No not really. I know people who were at multiples of FAANG who struggle to find jobs for months now (SWEs & SREs). Certainly noone's going to snub an offer for lack of remote.
Also, there is (a non-unsurmountable) hurdle of coming from FAANG in that hiring managers suspect that someone coming from a FAANG to a much less cushy position simply wants to sit out a downturn or a burndown before jumping back.
> Certainly noone's going to snub an offer for lack of remote.
I wouldn't take a non-remote job until it's that or homelessnes. I need to optimize for the long term viability of my career, and that means avoiding long-covid, which in turn means avoiding working in an office.
Certainly for most people there’s a point where there’s no choice left and if your only option is to work on-site then that’s what you’ll have to do. My point was simply that there are a lot of people, myself included, who would snub an on-sight offer as long as there are other options.
I see a lot of people assuming that remote work is merely a preference, but for a lot of people it’s a lot more than that. Avoiding contracting Covid in the office is a difference between life and death for some people- and the difference between a productive long term career or a struggle to eek out a living in the face of long term disabilities due to long covid for others.
Well, at this point, for a lot of roles, the choice between never going into an office, or attending a meeting, or taking a business trip does involve pretty severe career tradeoffs. I'm on a distributed team and travel is pretty locked down because of budgets but I still don't really have the flexibility to say I'm not leaving my house (though I want to get out in general).
It’s a trade-off for sure. There are companies where you can be successful without in-person events, but that’s not going to be every company or remote team. I’m comfortable with the trade-off. I’m an extrovert, and I miss meeting people I work with regularly (even though I’ve always disliked travel). Unfortunately, putting my feelings aside, a sober analysis of the state of Covid right now has me convinced that it’s still really really worth avoiding as much as possible.
What was their previous comp and what companies are they applying for? If you're looking for half a mil comp at top tech companies, yeah it's going to slim pickings.
