Given the time zone difficulties and inefficiencies it brings, I wouldn't consider hiring anyone outside of the time zones that span the Americas. Totally okay

Given the time zone difficulties and inefficiencies it brings, I wouldn't consider hiring anyone outside of the time zones that span the Americas. Totally okay hiring someone in Brazil or Peru or whatever, but not France or Eastern Europe especially. Which sucks for me because I recently tried to hire some amazing ML engineers in Paris laid off because of covid and couldn't get them to budge on moving to my companies time zone.