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Guessing not a full time engineer or some kind of niche talent? Never heard of anyone going remote or even being a possibility. Its written into the culture and

Guessing not a full time engineer or some kind of niche talent? Never heard of anyone going remote or even being a possibility. Its written into the culture and all job postings.

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dsacco 9y ago
Most of the large tech companies allow but don’t advertise remote work flexibility for senior staff. I know someone who works remotely at Apple on a team on the other side of the country.
- drewg123 9y ago
  This. A lot of it depends on your VP and management chain. The VP above me at Google was very traditional and believed strongly in "butts in seats", and ironically complained he'd exhausted they bay area talent pool. There was a chance I could have moved to a different team at Google under a more remote-friendly VP, but its future and funding was much less certain, so I left instead.
- neuland 9y ago
  I can confirm that the option is there. I'm at a big 4 tech company and recently transitioned to remote. If it is a deal-breaker and you are senior or otherwise considered a key team member they can't let leave, going remote can sometimes work out.
nerfhammer 9y ago
Yeah but once you've spent some time on a team there and are trusted and respected, all that stuff becomes pretty negotiable.
- drewg123 9y ago
  That's what I'd hoped for at Google, and my manager would have been fine with me being remote. However, my VP did not allow remote work. We even lost out on having a fairly famous guy work for our team, because he was unable to transfer a deal he had with his current team where he could work 3 days at home (in Pleasanton, so the commute to Mountain View was terrible).
  - chirau 9y ago
    Out of curiosity, what do you do at Netflix? Jealous
    - drewg123 9y ago
      FreeBSD kernel performance tuning for the OpenConnect CDN hosts. See https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an-open-connect-appliance-cdb51dda3b99 https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an...
  - komali2 9y ago
    I'll never understand the anti-remote-work stubbornness, especially in obvious cases like that. The VP really expects talent to commute from Pleasanton, daily, when they could just work for any other of the Bay Area tech firms remotely, at an equal salary and similar benefits?
loeg 9y ago
Netflix has a lot of remote employees. They also pay well above market rates. It's a good gig if you can get it.
- zerr 9y ago
  Also from overseas, e.g. from Europe?

Guessing not a full time engineer or some kind of niche talent? Never heard of anyone going remote or even being a possibility. Its written into the culture and all job postings.

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dsacco 9y ago

Most of the large tech companies allow but don’t advertise remote work flexibility for senior staff. I know someone who works remotely at Apple on a team on the other side of the country.

drewg123 9y ago
This. A lot of it depends on your VP and management chain. The VP above me at Google was very traditional and believed strongly in "butts in seats", and ironically complained he'd exhausted they bay area talent pool. There was a chance I could have moved to a different team at Google under a more remote-friendly VP, but its future and funding was much less certain, so I left instead.
neuland 9y ago
I can confirm that the option is there. I'm at a big 4 tech company and recently transitioned to remote. If it is a deal-breaker and you are senior or otherwise considered a key team member they can't let leave, going remote can sometimes work out.

nerfhammer 9y ago

Yeah but once you've spent some time on a team there and are trusted and respected, all that stuff becomes pretty negotiable.

drewg123 9y ago
That's what I'd hoped for at Google, and my manager would have been fine with me being remote. However, my VP did not allow remote work. We even lost out on having a fairly famous guy work for our team, because he was unable to transfer a deal he had with his current team where he could work 3 days at home (in Pleasanton, so the commute to Mountain View was terrible).
- chirau 9y ago
  Out of curiosity, what do you do at Netflix? Jealous
  - drewg123 9y ago
    FreeBSD kernel performance tuning for the OpenConnect CDN hosts. See https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an-open-connect-appliance-cdb51dda3b99 https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an...
- komali2 9y ago
  I'll never understand the anti-remote-work stubbornness, especially in obvious cases like that. The VP really expects talent to commute from Pleasanton, daily, when they could just work for any other of the Bay Area tech firms remotely, at an equal salary and similar benefits?

loeg 9y ago

Netflix has a lot of remote employees. They also pay well above market rates. It's a good gig if you can get it.

zerr 9y ago
Also from overseas, e.g. from Europe?