It’s been a hard week for many in the tech industry. News of massive layoffs affective immediate have fulled the news feeds. We kinda pivoted from the Great Resignation back in January to its Massive Layoffs sequel in a blink of an eye.

According to layoffs.fyi data 48,803 employees have been laid off by 325 startups in the past 6 months only. Uber alone has laid off 6,000 people, Getir and Booking.com 4,375 people. < that was in 2020 and thanks to one of my subscribers for pointing this out. 2022 year’s champions are Getir, Better(dot)com, Peloton 2-4K people laid off in each.

Despite the wake of layoffs, just a quick reminder that there are still many amazing jobs out there and you just need one. You will definitely find one that suits you! I have no doubt!

My goal is to help you feel as supported as possible if you have been affected or if you have to search for a new job in these unlucky times.

So I’ve compiled up a list of resources that could help you navigate your way through this.

How to Navigate Being Laid Off: The Ultimate Layoff Playbook by David Fano from Teal
https://www.tealhq.com/post/how-to-navigate-layoff-ultimate-layoff-playbook

Resume Builder by Teal — update your resume with this great tool
https://www.tealhq.com/tools/resume-builder

Unicorn startups of 2022 — some of them are hiring
https://www.hubspot.com/startups/unicorn-startups

Digital Garage Courses by Google — use this time to enhance your skills
https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage/courses

Deel — sign up as a contractor
https://www.deel.com/

I’m working on creating a proper website for my curated job listings and I’m stuck at figuring out the design for it.

But while I’m searching for ways to outsource that part, I ran into this design agency that is hiring globally remotely. So today is for Superside.

Hurry up to apply and share them with your friends!

3D Motion Education Lead

Business Development Representative (Mid Market)

Creative Director

Creative Project Manager

Data Analyst

Data Engineer

Demand Generation Manager

Design Directors

Digital Content Producer: Copy & Digital Marketing

Director of Content Marketing

Director of Performance

Director of Product Design

Director of Product Marketing

Engineering Manager

Executive Talent Acquisition Partner

Global Sales Account Executive

Graphic Designers & Senior Graphic Designers

Head of Product-Led Content Marketing

Innovation & Strategy Manager

Innovation Service Designer

“What level of English do I need to work remotely with international companies?” This is the most frequent question I get about remote work.

I usually answer that it should be confident and it’d be good to have some prior experience communicating with foreigners. But what is considered “confident”? It doesn’t mean you should speak it perfectly well with no mistakes, mistakes are ok as long as they don’t make it hard for people to understand you.

Your speech can be very simple but it should be fluent enough for people to understand you with no extra effort your comprehension skills should be strong enough so that you could understand both what people ask of you both verbally and in writing.

There is no secret sauce to learning languages other than frequent practice but there is a way to speed it up and maximize the progress over time by either moving to an environment where where people speak this language or by at least taking lessons from a native speaker.

I’ve partnered up with Antishkola to tell you about the benefits of learning foreign languages with teachers who are native speakers. I have shared my experience and thoughts and I hope they are helpful.

You can also use my code to REMOTEEVERAFTER to get an additional lesson if you sign up for any of their courses.
Disclaimer, the article is in Russian. Here is the link to the article.

I hear many people complain about constant changes when they are working in startups. To me I find a lot of contradiction in this. In tech industry change is the only constant, change is inherent.

All businesses even the largest and most successful ones have to adopt to change if they are looking to continue to succeed. Today’s example of this is Porsche Engineering.

They are looking to continue developing their self-driving cars and they are hiring a few engineering positions, a project manager and a head of Calibration & Diagnistics with relocation. English is mandatory requirement, German is a good to have but can be obtained while working there.

Porsche Engineering is hiring through SAMSONOWA & Partners agency for these positions. So send your CVs and cover letters with subject Porsche Engineering_Application to team@samsonowa.com.

I have a direct contact at SAMSONOWA & Partners and they are willing to consider people from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus as well as other countries for relocation. Job descriptions are all in German but here is an English translation for them English Translation for all positions

Stellenanzeige: Leiter Fachdisziplin Kalibration & Diagnose

Stellenanzeige: Projektleiter (m/w/d) für die Entwicklung von Infotainmentsysteme

Stellenanzeige: Projektingenieur (m/w/d) Integration und Inbetriebnahme von Fahrwerk-Softwaresystemen

Stellenanzeige: Projektingenieur Software für hochautomatisierte Fahrfunktionen

Stellenanzeige: Projektingenieur (m/w/d) KI-basierte Funktionen für hochautomatisiertes Fahren

Stellenanzeige: Funktionsentwickler Connected Infotainment

Stellenanzeige: Funktionsentwickler (m/w/d) hochautomatisierte Fahrfunktionen

With large-scale machine learning model like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Google’s Imagen being in center attention of tech media, a new buzzword has emerged —AI-as-a-service.

Small businesses and creators turn to “AI-as-a-service” vendors to do the work that could cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars if they decide to do in in-house.

