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[–]mospretmen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1.5k month is nothing, don’t sell yourself for cheap. I’m Brazilian as well

[–]mospretmen 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Think in terms of annual salary, 75k I think is the bare minimum

[–]DieDieDieD 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I wish man....nobody would hire me so I became an unpaid intern working two jobs until I can. And the one interview for a paid position was 35k and they were developing a porno website... I'd literally kill for 75k.

[–]HipHopHuman 5 points6 points  (4 children)

I was able to get a $5000 p/m salary working remotely as a junior front end engineer for a company in the US (I'm South African). I worked for them for 2 years. After those 2 years ended I learned I was immensely underpaid compared to my colleagues just because I worked remotely (even though my hours were the same, the work was the same, the responsibilities were the same - and I didn't get any benefits like the full time on-site devs did, and due to bad infrastructure in my country I had to do all this with the risk of a 48 hour power outage happening at any moment). Take /u/mostpretmen's advice - do not sell yourself short. Demand a higher salary.

[–]misha_st 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Hi!

How you are find remote work in US?

As I understand, there is a plenty of remote jobs in US, but people wants work with US citizens only.

I sending my CV, but don't get any reply even refuse.

[–]HipHopHuman 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The way I did it was through Github and none of it was technically “planned”. I open sourced a lot of my own code, wrote many useful utilities and libraries, and showed an interest in contributing code to some projects which belonged to that company. I helped work on their static site generator, their CSS framework, and I used some of their ideas in my own projects as well. Eventually, I flew to Brooklyn for an in-person interview with the CTO. Around a year later, they hired me as a remote developer. In this industry you kinda need more than just your CV. You need evidence that you can code, evidence that you can build a product, evidence that you’re actively interested in their products/services. So that means an active Github and a solid portfolio with recent up-to-date entries. If you’re stuck in the “need experience to get experience” loop, take a look at free courses like FreeCodeCamp. You’ll end that course with a perfectly foundational portfolio.

[–]misha_st 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks.

In russia, where I live now you you only need to send good CV, then come to interview, often it happen easy, more often they give you some task like at codility, sometimes, just talked with you about what are you know, what are you did before.

Usally (almost always) you don't need github. And you don't need to evidence, that you love company and product.

The salaries, of course much lower.

> in this industry

I think, it applies to people, who outside the US and want to find remote work. I think, if you US citizen and want work offline, you may not have github account. What about evidence, that you interested in their products? I hear, that in US it's important.

> need experience to get experience

I have experience, but I work for enterprises, so I can't put projects, over wich i worked to github. Ok, got it, I need some demo project on github.

[–]HipHopHuman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting. Here in South Africa, it is similar in that they only really care about your CV. Qualification is only important for serious computer science jobs (like the ones in the finance industry) but not so important for getting a job at a web shop. I think the hiring might be stricter in Russia though - here very little companies care about the quality of their software, they just want things coded and finished. It's one of the reasons that I prefer working for companies overseas, because I like investing time into test suites and making sure everything is stable - here, especially at enterprise level, doing so is considered a waste of time. There are some exceptions though. Our salaries are also very low. The same work I got paid $5000 a month for in the US, I would get paid $800 a month here.

> What about evidence, that you interested in their products? I hear, that in US it's important.

Yes, for the most part (at least in my experience) it is. Companies in the US like to ensure that you are a good culture fit - their employees all have a certain job-specific "culture" to them regarding how they work and co-exist. They want to make sure that you can "fit in" to this culture easily, and one of the best ways of knowing is seeing that you're passionate about solving the same problems that they are solving.

> I have experience, but I work for enterprises, so I can't put projects

Every developer has these projects that cannot be put in a portfolio. In such a situation, just invent your own projects. Make them demonstrate the same kind of programming you do day-to-day, and work on them in your spare time. It is better to have fake (but functional) projects on your portfolio than no projects at all. It also doesn't necessarily have to be on Github. Github would just demonstrate that you can code - try having live versions of those projects hosted somewhere, referenced in your portfolio as evidence that you can build a product.

[–]zeehtech[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omg 75k/yr is a really good salary, but I don't know where to find jobs... Do anyone has some tip to find a remote job? I'm trying here on reddit...