Two thoughts. First, most companies will look for a remote person only after exhausting their local labor pool. If someone remote has to devote their initial m

Two thoughts. First, most companies will look for a remote person only after exhausting their local labor pool. If someone remote has to devote their initial months to learning with no advantage over someone local learning the same content, why not go with the added benefit of hiring someone local. Second, many companies have a fallback person in place who can almost meet the need - maybe they have x amount of years in a language, right attitude, etc. This process is only to see if you are better than their fallback option. The distressing answer sounds to be rarely.