One such vendor is AssemblyAI, which focuses specifically on speech-to-text and text analysis services. They have recently raised their series B funding and are hiring globally.

Hurry up to apply and share the opportunities with your friends.

Staff Deep Learning Researcher, Speech

Senior Backend Engineer, Python (DL Research Framework)

Senior Software Engineer, MLOps

Staff Software Engineer, MLOps

Deep Learning Researcher, NLP

Senior Software Engineer, Python

Staff Software Engineer, Python

Developer Educator, Machine Learning

Lead Product Designer

API Support Engineer

Enterprise Account Manager, APIs

Growth Account Manager, APIs

Sales Development Representative (SDR)

Enterprise Account Executive, APIs

Growth Account Executive, APIs

Sales Engineer

New people keep joining the channel and I’d like to make it explicitly obvious as for how you can maximize the value you get from this channel and increase the number of opportunities you are applying for.

1) Search for the title of the job that you are looking for? E.g “designer”, odds are that the companies that had those jobs previously happen to be hiring for similar roles again.

2) Go through websites of the companies I’ve shared earlier and check if they have any open positions you are interested in.

From time to time I do a shoutout for companies that have talked about before and today is such a day. Today is for Hotjar. They are building a Behavior Analytics software for businesses selling online. Most of the roles are for people based in UTC-1 to UTC+3 but there is one based in the US — Site Reliability Engineer.

They are also famous for their generous perks package. You can learn about them from one of their current team member’s tiktok video.

Hurry up to apply and share it with your friends!

(Senior) UX Researcher (EMEA)

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (EMEA)

Head of Brand Design (EMEA)

Software Engineering Lead, Authentication & Security (EMEA)

Monetization Analyst (EMEA)

Sales Data Analyst (EMEA)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Americas)

Software Engineering Team Lead (EMEA)

Staff Software Engineer - Frontend (EMEA)

Software Engineer, Application Security (EMEA)

Associate Customer Success Manager (EMEA)

Customer Support Specialist (EMEA)

Product Marketing Team Lead (EMEA)

SEO Content Strategist (EMEA)

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (EMEA)

Sales Operations Coordinator (EMEA)

Sales Operations Coordinator (Americas)

Sales Specialist - Existing Accounts (Americas)

Sales Development Team Manager (EMEA or Americas)

I can’t get used to the fact that we are already living in the future of technologies: self-driving trucks, deciphering human DNA structure. While I’m struggling with creating consistent video content for my Youtube and TikTok, AI has learned to create videos with human-like avatars.

So today is for Synthesia. They are building a web-based platform for creating videos with AI avatars. They are hybrid and hiring for a few remote positions every now and then. They’ve raised over $65M in funding. They are also willing to consider relocation options.

I’m not gonna waste any more of your time and instead I’ll link a video of their avatar doing it for me. Enjoy and let me know what you think about it.

Every position a video like that. Be sure to check the video out even if the positions do not suit you.

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack

Hey guys!

I have deleted the post about Saturday morning voice chat announcement. That was posted by mistake from my drafts 😃!

Lesson is not to schedule posts at 3 in the morning 😂

I will definitely be setting something up for us to chat over the resume game in the near future.

Please stay tuned!

What I love about learning new things is having to learn to use new tools and connecting with people from the that new domain. I’ve recently discovered music licensing platforms for myself (stocks? not realy sure what the proper name for them is). I mean discovered in way that I actually figured I need to subscribe to one.

The first thing, I did wasn’t actually checking out their paylists but checking out their careers page. That particular company didn’t have fully remote positions but that gave me an idea to check their competitors’ pages. And voilà, I’m happy to share openings by Musicbed marked with remote-first label. Good luck!

Social Media Manager

Marketing Director

Senior Software Engineer, Front End

Software Engineer, Back End

​​I recently ran into this tweet where the author was experimenting with the new GPT3 and Midjourney.

I think this is crazy cool and I was thinking of trying exactly the same when I read the news about GPT3. I think this is a brilliant idea and you can take it even further. Hook the entire thing up to a plotter or a print on demand service and you’ve got a ready made business.

Anyway, I signed up for the Midjourney account and of course the next thing I did was I checked their jobs page. Turned out they are a fully independent research lab. Yeah, a lab! That’s what they call themselves. They are self-funded, fully distribute, and hiring!

According to their LinkedIn the entirety of their team is located in the US but they make it clear in their job posting that they are hiring globally! Hurry up to apply and share these with your friends!

AI Researcher at Midjourney

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Discord Bot Developer

Frontend Developer

Fullstack Developer

As a remote worker, I ran into a problem with consistently overworking and tending to prefer to spend additional hour at my laptop instead of going for a walk. Over a year a go I figured it was pretty consistent and I realized it is a problem. So I started looking for ways to solve it. The quality of my work was also declining because it is hard to be focused for longer than 5 hours a day.

