I have done with Ocaml have been enjoyable.
I also have some projects over the years with C++, such as Vintage Simulator (programmable emulator frontend), but my C++ has remained pretty basic over time, and due to numerous pitfalls in the language, I would almost prefer to learn Rust (despite my distate for the poor ergonomics that plagued it early on).
You can contact me at runvnc@gmail.com if you want to discuss anything.
