Himalayas
Himalayas is the place to find remote jobs and companies.
New filters to make it easier to find jobs and companies that fit your needs
If you're looking for a remote job, you can now filter results by employee benefits and markets, alongside our existing time zone, country, company, salary, and type of work filters. These filters make it easy to find roles that match your needs and experience.
For example, you can now search for software engineering jobs with a 4-day workweek in the SaaS industry.
As part of this, we also improved the relevance of our job sorting algorithm.
If you're researching remote companies, you can now filter by tech stack and employee benefits. This means you can easily find companies that use the tools and technology you love, with the employee benefits you need.
In addition to these improvements, we've removed the limit on our dropdown options and now lazy load suggestions as you scroll.
Other fixes and improvements
- Switched image hosting to Cloudflare Images
- Added applicantLocationRequirements to JobPosting schema
- Added +X more button to tech stack summaries
- Fixed bug causing work email to show instead of personal email in Himalayas Recruit
- Transitioned Ghost to a headless CMS
- Minor scaling optimizations
- Added modal to crop non-square images
- Minor padding, copy, and color improvements
- Renamed tech stack category "Front Office" to "Marketing and Sales"
- Renamed perk category "4-day work weeks (32h)" to "4-day workweeks"
We've made improvements to Himalayas Recruit
We've pushed out a significant improvement to Himalayas Recruit to improve company profile management and the job posting experience. Everything is now cleaner, faster, and more robust.
If you're a user of Himalayas Recruit, you'll see a progress indicator to show which steps you need to complete to finish your company profile, and you'll also notice jobs can be saved as drafts and previewed before posting.
The final improvement we added is intelligent suggestions for skills, job categories, markets, and perks to make it even easier to manage your profile and post new jobs.
Other fixes and improvements
- Masked application links to prevent scraping
- Improved design of toast notifications
- Added support for Google for Jobs indexing
- Fixed issue causing salary filter to not work consistently with non-dollar currencies
- Made modal transitions more consistent
- Navigation no longer stutters on fade out in Chrome-based browsers
- Improved heading hierarchy on the blog
- Switched to US date format
We've added employee benefits and perks to our remote company profiles. This makes it easy to see whether a company offers health insurance, flexible working hours, paid parental leave, and a number of other benefits to their employees.
We've already got over 300 companies with employee benefits and perks information, and we're working hard to gather the information for the rest.
For example, you might be interested in the employee benefits and perks that Zapier, Percona, VEED.IO, Airteam, Remote, or Webflow offer.
If you're a remote employer and want to attract more candidates, create a free remote company profile on Himalayas today and give job seekers insight into what it's like to work at your company and what they'll get beyond a paycheck.
New articles
We've published a lot of articles since our last update:
- How to Answer "Tell Me About Yourself" (Sample Answers)
- How to Answer "What Makes You Unique?" (7 Sample Answers)
- How to Answer "What Are Your Career Goals?" (Sample Answers)
- How to Answer "Describe Your Work Ethic" (Sample Answers Included)
Other fixes and improvements
- Added support for embedding YouTube and Vimeo videos in job descriptions and company profiles
- Dropdown menus now appear centered underneath their corresponding menu items
- Added gray background to advice homepage header
- Fixed issue causing OG images to not load properly on LinkedIn
- Improved the relevance of featured blog posts
- Modified sorting algorithm of our top companies list to include only active jobs
- Updated padding on home page
- Fixed issue causing incorrect heights on h1s, h2s, and h3s
- Added a hover state to badges
- Reduced lag on transition animations
- Significantly improved rendering speed of HTML loaded via AJAX
- Fixed issue causing perks icon to not update when editing a perk
- Fixed styling bug of breadcrumbs on mobile devices
- Limited perk descriptions to 200 characters
- Noindexed query pages
- Updated Ruby to v3
We've redesigned our blog to be more helpful to our readers. The goal is to make it the ultimate remote work resource by providing actionable advice to remote job seekers, employees, managers, and employersacross a range of topics.
The best publications prioritize quality and depth over volume and breath, and we think readers deserve better than a reverse-chronological feed of posts.
The new design gives us more control over how we present and organize articles, creates a more consistent user experience, and lays the groundwork for future improvements.
