[vunderba]

This might not be applicable to your situation since it sounds like more of a spam issue, but several of my colleagues who help with the hiring at their companies now require an "on-site" interview because of rampant cheating and misrepresentation by potential applicants.

The amusing thing is that the positions are still 100% remote - they just conduct the interviews at shared workspaces.

[firefax]

I've been flown out to SF for "remote" role interviews -- I thought it was common that even if the role is remote, you interview on site and might fly out for a brief training, receive your equipment, fill out HR paperwork etc is a reasonable ask assuming costs are covered.

[JustExAWS]

The company I work for now has 700 people and has no “site”. When I was hired, they gave me a choice of having my laptop shipped directly from Apple or picking up from an Apple Store and I installed the MDM software after I picked it up.

Of course the laptop is registered in the company’s name.

I would be hesitant to work remotely for any company that wasn’t “remote only”.

[firefax]

>I installed the MDM software after I picked it up.

I'd be more weirded out by MDM than a company that had a small HQ office for HR and legal.

I agree that once remote, it should be remote -- absent being needed to do a deposition none of this "all hands" crap -- but having that physical office is good so if things go off the rails ala the 1995 action thriller "The Net" you have someplace to show up at and ask some pointed questions ;-)

[JustExAWS]

It wasn’t my computer. It was the company’s computer. All big companies have MDM software of some sort. Funny enough, the software is I believe part of a suite by Rippling - a YC company.