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I've been working remotely for about five years, now, and I love it. I've always been curious about working at Twitter and Google, and I was vaguely hoping that they'd start looking at full-time remote hires across their engineering orgs. I value remote work more than I do the possibility of working at Twitter or Google, so it is a little wistfully that I realize I might never follow up on that curiosity.

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Twitter allows for full time remote. They were one of the first companies to announce it with COVID [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/01/twitter...

I was trying to make sense of these lines from the article. I probably misunderstood.

> Twitter has said that it expects a majority of its staff to spend some time working remotely and some time in the office. That's despite its boss Jack Dorsey initially saying that employees could work from home "forever".

> And Google rejigged its timetable for bringing people back to the workplace. As of 1 September, employees wishing to work from home for more than 14 days a year would have to apply to do so.

Gotcha, yeah I know for sure twitter is allowing 100% remote. People will have the option to go to an office if they want at Twitter but there's no requirement or need to apply like what you're saying google is doing.

Though, google has way more employees than twitter I believe (5,000+ vs 130,000+)

I know for a fact that at least some teams at Google are hiring for full-time remote right now.

I think you're right, but I don't think this organizational discomfort with remote work will be true of the next batch of hip companies to work at. So you may yet get your chance. :)

Many of the large tech co's are now allowing to apply for permanent remote positions: https://www.levels.fyi/remote/

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