Re:Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?
by spoiledtechie on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @11:18AM
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I couldn't agree more that their interviewing is terrible.
Re:Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?
by bnt on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @11:31AM
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Were you interviewing for one of the Core developer teams (the ones actually building Toptal), or for Toptal to work as a freelance developer (to work on Client projects)?
Toptal has a lot of open (internal) positions and their interview process is different than when applying to work on Toptal as a freelancer. Everyone on the Core development team is remote.
Re:Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?
by spoiledtechie on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @12:41PM
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Freelance work.
In addition to all this, you will get a much lower rate than you're expecting. While it's true that you set your own rate, they basically told me if I don't charge at the same below-salary rates as the rest of the people on their network, they won't send business my way.
So huge waste of time on the interview, plus you'll make less than a salaried position for the advantage of sporadic work and no benefits. Stay away if you know what's good for you!