Coinbase will be a remote-first company
I&#x27;m really curious, how many people actually prefer WFH permanently vs. just having the flexibility to WFH when wanted.<p>If I wanted to stay home forever I&#x27;d have just taken a remote consulting job a long time ago, but I enjoy going to office and there is a lot of benefits that you don&#x27;t get from being remote 100%. I&#x27;ve also made very good friends at work and I see my coworkers as much more than just another GitHub account that reviews my Pull Requests.<p>But again, maybe I&#x27;m the exception to the rule and most engineers just want to stay focused on their immediate work and not leave the house and minimize human interaction. But knowing my own personality, if I know a company is mostly remote work culture I&#x27;ll likely cross it out from my list of places to work.<p>Also I saw this from the blog post:<p>&gt;There are no explicit or implicit disadvantages to working from any location: all employees have the same experience regardless of where they are.<p>Unless Coinbase somehow figured out a way to discard factors caused by human psychology from millions of years of evolution, I just don&#x27;t see how that&#x27;s possible for anything other than low to mid-tier ICs with minimal no career ambition.<p>From my personal experiences most high level decisions are made, or at least started from countless hallway&#x2F;micro-kitchen conversations or informal coffee walks, and meetings are just a way to present to people of decisions that&#x27;s already made.<p>The cynical part of me thinks all this &quot;WFH Permanently&quot; initiative is just a disguise for companies to start lowering cost for entry to mid-level IC positions by hiring from areas with much cheaper CoL. Which makes sense, there is nothing special about an entry level JS frontend dev in SF that warrants you paying them $150k&#x2F;yr when you can hire the same talent from another state for half that much or from a different country for a quarter that much.