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Extreme Telecommuting

Posted by timothy on from the this-ain't-elbonia dept.

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?

10 of 370 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp,

  2. frost pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it hurts and stuff.

  3. First by SpanishInquisition · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Post from Russia

    --
    Je t'aime Stéphanie
  4. sp by robsmama · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second post

    1. Re:sp by robsmama · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      crap!!

  5. Well by Ex+Machina · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I appears that some crapflooder commute from the Christmas Islands!

  6. Chantilly Lace by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Chantilly Lace had a pretty face and a ponytail hangin' down
    A wiggle in her walk and a giggle in her talk
    Make the world go 'round

    Ain't nothing in the world like a big eyed girl
    To make me act so funny, make me spend my money
    Make me feel real loose like a long necked goose
    Like a--oh baby, that's a-what I like!

    What's that, baby?
    But... but... but... oh, honey!
    Oh baby, you know what I like!

  7. Re:Taking advantage of the developers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How the fuck is this insightful. BAHAHA! What fucking morons. ROFL.

  8. Re:Does it matter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    (in Buffalo, NY)

    Fuck you. I fucking hate Buffalo. I hope all you upstate New Yorkers fucking die.

  9. A kind of reverse-telecommuting by smagruder · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

    --
    Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist