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This will almost certainly echo what others are suggesting, but here's my recommendations: 1. Have a public portfolio of your projects. It's better to have code examples available, even if they're embarrassing. It's important that a remote job can know what they're getting when they hire you. If you have old vs new projects, mark which ones are newer so a remote hiring team can get a sense of your progress. 2. Be open about your experience level, both in personal projects and professionally. Don't try and puff yourself up, it will make for a very bad experience. That doesn't mean don't make yourself look good, but it means do it as honestly as possible. Remote work can mean you are more on your own with less support, so a company needs to know how much support hiring you actually means. 3. Less about being hired, and more about if you get hired: If possible, have an isolated place in your home where you can work, and only use it for work. When you are there, you are working, and if you're not there, you are not working. It's incredibly important to have a separation between your personal life and work life when you work from home. If you don't have this, your employer, whether intentional or not, will take advantage of you and your time. 4. Ask in your interview what a day at work looks like. Do you have standups? Who do you ask for help? Do you need to work with people in different timezones? How many people will you directly work with? Who is the person that tells you what you should work on? |