Current spec is that you should spend at least 25% of the time in SF per month. We’ve a slight preference for folks who can be here full-time, but that’s easily overwhelmed by a promising candidate.
It certainly loses us some talent. So far the feeling is that it’s worth it for the cultural benefits, but that might change in future. We’ve definitely noticed that ‘similar timezone’ is the majority of the friction in folks working remotely, so that might be the thing to specify rather than explicitly being on-site.
Is Anthropic looking for remote engineers, or only SF-based? (and if the latter, do you feel this limits the available talent)
Current spec is that you should spend at least 25% of the time in SF per month. We’ve a slight preference for folks who can be here full-time, but that’s easily overwhelmed by a promising candidate.
It certainly loses us some talent. So far the feeling is that it’s worth it for the cultural benefits, but that might change in future. We’ve definitely noticed that ‘similar timezone’ is the majority of the friction in folks working remotely, so that might be the thing to specify rather than explicitly being on-site.