You can now filter content by topic and intended audience in the left-hand sidebar, and next time you're reading an article, you'll notice a table of contents on the left-hand side that lets you jump to the parts of the post that matter most to you.
Read our advice for remote workers and employers here.
If you have any feedback about our new publication, please let us know.
New remote work articles
We've published a lot of articles since our last update:
- Remote-first Vs. Remote-friendly: Definitions, Benefits, and Differences
- Working Across Time Zones: Pros, Cons, and Best Practices
- Remote One-on-Ones: Importance, Best Practices, and Template
- November 2021 Monthly Update
- How to Design Remotely: Tips, Tools, and How to Get a Remote Design Job
- How to Create a Remote Work Policy (Free Template)
- How to Answer "Where Do You See Yourself In 5 Years"
Other fixes and improvements:
- Fixed issue causing multiple tabs to open on Safari when Cmd+T was pressed
- Fixed bug where Read more buttons were not working on some browsers
- Search filters now save after you view a job and press back
- Switched linter to Trunk to simplify checking, testing, and merging of code
Improvements and bug fixes for job filters
We invested some time this week improving the filters for jobs. This included fixing a bug where the salary slider would not work on mobile, updating the copy from clear to select all on the *Job Type *filter, and improving the format of numbers on the filter slide over on mobile.
New remote work articles
We've published a number of articles in the last week:
- How to Write Your Remote Job Resume (Templates + Samples Included)
- 45 Essential Remote Work Best Practices
- Head of Remote: What Is It, Responsibilities, and How to Hire or Become One
- The Ultimate Guide to Managing Remote Teams (20 Tips)
- How to Answer "Why Do You Want To Work Remotely?" (Sample Answers Included)
Other fixes and improvements:
- Fixed bug causing blog post to not show up on the homepage
- Improved URL validation for LinkedIn URLs
- Added Head of Remote to job categories
- Fixed issue causing images to be deleted when clicked on in company profile form
- Removed incomplete companies from search suggestions
- Polished the UI of the perks modal for employers
- Company link on company profile form now opens in new tab.
- Added new perks: Flexible working hours, disability insurance, fertility benefits, company retreat, and get paid in crypto.
Autosave and faster forms
We spent the week continuing to improve the editing experience for company profiles. From now on your company profile will be automatically saved in the background while you edit it.
This means if you accidentally close the tab you won't lose progress. You'll also notice that forms submit without refreshing the page, which should make things feel faster.
Create your free remote company profile
New remote work articles
We've published a number of articles in the last week:
- How and Why to Write a Remote Work Cover Letter (With Tips, Template, and Example)
- 92 Remote Employee Perks & Benefits Ideas for 2022
- How to Work From Home: Tips and Companies Hiring Remotely
- 13 Best Employee Handbook Examples for Remote Companies
Other fixes and improvements
- Fixed issue with overflowing lines in nav dropdown
- Updated redirect for old stack URL
- Removed incomplete companies from search autocomplete
- Changed minimum job description to 100 words
- Added placeholder text to rich text boxes
We spent the week improving the experience of creating and editing company profiles. This included improving the tab navigation of the edit company form, enhancing frontend and backend validation for perks, and a few minor style improvements.
We'll be introducing autosave to company profiles soon, which means if you accidentally close the tab when you're creating or editing your company profile you won't lose progress.
Create your free remote company profile here
New remote work articles
We've published a number of articles in the last week:
- 16 Remote Job Interview Questions (Sample Answers Included)
- 120 Fully Remote Companies Hiring in 2021
- Compressed workweek: Definition, Types, Pros, Cons, and Tips
Other fixes and improvements
- Fixed caching bug causing new companies to not be found in dropdowns
- Fixed issue causing JavaScript to not work on the changelog
- Enhanced automated process for refreshing jobs and removing expired jobs
- Fixed issue causing incorrect canonical link to be chosen on company profile and tech stack pages
Added support for benefits and perks for employers
Employers can now add benefits and perks to their company profiles to help attract remote talent. Adding benefits and perks is another way for companies to tell their story and shine a spotlight on their culture.
If you're a remote employer, let your benefits and perks do the talking for you. A truly ideal candidate will be just as interested in your company's values, benefits, and perks as they are in the job description and tech stack. Take the time to outline what it's like to work at your company and what they'll get beyond a paycheck.
