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A list of vendors at the PyCon job fair that hire remotely

by kungfooey on 4/14/14, 12:32 AM with 15 comments

• by phantom_oracle on 4/14/14, 1:05 AM

  There's just one issue with the survey (although this is fucking brilliant!):

  You should have first defined what "Remote" means.

  A company could be willing to hire remote, but to them remote could mean somebody within the area who can drop by the office from time to time.

  Still, I am very impressed by your efforts.

• by dochtman on 4/14/14, 6:05 AM

  Hmm, I didn't think Facebook did actual remote hiring. At least on their Careers site, their jobs seem pretty attached to locations. At least one random Software Engineering job said it required being on location.

• by cmg_mo on 4/14/14, 12:19 PM

  I am a current employee at Cox Media and can say that our team has a large percentage of full-time remote folks. We've got devs and from Portland to DC and many major cities in between. All remote employees come in to Atlanta at the same time once a year for "homecoming" but there is no expectation for regular travel outside of that. Communication is primarily a cross between irc or teamspeak as well as other tools and we can do fully remote interviews also.

  We are looking for solid python and django devs and we are actively trying to fill several positions. I am a python dev who has been with Cox for almost a year and can answer any questions.

  Check out the job description here: http://cmgd-jobs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/developer.html

• by lifeisstillgood on 4/14/14, 8:11 AM

  I am a big proponent of remote hiring and working - good for the developer, and if done right, good for the company.

  But boy it takes some work to get a remote worker as productive and plugged in as an onsite worker.

  But the very minute the whole company is not on one site, remote is the only way to go. Got two sites and no remote ethos - congratulations you now have two companies. Got two floors on the same building and no remote ethos - hooray, two companies.

  it's a management and cultural shift - measuring by results, good upfront grooming, in estment in tools, reducing schedule pressure, quality above all else - the list is long

• by pincubator on 4/14/14, 5:34 AM

  It is interesting to see big companies like LinkedIn, Twitter, HP showed some interest in hiring remotely. Not sure if they would consider hiring a regular software developer remotely. Their answer mostly make me think of "Well, in case there is an extraordinary hacker that we can benefit, we might think of offering a remote job".

• by sunir on 4/14/14, 2:51 PM

  Olark live chat was at PyCon (no booth) and we hire remotely.

  In fact, sometimes very remotely like the far flung islands of Scotland, though we tend to want to pop in! :)

  https://www.olark.com/jobs