Pretty crazy, because AWS has had fully-remote employees for a decade plus. I worked closely with a team who had two remote employees, one in NYC and one in CA,

Pretty crazy, because AWS has had fully-remote employees for a decade plus. I worked closely with a team who had two remote employees, one in NYC and one in CA, despite the rest of the team being in-office in Seattle. And you know what? They got along fine. The guy in NYC got promoted to L6 while I was there, so I can only assume they were happy with his work.