Create your free remote company profile today and get candidates excited to work with you before you've even met.
New remote work articles
We've published a number of articles in the last week:
- How to Answer "Why Are You Interested in This Position?" (Sample Answers Included)
- Top 10 Remote Work and Work From Home Books in 2021
- October 2021 Monthly Update (an inside look into the progress we made in October)
- Four-day Work Week: Impact, Origin, Pros, Cons, and More
Other fixes and improvements
- Added support for bumping jobs to top of search
- Fixed issue causing employers to be unable to create a new company
- Updated Elasticsearch to OpenSearch
- Updated OG images for the changelog and homepage
- Removed unverified hiring managers from job form
- Updated autocomplete to work again on JavaScript elements
- Fixed issue causing autocomplete to filter out companies with the same name
- Added comma as a delimiter to numbers on the homepage
- Changed background color of transparent images to white
- Fixed incorrect chevron color in nav dropdown
Speed improvements and more weighting to newer jobs
We've made significant progress this week optimizing the speed of the platform. Loading the homepage, searching for remote jobs, viewing individual jobs, and using our company profiles and tech stacks should be significantly faster. The speed improvements are really noticeable if you land on one of our skill- or job category-based pages, like pages on remote design jobs, remote developer jobs, or remote sales jobs.
A bunch of work went into this including improving our caching, lazy loading images, optimizing our search algorithm and image sizes, minimizing JavaScript requests, purging unnecessary CSS, and moving some tasks from synchronous to asynchronous.
We've also improved our search algorithm to place more weight on recently posted jobs, making it easier for you to be one of the first applicants.
If you have any feedback, please let us know.
New remote work articles
We've published a number of articles in the last week:
- How to Engage Remote Employees: 15 Strategies to Keep Employees Engaged
- Ultimate List of Remote Work Statistics 2021
- Asynchronous Communication: Definition, Examples & Benefits
- 73 Companies With 4 Day Work Weeks
- Remote Collaboration: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tools
Other fixes and improvements
- Fixed flicker on chevron on nav hover
- Increased the clickable area in type to search results
- Removed sticky sidebar on search pages
- Fixed issue causing some employment types to be unselected when you pressed back in your browser
- Fixed UI bug causing filter buttons to overflow outside the container
Speed is a feature
Based on your feedback on the release of Himalayas 2.0, we’re planning to focus primarily on performance improvements and speed over the next few weeks. This work will make Himalayas even nicer to use and make it faster to find jobs that are relevant to you.
Speed is a feature, one that we consider core to Himalayas and will continue to treat it as a top priority as we scale.
The first investment we have made into this is lazy loading images on our home page and significantly improving the time it takes to build and deploy the site. Improving our build time will significantly reduce the time it takes to upload and test new features, so it’s an important first step.
Updated social image style
In case you’re not aware when you post a job on Himalayas, we automatically share it on our LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook pages, as well as in our community of remote workers. We wanted to make sharing any jobs or company profiles on social media as high-impact as possible so we’ve invested in automatically creating unique and beautiful images to go with each post. To see what they look like, check out our social media accounts or share a job with a friend or colleague!
New remote work articles
We've published a number of articles in the last week:
- How to Answer "Why Do You Want to Work Here" (Sample Answers Included)
- 38 Remote Work Visas for Digital Nomads
- 18 Essential Remote Work Skills for Remote Workers
- 10 Remote Work Myths to Leave Behind
- How to Hire Remote Employees
- Remote Onboarding: How to Onboard Remote Employees
- Remote Work Glossary
Other fixes and improvements
- Updated Rails to the latest version
- Fixed issue where URLs with trailing slashes weren’t redirected properly
- Updated text copy in navigation dropdown
- Updated headings on the company page
- Increased size of text on pages
- Fixed issue causing dropdowns to lose focus on initial load
- Changed checkbox text weight to medium
- Fixed caching issue where incorrect breadcrumb was shown on search pages
- Reduced maximum container size from 1440px to 1280px
- Improved clarity of small images
- Fixed issue where canonical on page 1 was different to the base page
- Improved transitions with modals
- Added share link to company pages
- Fixed issue where 404/500 pages were showing incorrect featured items
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