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).
To make it worse, it’s in a parser for external data in binary format, where you really shouldn’t be playing funny tricks.