Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco

Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by nostrademons on Thursday October 01, 2020 @08:11PM (#24657514)

Many of them actually are working remotely, but have the option to go into the local office if they need anything. Sometimes they also started going into the office a few days a week and then stopped because there's really no point when the team they're working with is remote. (This is before COVID - now everybody is in this situation, and it's likely the whole company will once we come out of COVID. Most of the moves in question were either from my first time at Google [2009-2014] or the period when I wasn't working for them [2014-2020].)

Source: know the people mentioned.

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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by oscardelben on Friday October 02, 2020 @04:02AM (#24660234)

I think it's very rare, I've worked at Google for 8 years and I've met maybe 1 person who works from home on a somewhat regular basis.

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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by lsiebert on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:58AM (#24661287)

Observer bias arguably. If they are working from home, rather hard to meet them.

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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by nostrademons on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:50AM (#24663853)

Also varies a lot by PA. Chrome is very friendly to remote work, because they're an open-source project with a lot of non-Google contributors anyway. Android or Search, not so much. Research, infrastructure, geo, and core - decent. Don't know too much about the other PAs.

A lot of the people I mentioned above actually transferred PAs to make remote work work. If that's a goal of yours, Google's a big enough company that there's probably a role available.

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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by UncleMeat on Saturday October 03, 2020 @09:25AM (#24671928)

How? You'd still have meetings with them.

The problem is that you need a VP exception for remote work and many VPs don't believe in it at all. So there are entire orgs where the number of remote people is zero.

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