Speaking of such funny business: unfortunately I have seen *(array + i) quite a few times.

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

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.)

So it’s not as rosy as it seems.

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.

Very few of the eng orgs have policies against remote work. Even TI supports it, despite whinging over Urs' statements. I'm also not aware of any manager who'd reject an internal xfer who had a record of good performance for remote work.

Would I like to see more to support remote work? Yes. It feels ridiculous to me that the folks in Sales don't have the same options. But from the actual data collected most people in a position to work remotely have access to it.

There’s a difference between: unrelated to your job, and unrelated to the business as a whole.

In some locations, employers can’t claim copyright on works unrelated to your current role.

In many locations they can. I paid my own lawyers to review a Google NYC job offer and they said, yes, Google can enforce this clause.

(Obviously this is not legal advice, talk to your own layers, etc.)

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).

So it does seem very high, but not impossible?

I believe Salesforce offered interns in SF something like $8600+/mo and an option of company-provided housing or an $8k stipend, if they took the latter then their effective pay would be a bit over $11k/mo. So yeah, it doesn't sound unreasonable. Internships only lasted 3 months, so it's not a big burden on the company, plus it gives the intern a salary proxy for what they can expect as minimum if they're invited back for full time the next summer after graduation.

I moved to the bay area at the same time as taking a senior engineering role for an Eastern European startup on $100k - feel like I missed a trick lol :P

To be fair I don't care about salaries as much as half of HN appear to, I'm quite comfortable on that with a wife on a postdocs wage too.

And they're supposed to only store the data temporarily until it gets put on the passport chip (i.e. not go into the database).

Of course there's no way to verify that, but I generally have a bit more trust in German authoroties.

(you can also travel widely with just an ID card which doesn't get the biometrics, although that does limit you to Europe.)

It's hard to be silent towards an online checkbox.

Canada is massively better - many routings don't require going through security, leaving only a cursory immigration check (at special transit desks).

Er, really? Usually it's the other way around. i.e. when flying from country A to country C via country B, in country B's airport you just go through a cursory security check but no immigration or customs formalities.

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.

Disclaimer: this might not be the case at all airports, but certainly YVR and YYZ have implemented this.