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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by boppo1 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:44AM (#29614765)
How do I reach this level of confidence in programming ability?
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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by treeman79 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:13AM (#29615027)
Automate everything. Regardless if it saves time or not. Pickup a good scripting language. Ruby or python.

Spend time with business people on “why” they are doing something.

Learn Excel.

After awhile you will be incredibly good at highly useful business process stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by the_only_law on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:01PM (#29616383)
I wonder if this stuff pays well though. I recall someone showing me a position at Jane Street (since this thread was discussing HFTs) with at was looking for a VBA developer to develop some sort of integrations between their APIs and Excel sheets I guess someone in the company loved.

My first though was “there’s no way this is paying what you typically see for Jane Street developer salaries”.

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by treeman79 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @02:42PM (#29617526)
Payed crap. It setup me up for success.

Learned more in demand stuff and my pay is top notch.

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