Ask HN: Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs?

usrme · 2025-04-09T08:31:11 1744187471

I recently came across Remote Yeah[1], but I can't vouch for its viability personally. It might help discover some companies who are at least willing to go down the remote route.

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[1]: https://remoteyeah.com/

davedx · 2025-04-09T08:29:31 1744187371

Hacker News monthly threads. Frequencies of Remote jobs in there rises and falls, some months have more than others. But a lot (almost all) of my income over the last few years has been from HN or references thereof

TheCapeGreek · 2025-04-09T08:17:47 1744186667

Global remote has been on a bit of a downturn in the last few years.

There are many decent job boards out there, but the bigger problem is that many of them don't allow specifying remote within a country, or the US-oriented companies that post on them never specify that they only want remote within the US.

You end up wasting time looking at a cool job that pays well, only to see "Remote (US only)".

Nextgrid · 2025-04-09T08:17:30 1744186650

In addition to the (real, but somewhat overblown) downturn in tech, the main problem is that hiring is fucked. Both sides are in a scam/fraud arms race.

Getting a job through the front door is basically impossible now - and if you want to try, you will need to lie and do all the dirty tricks your competition does, and even then, your conversion rate will be minuscule.

An alternative is either to go through your network (where people you know can vouch that you are real and not just a monkey slinging ChatGPT'd resumes from a boiler room) or in-person (which is immune to a lot of the boiler-room scams and thus you have more chance your application will actually be considered).

davedx · 2025-04-09T08:31:09 1744187469

Not my experience (did job hunt a couple of months back).

Standards are quite high, and the economy obviously isn’t great, but it’s not as bad as that.

I have found signal to noise on LinkedIn to be quite bad now but that’s specific to that site IME.

liampulles · 2025-04-09T08:17:26 1744186646

I'm South African, and international remote work seems to be popping up more these days on local job sources. Probably because we're relatively cheap.

Just worth thinking about what a company is looking for if they are looking at a foreign talent pool.

fxtentacle · 2025-04-09T08:04:36 1744185876

There are quite a lot of interesting short-term consulting gigs on Upwork. But for anything long term, you should probably ask around among the people that already know you.

Nextgrid · 2025-04-09T08:12:59 1744186379

Assuming you're based in the West, a fast-food joint will pay more than Upwork.

Codespoon · 2025-04-09T07:39:11 1744184351

I think you have to go via your network referral. I've bought linkedin premium and can see that most jobs have 500+ candidates, not only it's impossible to apply but I have serious doubts they will chose the right person. I failed my last interview because I failed to sell myself.

davedx · 2025-04-09T08:32:23 1744187543

I’ve heard from people in hiring that often 490/500 of those candidates will be from India and often aren’t actually eligible for the job. Just apply, it’s partly a numbers game.

mahmoudhossam · 2025-04-09T08:10:20 1744186220

levels.fyi has a job board with a "Fully remote" filter, might be worth checking out.

madsohm · 2025-04-09T08:18:42 1744186722

I find that a lot of their "fully remote" positions are only remote if you live in the US.

mahmoudhossam · 2025-04-09T08:24:06 1744187046

I think you can get around that by choosing locations outside the US

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