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by tsmith 2081 days ago
> Anecdotally, I have never heard of anyone getting a job at a FAANG with that kind of salary working remotely from day 1.

The cities the parent comment mentioned (Ann Arbor, Boulder, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Boston, Seattle) are all cities where Google has offices. So, the folks they mention weren't working remotely, but rather working locally in remote offices.

Source: Google San Diego employee
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nostrademons 2081 days ago
Many of them actually are working remotely, but have the option to go into the local office if they need anything. Sometimes they also started going into the office a few days a week and then stopped because there's really no point when the team they're working with is remote. (This is before COVID - now everybody is in this situation, and it's likely the whole company will once we come out of COVID. Most of the moves in question were either from my first time at Google [2009-2014] or the period when I wasn't working for them [2014-2020].)

Source: know the people mentioned.

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oscardelben 2081 days ago
I think it's very rare, I've worked at Google for 8 years and I've met maybe 1 person who works from home on a somewhat regular basis.
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lsiebert 2081 days ago
Observer bias arguably. If they are working from home, rather hard to meet them.
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nostrademons 2080 days ago
Also varies a lot by PA. Chrome is very friendly to remote work, because they're an open-source project with a lot of non-Google contributors anyway. Android or Search, not so much. Research, infrastructure, geo, and core - decent. Don't know too much about the other PAs.

A lot of the people I mentioned above actually transferred PAs to make remote work work. If that's a goal of yours, Google's a big enough company that there's probably a role available.

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UncleMeat 2080 days ago
How? You'd still have meetings with them.

The problem is that you need a VP exception for remote work and many VPs don't believe in it at all. So there are entire orgs where the number of remote people is zero.

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RussianCow 2081 days ago
I was making a broader comment in case someone took that to mean that they can get a remote job working for Google or a similar company without previous experience there, which seems very unlikely.
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