How to find the right OE job
This is my first time here. I would like to ask my friends how to find a suitable remote job. I am tired of going to the office.
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unwilling-turquoise•11mo ago
Hey @Antipsychotic , Some pre requisite questions I would ask to better curate an answer would be :
1. What's your current profession / skillets
2. Years of experience
3. are you willing to up skill yourself assuming your profession is very manual
metropolitan-bronze•11mo ago
First of all thank you very much for giving me advice and I will describe my information to you. I am a software engineer. The development languages are Python and Golang, and I am learning Rust at the same time. I have been working for 5 years, so I want to find a job that allows me to work remotely to allow me to have more time. I am very happy to improve my skills to pursue more opportunities.
unwilling-turquoise•11mo ago
@Antipsychotic
Hey, so I have a bit of time to do a small write up.
So great, you're as close to tech as you possibly can. We actually have similar skillsets (i'm a huge go fanatic).
I'll structure this response in two categories, one to ask more questions, and one to actually start giving you a few answers so we can keep the ball rolling.
I want to ask, in the 5 years of experience, how have you fared going into "big tech" type companies? Companies like dropbox, atlassian, pinterest, heck we can go further to snowflake, snapchat, or even the faang companies? Have you gotten past the recruiter phase? Hiring manager phase? Panel interviews? This tells me a bit about current limitations and worldview of the swe world you're in. (For example there are some SWEs that are stuck in the software consulting world of WITCH, or they're in startup hell).
Another question i'd ask is: What are your current challenges in finding a remote role? Most folks who have your problem are NOT software engineers or in tech and have an extremely hard barrier to cross. At face value, it looks like you're already there (see: https://golangjob.xyz/remote/jobs).
Now, to give an actual answer, i have a small write up specifically for c2c roles that i'll link in #How do I land C2C Contracts WITHOUT cold calling? . But adding on some more info:
1. You need to do more than just applying to careers site (assuming you do this). Reaching out to recruiters from those jobs on linkedin, reaching out to current employees, have an additional pipeline of individuals help. For every 10 people on blind asking how to get a role with anthropic or trying to find a remote role at some obscure cyber security company, the ones who tend to make it are the ones that do more than just applying on the careers side.
2. Dice has specific filters for remote, https://www.dice.com/jobs?q=golang&countryCode=US&radius=30&radiusUnit=mi&page=1&pageSize=20&filters.postedDate=ONE&filters.isRemote=true&language=en; i would encourage you to search for posts by today, and do that everyday, eventually being quick to these and ontop of them puts you closer on their radar.
3. In addition to linkedin job postings, try to actually search for POSTS, sort by LATEST. I've seen that there are a lot more roles that will actually reach back to you because you actually will talk to a person. For example https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=remote%20software&sortBy=%22date_posted%22 (you can view this incognito or not, but if you're logged in you get more curated search). Scroll through (I just used "remote software" as a keyword, but you can use "remote golang" or "remote python" and sort by latest) and reach out to the recruiters who are posting these jobs there and not on the job boards.
For #2 and #3, (and indeed) make sure to sort by latest and just grab the past day's worth and spend each day finding and applying.
4. It doesn't hurt applying for hybrid roles and asking for remote. Sometimes they're really just "day 1" onsites where you come by to see them in person and they'll hand you a laptop and then you will be remote. I've seen a handful of teams even in hybrid heavy places like Roblox do this.
5. This really should've been #1 but make sure your resume is in very good shape. Make sure your bullet points convey skillsets, impact, and exactly what you've done. Many people make the mistake of describing projects, or describing short sentences of what they did -- hoping to elaborate in interviews; dont make these mistakes. My resume is loosely based off of https://www.careercup.com/resume and it has been going well for the past decade or so including internships.
We can definitely keep going back and forth with getting a sense of your challenges and skillsets so I'll end my write up here 🙂 .
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dependent-tan•11mo ago
This is very good advice. I would also add to set up a LinkedIn, flesh it out, tag every job with all your skills and starting connecting with the recruiters of jobs you like. I would say don't bother connecting with recruiters who haven't been doing it for longer than 3 years (check their LinkedIn). Connect to coworkers you have a favorable opinion of. The reason for all these connections is so you show up in recuiter searches. This is also why you tag jobs and add descriptions. You want to win the keyword match war. Of course switch your status to looking for work and only make that visible to recruiters.
Personally, I haven't ever been able to get a job without a recruiting reaching out. I have a short list of recruiters I like. Keep notes on what recruiters have what. A good recruiter will keep tabs on you too. When you do this again, you can just directly reach out to the recruiters you liked.