Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space

Re:Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting ... by bradlys on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:02PM (#23934555)

> I pay $2150 a month for a 5 bedroom 3100 square foot 4 year old house in the burbs of a major metropolitan area and work for $BigTech remotely. I wouldn’t trade the arbitrage opportunity for anything.

Congrats, you don't live in silicon valley. Woohoo. Your life is not everyone's nor is it representative of what everyone can get.

My employer will only keep people who will show up at the office. If I found employers regularly paying $400k+ for remote - I'd consider it... But I don't see them often.

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Re:Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting ... by scarface74 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:42PM (#23934806)

Well, most people aren’t making $400K at $BigTech either according to levels.fyi

I had two choices when I could see myself topping out locally as a bog standard enterprise dev - either I could go the r/cscareerquestions route and “grind leetCode” so I could reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard, and move to high cost of living area or I could focus on gaining experience so I could be an overpriced “digital transformation consultant” somewhere where most of the jobs are remote with travel.

Right when I was about to pull the trigger and start applying for local companies, Covid hit, the local market dried up and I got an email from an Amazon recruiter.

I thought I might as well try. I can answer the “tell me about a time when...” questions with the best of them and I had the relevant experience.

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