Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion
by mac01021 on Thursday November 08, 2018 @07:27AM
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Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough, but I've never seen an opening for a remote SWE job for any of FAANG.
If they did, they could pay 75% of what I'm told they do and still be far and away the most appealing employer for talented engineers in most places.
Re:Google Plans Large New York City Expansion
by throwawaymath on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:14AM
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I recently received an offer from Apple for a remote software engineering role. Amazon will also hire remote employees for certain teams in AWS. And I’m aware of both Facebook and Google hiring remote employees (or allowing employees to become fully remote) if they’re excellent and the alternative is losing them.
It’s not an explicit policy and they don’t actively encourage it. But they’ll make it work for the right person - I agree though, don’t go into it thinking you’ll be remote. If you want to work remotely for very high compensation (close to FAANG but not exactly competitive), comsider working at a second tier public tech company like Salesforce or a strong unicorn like Stripe (both of which explicitly support it).
It's that a high-level remote employee at a physical-first company is at a major political disadvantage compared to their onsite peers.