Extreme Telecommuting

wiredog writes: "The Washington Post has an article about a company in Chantilly Virginia, most of whose programmers telecommute from Novosibirsk, Russia." Anyone out there in a similarly distant job?

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[Ex Machina]

I appears that some crapflooder commute from the Christmas Islands!

A kind of reverse-telecommuting

[smagruder]

A little over a year ago, I moved to Fremont, CA from North Carolina to take a regular (non-telecommuting) senior development job at a 4-yr-old software startup. After the not-unexpected layoff this past January, I almost immediately became a telecommuting developer for a software startup near Pittsburgh, PA. Imagine this: Working in California but for a Pennsylvania company. A couple years ago, this would have sounded very strange, as the reverse makes a whole lot more sense!

Since this was my first telecommuting position, there were a lot of things to adjust to. First, I had to spend a few months away from home (and my spouse) working in PA (with a harsh winter... well to me, anyway) to learn about the requirements, designs and code I was to work on. Second, I didn't exactly have a home office that was suitable or comfortable enough for doing all-day software development at home. Thus, there was quite a large investment of travel time and expenses just to get it all going.

But of course, with the recent slowdown in the jobs market, I've come to the conclusion that I need to add more short-term or part-time contracts to the mix, in case the current job goes south. If anyone is looking for an excellent Delphi developer with 12 years of overall experience who rarely faced a challenge he couldn't handle, take a look at my resume... you won't be disappointed.