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Xoogler in a throwaway account. If you look at the linked "my move away from California" post, you'll see that he moved to the Portland, Oregon area during the
by thrwawayxoogler 5y ago
Xoogler in a throwaway account.
If you look at the linked "my move away from California" post, you'll see that he moved to the Portland, Oregon area during the pandemic.
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He says that he was working out of the Portland office, but the majority of open engineering roles there (not many in total) are very specialized.
My guess is that post-pandemic, now that Google offices will be re-opening, they don't want people spread all over the place, and he wasn't willing to move back to California. While his managers were most likely supportive of him working fully remote, Google isn't very flexible when it comes to fully remote work.
- bruckie 5y agoI work at Google's Portland office (well, at least when there's not a pandemic). We're a pretty normal engineering office—although smaller than many, so there are fewer team choices than in larger offices. Google has become remarkably flexible over the past few months when it comes to fully remote work (see press from May, e.g. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/tech/google-office-remote-work-pandemic/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/tech/google-office-remote-wor...). Not quite as flexible as some companies, but it's night-and-day compared to a couple of years ago. The "now that Google offices will be re-opening, they don't want people spread all over the place" conjecture doesn't match what I'm seeing internally; in fact, quite the opposite: there's a much higher acceptance of remote work / "spreading all over the place" than in the past.