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Come work with me on a small yet growing accessibility team at Spotify! (London / Stockholm) Are you passionate about engineering and tackling cross-platform reaching issues? Working with groups to drive changes that you know will be felt, seen, and heard by all our users once done? This is the place for you. Our Senior Engineer role is open.
Bonus: You'll get to work with an amazing nerd such as myself and we'll talk AT and AI all day. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/senior-… #jobs #A11Y
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JamminJerry
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I bet you have to have lots of experiance on that. smile.
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Casey Reeves
Casey Reeves
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Real shame it's not remote. I'm not an expert but since I live day to day with disabilities of my own, that could have been rather cool to work there. Hmph.

Like, I'm not pretending I would know how to fix a problem but I could have put ideas on the table at least.

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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@xogium it does say Remote eligible :) Could be worth a shot to apply you never know, it's a harder gig for being at senior-level but someone with a strong QA+ engineering background who has had like 5 years experience+ working at consulting or smaller gigs doing that could probably fit still too
@Casey Reeves
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Casey Reeves
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Huh, weird. I haven't seen the remote part. I might have missed it though? I saw london or stocolm.

Fun fact: I wanted to help in making the nextcloud accessibility better, as a tester as well as throwing new ideas on the table to improve the experience. Since I have disabilities myself, I know exactly what disabled users might be facing, you know? They booted me off because I can't code.

I have the feeling this job however isn't asking for coding so much as testing and actual suggestions for improvements. Reviewing code isn't the same as coding it myself, if that makes sense?

I have no prior experience as any sort of accessibility tester, or engineering, because I was never let looss, basically. :D

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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@xogium darn. Maybe not. It does say on the page "Are you interested in working out of any of the following office locations? Our job description will have location eligibility for the role. If the role is remote eligible and you wish to be remote, please leave blank." I just don't think they expose that as a choice for the job application on this position, quite a shame as it was there when I was hired on.
@Casey Reeves
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Casey Reeves
Casey Reeves
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Yeah... Doesn't seem like they do. It's really dumb imo. Oh well.
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@tardis @xogium so many companies are rolling them back, it's a bit shocking. So far I guess Spotify is doing that for new hires (not sure if it's some or all jobs though, I can't say 100%,) I just hope they keep me on as remote because moving to either London, Stockholm or the NYC offices would really make me look around at that point. Remote was one of the reasons I was so comfortable taking it when I began.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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I see. Well, for now I'm remote. I don't look forward to not being remote, otherwise I'll have to leave the company I just started working for.
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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Nice, didn't know you worked there. I'd be up for this if I was looking for a job and willing to move. The lack of remote-first vibes is disappointing though.
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@jscholes That part even shocked me considering I'm in the US (So our team would have a London/EU split) but maybe they're wanting another engineer who works in that region so someone is awake for the EU timezones during the day and not just afternoon like I am. No indication that they're getting rid of remote work considering how distributed teams are and have been at Spotify since it started in 2006, but who knows with how tech companies are going.
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Mendi Evans
Mendi Evans
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Is this a remote job?
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@Mendi_Tech I wish - for now it's scoped to London and Stockholm. Time will tell sadly not - scoped to London and Stockholm. If you're in either of those, you'd have a chance to do home-mix between part-time office and work, though.
@Mendi Evans
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Nikos Demetriou
Nikos Demetriou
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Hi. If you need accessibility testers either on desktop or ios, I would be happy to help even for free. It would be a great experience for me.
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@bermudianbrit nah. I'm remote out of Albuquerque here, not sure what I'd do if they asked me to relocate since for Jess it would also mean getting a new job.
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