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Ask HN: Which big tech companies are still (or permanently) remote?

39 points by satvikpendem ↗ HN
After working remotely for so long, I have no desire to go to the office now, so I'm wondering which big tech, FAANG, pre-IPO startups etc are still going to be remote for the foreseeable future.

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tfehring
Airbnb - almost all roles are remote-first and will continue to be remote-first indefinitely. The only caveats I can think of are (1) you have to keep your primary residence in the country the role is based in, and (2) many US employees will be expected to travel to San Francisco for ~2 weeks each year. https://careers.airbnb.com/

(I'm an Airbnb employee.)

satvikpendem
How is it like working there?

Also looks like they have only staff positions available, I'm not yet at that stage haha

ushercakes
How are you feeling morale-wise with the company? I've been seeing a lot of negative sentiment around Airbnb as of late, a total transformation compared to what I've seen in years prior.

Before - airbnb is awesome, it's cheaper than hotels and you get a much nicer place.

Today - airbnb is so expensive. Similar price on the surface, but after random hidden feeds the price comes out way more expensive. In addition, there is the whole side of logistics (getting the key), having to take the trash out, do laundry/dishes, etc.

In my experience, the sentiment is kind of justified. Airbnb used to be the cheaper/better option, but it's kind of transformed into the more expensive option for arguably less convenience. Which sucks to say - I loved the original iteration of the service.

maxdoop
I think the sentiment is mostly online (here and Reddit). In “real life”, Airbnb just beat earnings, and I personally know so many people that only use AirBnbs to stay .
Drybones
Akamai is heavily remote now and plans to keep it that way.
yucky
Please tell me they have no plans to destroy Linode now that they own it..
roflyear
Linode didnt manage to, so I think it must be indestructible
roland35
Meta is quite remote friendly
1letterunixname
It used to be. Home office stipend was cut.

It's now hostile to seated and hybrid workers with shared everything desks (except MPK) and the looming threat of more layoffs, more Help Desk closures, microkitchen cutbacks, and shrinking meal service.

Except for lifers who just want to coast, some are eager to be laid-off as they're already looking around.

PS: Amazon corporate's idea of perks are vending machines.

roland35
The home office stipend was cut, but there is still a home internet credit of $900/year.

Yeah sure there are plenty of issues but none of those are related to remote. It is much easier to find a remote role at Meta vs other big tech companies. In fact I just checked and a plurality of my org is remote! Obviously a big majority is in _some_ office, but people are spread out over many locations around the US/world.

sgarland
Depends on your definition of "big tech," but Zapier is remote-only, and we hire globally.
satvikpendem
Looks like they have a full stack role, nice. How is it like working at Zapier?
bobolino123
Idk if they hire. My resume is quite ok but got rejected last Monday by Zapier.
cglong
Microsoft supports it as long as your manager approves it :)
gtaylor
Netflix is still remote friendly in general.
klavinski
Levels.fyi has a list of remote companies: https://www.levels.fyi/remote/

You can run the following script in your browser console to show only the fully remote listings.

  document.querySelectorAll("tr").forEach(_=>!_.textContent.includes("Fully Remote")&&_.remove())
paulcole
Nobody is “permanently remote” — and you should take anyone who says they are with a huge grain of salt. They’re remote until there’s a compelling reason (good or bad, reasonable or unreasonable) for them to not be remote. An exception would be companies that were started as remote-only pre-pandemic (Zapier comes to mind).

I do a lot of interviewing and always say, “We’re remote until we have a problem that would be best solved by not being remote. However, it’s hard to imagine a problem like that. It’s much more likely that a single person can’t handle working remotely effectively. But I don’t talk in absolutes and would never say never, always, or forever when it comes to something this important.”

harshalizee
There is also being an actual designated remote employee. If someone is located two time zones away from you/offices, you wouldn't call them in to solve a problem.
paulcole
Yeah you just fire them when you decide to stop being remote.
Jcowell
My position is remote since the company I work for spans over almost every time zone. My team on different coast. And this is a company that became remote permanently during the pandemic. Nothing would be gained by removing my remote status since there would be no one to meet in my local office anyway.
paulcole
> Nothing would be gained by removing my remote status

Right. The lack of clear benefit has never stopped a company from making a decision before.

superdeeda
Github and Gitlab, but both has layoffs recently.
thiago_fm
True remote-only companies:

Gitlab & Shopify