Which big tech companies are still (or permanently) remote?
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.
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.)
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.”
Depends on your definition of "big tech," but Zapier is remote-only, and we hire globally.
Microsoft supports it as long as your manager approves it :)
Netflix is still remote friendly in general.
Akamai is heavily remote now and plans to keep it that way.
Github and Gitlab, but both has layoffs recently.
Wasn't Twitter? Did that end?
True remote-only companies:
Gitlab & Shopify
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())
Meta is quite remote friendly