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by smt88 1069 days ago
You broadly have two options:

A) Find a company that is 100% remote (fairly common), does no in-person meetings (rare), is a great place to work (extremely rare), pays the salary you want, and is hiring people like you. It's likely that most of the time, there are zero companies that fit these criteria.

B) Find a company that is 100% remote and does only a few in-person meetings, then work on your aversion to socializing in therapy. Anxiety and fear are very treatable, and life is full of things that you can be very afraid of if you successfully avoid them. You may never become more extroverted, but that doesn't mean you need to be stuck in the prison of being afraid to meet your coworkers once a quarter.

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Thanks for your response. However regrading your point B), I imagine you didn't fully read the description of this post. I was hoping to keep this objective and not about discussing things like therapy and people's personalities. I don't want this thread to be about those things. Strictly about any companies that happen to fit this criteria -- even if the answer is "no", then a simple "no" is sufficient.

If you provides you any comfort (if that's the right word to use here), my wording in my post was perhaps not quite right. I simply don't want to spend a week traveling, living in a hotel, doing mandatory group activity -- I'd rather spend that time with people in my life and living my life outside work hours