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by Moocar 4335 days ago
Why the downvote?
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Who knows, voting is a pretty weird concept on a job thread. I suspect most serious job seekers either read the whole page or Ctrl+F for keywords.
Not me, but sometimes it's an accident that happens when browsing on a mobile device. Those up&down arrows are too close together IMHO.
My guess is someone is just hating on Walmart
Which is especially silly in this case because there is some pretty cool research that comes out of Walmart Labs. Most of what's relevant to me is the applied crypto/searchable encryption stuff.
There's an excellent response to be made regarding the "silliness" of weighing cool research vs the ethics of the body doing the research, but making it explicitly would invoke Godwin's Law.
I didn't downvote, but why "US" in "US remote"?

I'm always interested when I seen some country restrictions for remote jobs. In fact, a vast majority of these jobs are from US companies. So what's so special about US? Is dealing with paperwork for non-US candidates that hard for you?

A few possibilities:

- it's simpler for tax/legal purposes for them to hire people who are US residents and legal to work in the US.

- we're in the UK, and hire non-UK-based remote, but we've had a hard time if the timezone is more than a few hours off of London time. In the US, this pretty much restricts you to the Americas (which include a lot more than the US, of course, but this does make a decent chunk of non-US candidates incompatible for them).

I have a friend whose offer was withdrawn without prior notice. Just a shitty company to work for.