From firsthand experience, I would strongly suggest not working remotely as a new grad. I had a lot of experience before and during college, and then just happe

From firsthand experience, I would strongly suggest not working remotely as a new grad. I had a lot of experience before and during college, and then just happened to fall into a remote job with a company that is completely remote when I graduated this past spring. I was intrigued by the idea of having no commute and working from home/wherever, but I'm finding that I don't absorb as much information being remote as I have in my previous jobs. Work-related communication is great because my company works hard at that, but it's all the other stuff that I don't get when I'm not sitting near other developers - stuff like best practices, new technologies worth trying, active brainstorming, and development tools. Earlier this week my coworker mentioned a browser add-on he'd been using for 6 months that is incredibly useful to our job and I had never heard of it; I think if we were working in the same location then that tool would have been mentioned a lot sooner and everyone on the team would have been using it 6 months ago. The ultimate goal as a fresh grad is to learn and absorb as much information as possible, as quickly as possible, and I think that working remotely hinders that. Also as others have suggested, it's important to find a mentor(s) when you're a new grad, and that's harder to do as a remote worker.