Ask HN: Which FANGs are hiring remote internationally?

[jokethrowaway]

We're moving from the UK to another European country where no FANGs have an office.

My wife almost passed an interview at one of the FANG and she's thinking of doing the 2 months algorithms prep work and try again. At the same time, we've both been working from home since before the pandemic and we're not happy to compromise on that, for no amount of money.

Now that COVID changed the playing field, we're seeing some FANGs open to remote work but they all seem to imply you're still an employee of the FANG, which means you're tied to remote in a country where the company has an office - do you know of any FANG which is happy to hire across international border and work with employees running their own company?

[gamechangr]

The best way to work remotely for a FANG is to work at the headquarters for 1-3 years and then transfer to remote.

That may not help your current situation, but They are looking for the best talent anywhere in the world. They just would like remote workers to have experience working onsite with a team on a large project, preferably their own framework.

Otherwise - you should think hard on what your benefit is that a major employer would choose someone who needs training to get up to speed. For example, if you were really good at complexed systems, but didn't have specific experience - that could be very interesting to a FANG.

Hope that helps

[junipertea]

Why not consider companies that are not FANG? FANG is just 4, you can check with each. I believe you will have to be tied to some existing local office for HR reasons. Of course, there are always exceptions people whisper about, but I suppose you need to be exceptional for a manager to push for that. It is definitely not the norm.

[jokethrowaway]

I think it's more than 4, there are definitely more companies with similar compensation (eg. I would consider Microsoft part of FANGs).

Thanks a lot for the info about this being something exceptional!

[xchaotic]

Ok, if it’s not a fang who do you recommend? At least some examples would be nice if you think it’s a good alternative

[_alexander_]

I think it is possible, in case if company has office. I think when we are talking about "remote", we need to pay attention to tax residence. Last week I got the offer from one of FANG and had to decline the offer due to remote work allowed only in countries where the company has an entity. So "remote" !== "Anywhere", in my case, the company proposed to me relocate to a country where the company has an entity, live here (to get tax residence), and work "remote".

[tcbasche]

Yeah I am in the process of doing this exact thing. Company is not a "FAANG" but certainly have enough of a recruitment budget to move me all the way from Australia to northern Europe :) Staying here wasn't an option, as they would have to operate here in some capacity (which they don't ... yet).

Honestly I don't see the fuss with only going for "FAANG" anyway; there's so much cool tech out there (and exciting companies!) not limited to just those 5.

[softveda]

Your sentence "do you know of any FANG which is happy to hire across international border and work with employees running their own company" implies a B2B relationship. That is the company pay by an invoice from your company, this is not an employer-employee relationship. I have known people working like that in SE Asia but not a FANG in Australia. Companies cannot employ someone in most countries where they don't have a registered office due to legal reason. There are corporation laws, employment laws, tax laws to consider.

[softveda]

Github is I believe remote and has many people working from Australia. It is owned by Microsoft.

[dred_prte_rbrts]

Not sure about employees running their own company but Facebook opened up more EU remote hiring.

[randomopining]

Can you not just use a router with openvpn?