[bowlich]

I know several employers who hire remote, and it isn't a Bay Area thing -- they won't employ anyone in the state of the CA, for the same reasons they won't employ international employees -- they see CA legislation as too onerous to be bothered with dealing with when they can hire devs out of states with more lax employment laws.

[jonathanyc]

Given that CA is an at-will employment state, “states with more lax employment laws” really sounds like a euphemism for “states which allow non-competes”—in CA non-competes are unenforceable. Do you happen to have any more specifics? I’d be really interested to know.