Some people aren’t even applying because their orgs have made it clear that remote won’t be approved, and some people are being denied for spurious reasons. (Best one I’ve seen is: personal reasons not strong enough for remote.)
Yes, anyone can apply. But no, not all orgs will accept a remote application.
And if your org says no, there aren’t that many internal remote options yet. And some orgs will say no to remote transferees for the first N months or a year.
So it’s better than before, but some orgs are still stuck in no-remote, and for many a departure is the way to go remote.
Yup - or at least that’s what Google tells their employees. Want to publish something - you’d better get permission, and stick the Google name on it. And based on my limited understanding of the US contracts, is also true in practice.
There are some exceptions depending on local laws and contracts though, so it’s only mostly and not always true.
14.5k is almost the monthly base pay for a senior software engineer at a FANG in Bay Area/NY/Seattle/ZRH (not counting bonus and stock though - which make a significant difference).
Yes, indeed. US/Europe to -> rest of world (except US) involves no security when transiting Canada.
Domestic connections do require security, connections to US generally require preclearance security. Connections from most other countries also go through security.
The odd thing is that they don't separate arrivals: so you'll mingle with worldwide arrivals, go through transfer immigration with everyone else, and finally you show your boarding pass and get routed either to the departure gates, or to security, based on your boarding pass.
Nope. It's for customs, not immigration. You're already in the country, they just need to figure out whether they need to search your bags for contraband.
Significant note: this appears to be a customs screening, not immigration screening.
Which makes perfect sense since it's extremely hard for customs agents to actually catch smugglers. (Compared to immigration screening which is largely based on hard criteria which human agents evaluate with much less leeway.)
The bigger question is whether it's effective - but anything is likely to be more effective than customs agents selecting people to search based on gut feeling.
I'm pretty sure both London and Switzerland have cultures (OK, UK culture is mostly just drinking but still...).
Large software hubs generally need to pull in people from around the world, not just USSR. And that's the crux of the problem. London, Berlin, Paris, Zurich are all major international cities - it's easier for people from all around the world to settle down there than in places like Warsaw or Perugia.
Also, those places are way more international than most places in Europe, which makes relocation more attractive. Good luck attracting non-Italians to Italy, or non-Polish to Poland.
To make it worse, it’s in a parser for external data in binary format, where you really shouldn’t be playing funny tricks.