Part 3. How to pass the application process — You are one in 27 million. According to the Global Developer Population and Demographic Study, that is the number of developers worldwide now, that will increase to bizarre 45 million by 2030. Even though not all of them work remotely, the competition for remote tech jobs remains huge. The million-dollar…

Part 2. Tools to find the remote employer of your dreams — Legend has it that Steve Jobs found his first job as a video game maker in a newspaper, and Jack Dorsey just showed up in the office of a company and said he wanted to work for them. By 1997, about 20 percent of companies recruited online. Now a hiring…

Part 1. Lessons to learn before you start your job search — Every year the Oxford English Dictionary chooses a Word of the Year — a word that has become prominent or notable over the course of twelve months. This year something went wrong. The OED described 2020 as ‘a year that has left us speechless’, meaning a year that cannot be…

Hey, I’m Ksenia, Co-Founder of 6nomads! It’s Halloween, and I’m launching a series of investigative interviews with talent who have found work using our platform. What’s the connection to Halloween? I don’t know; I think I just needed some reason to start (and to do an homage to Scully!). So… I will…

To dive you into a topic, we usually give an inspirational quote from someone cool. This time will be no exception. “Our flexible-work philosophy is one reason we use the unique hiring process: we have to go to great lengths to identify people who will thrive in our culture. <…>…

“We’re passionate about what we do, not about working schedules.” — As the 6nomads team, we decided that we wanted to organize something special again and, thus, we bring you Remote founder stand-ups:) The idea is simple: no perfect slides, no spotless speeches repeated dozens of times, no discussing the obvious. Instead, we want to initiate friendly, remote startup Founder, CEO…

This is an updated version of Vol.1 “It’s clear that Covid has changed a lot about our lives, and that certainly includes the way that most of us work,” Zuckerberg said, announcing that half of the company’s employees would work from home. Google told employees that many workers who can…

“If we increase the load, we would be learning where our system falls apart, but we wouldn’t be learning about what the user needs in particular. So we try to keep the load down.” — As the 6nomads team, we decided that we wanted to organize something special again and, thus, we bring you Remote founder stand-ups:) The idea is simple: no perfect slides, no spotless speeches repeated dozens of times, no discussing the obvious. Instead, we want to initiate friendly, remote startup Founder, CEO…

Rules, tools, articles — A. Daily stand-up meetings B. Retrospectives C. Communication standards D. Icebreakers E. Water Cooler Finding the best ways to communicate with your team is imperative when you’re not working face-to-face, because you’re missing most — if not all — of the context of each person’s situation. А. Daily stand-up meetings The daily cadence ensures…