If anything, remote can strengthen US's monopoly on global talent in the short-term.
The friction for US companies to attract global talent is now even lower. Now you don't even need to apply for an H1B visa to be physically in the US to work for a US company.
However, since the talent is not physically based in the US, this can be a great thing for countries everywhere in the long-run. GDPs are created remotely for countries around the world, and the knowledge these global talent gain by working with US companies will be dispersed around the world.
Hundreds of ecosystems will bloom around the world, leveling the playing field.
Given that the entire world won't be having offline events for a while, we've created a directory of all the virtual developer conferences, dev meetups, and hackathons that are accessible anywhere.
Learning and growing outside of work shouldn't stop while we're all working from home. And especially at this moment of social distancing, online events can keep us socially engaged and less isolated while working from home.
Please help us spread the word and add any virtual developer events to the directory!
We later realized that although they've gotten a good amount of upvotes & comments, actually many of them came from possible fake accounts / bots ... (fake photos, no past PH/twitter activities, etc)
While I'm amused, some of my colleagues were quite offended by this.
Our product manager, who wrote the original copy on Arc, had this comment upon seeing this:
"They actually copied our entire developer application form, I realized that because I was thinking, man they really wrote these like how I would talk in real life, it’s because I came up with all the wording and they just copied them verbatim…….well, they swapped out “cup of joe” for “cup of coffee”. This is highly upsetting"
You have IP rights around your video and copy but you're not in the business of selling videos and copy. You have X amount of dollars, Y amount of time- how much of that do you want to spend on pursuing the outrageous behavior of psychopaths, which itself is an unlimited resource?
You have to deliver a level of excellence which distinguishes you from all other entrants, including these unworthies. Supposedly you know how you're going to do that in a way which is defensible or at least very hard to duplicate. That implies there's something like a wicked problem at the heart of your business model which you know how to solve or you can deal with better than anyone else.
We're excited to announce Arc today! We aim to change the way we hire and work remotely.
My first startup SocialPicks (YC 07!) was actually a remote company back in 2006. I was based in the Bay Area, co-founder Keven was in Vancouver, and our lead dev Olivier was in Toronto. This was pre-Slack, pre-Zoom, pre-Trello. I guess we’re the OG’s of the remote world. Back then it was actually quite hard to grow our remote team, as this would require, essentially, trusting strangers on the internet to join us on the intense rollercoaster ride of startup life.
Fast forward to today: The bulk of remote hiring services are still focused on finding short-term freelancers, rather than thinking of remote work as a genuine full-time employment option. It’s clear that the friction of going remote is still too high for many organizations and individuals. This is why we are launching Arc today: to offer a complete remote hiring solution to find full-time remote developers and build remote engineering teams.
We're introducing Arc early to get feedback from the HN community. As we work to reduce the friction of hiring remotely for both sides of the hiring equation, we invite you - developers and organizations alike - to join us on this journey.
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CodementorX (https://hire.codementor.io) is an exclusive network where world-class developers can be hired for contractor positions or large freelance projects. We have over 7000+ vetted expert developers, including book authors, top Stack Overflow answerers, popular open source contributors, and engineers at top tech companies.
We’re currently looking for a few Mobile Developers (iOS, Android, Ionic) to work on a specific project.
Requirement:
- At least 20 hours per week of availability & Availability to work in US timezones
This is a remote opportunity. We’re looking for both full-time & part-time contractors.
The friction for US companies to attract global talent is now even lower. Now you don't even need to apply for an H1B visa to be physically in the US to work for a US company.
However, since the talent is not physically based in the US, this can be a great thing for countries everywhere in the long-run. GDPs are created remotely for countries around the world, and the knowledge these global talent gain by working with US companies will be dispersed around the world.
Hundreds of ecosystems will bloom around the world, leveling the playing field.
This is a great thing.