I think I was able to figure out a way to trick my brain into doing personal projects instead of clocking an extra hour at work. So I recorded a video to I explain the idea behind my #insteadOfCommute projects that help me achieve work-life balance while working remotely full time. Shared the projects that I’ve completed and the one that I’m working on right now.

I’m looking forward to your frank reviews in the comments because it is the first video I filmed with my new Sony camera. I’d appreciate any tips and tricks on how to improve the quality of the video, sound etc.. https://youtu.be/UbA-kNDs-mo

One of the things I’m impressed by in Georgia is how they almost tamed bureaucracy. They seem to have simplified most of standard paperwork procedures to the bare minimum of effort that you need to have things done for you.

So no wonder I was really happy to learn about Vic.ai. They are building an AI-powered product aimed at automating accounting tasks. They claim to have helped 10,000+ customers achieve nearly $188 million in cost savings and 6 million hours in time savings. They have just raised a $52 million C-round and it is areally good time to join them.

Vic.ai is jointly headquartered in New York City, Miami, and Oslo, Norway. They are a remote-first company and work across all 4 US time zones and 2 EU time zones. They have an office in Manhattan, New York, and Miami.

DevOps Engineer EU
https://boards.greenhouse.io/vicai/jobs/4782566003

Quality Assurance Analyst
https://boards.greenhouse.io/vicai/jobs/5229548003

Director of Product Marketing
https://boards.greenhouse.io/vicai/jobs/5205039003

Email & Performance Marketing Manager
https://boards.greenhouse.io/vicai/jobs/5205141003

Senior Product Manager
https://boards.greenhouse.io/vicai/jobs/4580711003

Enterprise Sales Development Representative
https://boards.greenhouse.io/vicai/jobs/5230772003

Enterprise Sales Representative
https://boards.greenhouse.io/vicai/jobs/4740564003

VP of Sales
https://boards.greenhouse.io/vicai/jobs/5424578003

It was a surprise for me 1.5 years ago that you can build native iOS and Android apps with no code. It was even of a more surprise to learn that such apps raise funding and get acquired.

My new video is on why you should consider learning how to build apps with no code tools. It will help you ramp up on what opportunities that exist in no-code, what rates other no-coders charge, and where you start and how you can use no-code to break into tech.

If you found it helpful, please re-post and share with people who might find it interesting and valuable. https://youtu.be/ot4SuN2v1ck

I see a lot of people shrugging off new tools including AI tools that are being hyped up right now. So I recorded a video about ChatGPT. I see a parallel with other implied competences that used to be new tools once. Let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/KF9MUdEeMyI

Finally a video about remote jobs on my channel. I’m showing the ways I do my due diligence when considering a job at a startup.

Startups fail most of the time but there are ways to minimize the risks of joining a company that is already going under if you do a proper research and to choose a startup that will at least last for the time that you are working with them.

I’ve been working with tech startups remotely for over 6 years and have always tried to follow these simple steps when shortlisting the jobs I’d apply for.

One of the things is to make sure the startup you're joining has raised a funding round a few months prior to you joining them. This way you make sure that it is good for at least the next 2 or 3 years before you move on.

Watch the video to learn about the most important criteria and to pick up a list of resources posting legit startup jobs. If you find it helpful, I'd appreciate a comment and a like under the video. https://youtu.be/8K8gRr06K9M

Today is a very exciting day for the Adalo team and myself. For those who are new here, I’ve been working as a QA Analyst with Adalo for over a year now.

We released Adalo 2.0 today. It the first large product release where my contribution is publicly acknowledged as compared to when I was working for an outstaff company. It is a formality that turned out to be an important one for me.

Adalo 2.0 is a no-code builder that allows to build cross-platform apps with no-code. These apps can be published as web apps, as well as iOS or Android native apps. All with no coding needed. I’m really exciting to share this news with you here. 🚀

If you have just a second, please support us on Product Hunt https://producthunt.com/posts/adalo-2-0. Thank you!

For the past year, I’ve been struggling with understanding where I stand as a professional and where I want to head.

In my previous jobs I'd learn new things naturally by just accepting any challenges that I'd come across. That is absolutely great and a working strategy when you are just starting your career.

Now I feel like the opportunities are infinite and I'd like to do some intentional planning and studying as I'm working towards my goal of broadening my technical expertise.

I spent some time making an inventory of my skills and experience. I came across this roadmap tool that helped me visualize my experience in a new way. https://roadmap.sh/roadmaps

It highlighted the things I've forgotten I once worked with and the things I'm kinda battling with, the things I'd like to learn some day and I think I now know what I should focus on in the near future.

They seem pretty accurate and up-to-date. There is a large community behind the project. For each item in the roadmap there is a list of recommended resources where anyone can contribute.

The tool is free, be sure to check it out. They've got roadmaps for all kinds of engineering roles as well as for QA, DevOps, UX Designers, and since most recently for Prompt Engineers. Pretty cool, huh?