It depends on your qualifications and area. Its pretty competitive at the low to mid end even for experienced folks with so many layoffs having happened over the past 3 years. If you're in ML, have a top degree/good experience its pretty open. Standards are high.

Not much of a diff between remote first companies, thats more of a culture thing. Both the best and worst companies are all doing RTO, and the middle there's a bunch who are doing fine remote and others who are doing fine less remote.