How I failed to land a remote position
Let me tell you something I learnt myself about remote job positions:<p>- Competition for each position is fierce. Especially for the SF-type jobs where the salaries are so astronomical compared to your remote area (like Greece, India, Thailand, etc.). You may have some (or even a lot) of experience in some tech, but so would the other 50-500 applications for that position. This puts the ball in the court of the employer, because they use stupid filters like &quot;the right fit&quot; - which most of the time equates to finding the person they can extract the most value from per-dollar (or the 1 who kills their wannabe-Google interview process the best)<p>- As someone reading your blog post, even I did not make it past your full email text. It&#x27;s just too long for HR to even bother. A shorter, concise, &quot;get in your face&quot; email sometimes works better<p>- HR filters are the worst way to get remote positions. You said you have friends working for remote-first companies like Github and Automattic - that should have been your first method of entry to go direct to the team itself and not need to get through HR first - if you&#x27;re a great programmer and your friends know it, they will gladly recommend you