> their guess of a time zone would have been stymied by someone who liked to sleep early/late or had an unusual work schedule, but there was no mention of that

> their guess of a time zone would have been stymied by someone who liked to sleep early/late or had an unusual work schedule, but there was no mention of that or their reasoning. As you said - this only makes sense because it's a Microsoft ad and they could have arguably known the answer to start with anyway. Given that this is focused on someone who's at least interested in software development, they made some pretty specific assumptions. There's no way anyone (unless they somehow literally think there is nothing outside America) would just discount the concept of it being someone in another country, and/or with non-'regular' work hours. But this is Microsoft afterall. The imagination of a brick. I suspect if you asked about remote work, they'd think you want to work on remote desktop.