Last week, I was looped into a discussion around “what companies are remote-friendly”, “how to find a job when you are a remotie” and “what companies have a good remote culture?”. These questions are trickier than one might expect – after all, everyone will have their own definition of “good”.

My metric for deciding if a company has a good remote culture is a variation of the Net Promoter Score:

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“if you work remotely for a company, would you recommend the company to a friend?”

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If you don’t find a remote job by word-of-mouth referral from a friend, how can you find a job in a remote friendly company? I have been accumulating a few useful sites for remote job seekers, avoiding all the “make $$$ working from home” spam out there. After last week’s discussion, I realized I haven’t seen this list posted in any one place, so thought it worthwhile to post here. Without further ado, in no particular order, here goes:

• https://github.com/jessicard/remote-jobs/blob/master/README.md (interesting idea by @jessicard, asking people to nominate companies that they think are “remote friendly”. The companies I personally know of are all there – if you see anything missing, remember: pull-requests welcome!)
• http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=true
• https://www.linkedin.com/job/remote-jobs/ (seems to also list jobs that include the word “remote” in the job description, even if they require you to attend an office)
• http://jobs.remotive.io/
• https://remoteok.io/remote-startups (organized by company)
• https://remoteok.io/remote-jobss (organized by job-title)
• http://remotetechwork.com/
• https://weworkremotely.com/
• http://www.remotejobs.it/
• http://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/remote/
• https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/100-top-companies-for-remote-jobs/
• http://www.indeed.com/q-remote-jobs.html (use “remote” in keywords – and ignore the confusing location “Remote – OR”!)
• http://www.simplyhired.com/search?qo=remote
• http://skillcrush.com/2014/10/10/sites-finding-remote-work/ (list of job boards – some of which are listed here, some of which are obsolete or didn’t feel useful imho)

Some sites seemed more focused on freelancer / short term positions, which were less of interest to me at this time, so I’ve skipped most of those, and only listed a couple here for completeness:

• upwork.com (new name for merged elance.com and odesk.com)
• rev.com

Some of these sites are better then others in terms of how you search for “remote” jobs – for example, I think this needs a little UX love. But something is better then nothing. As I said in my presentation at Cultivate NYC, for job-listings posted on your own company website, simply having “remote welcome” in the job description is a great quick-and-easy start.

Hopefully, people find this list useful. Of course, if there’s any forums / job boards listing remote jobs that you see missing from here, please let me know.

(Thanks to @laurelatoreilly, @jessicard, @qethanm and @hwine for last week’s discussion.)
John.

http://oduinn.com/blog/2015/10/27/looking-for-job-in-remote-friendly-company/