It&#x27;s completely accurate - hence the location part.  If you sought to add clarification, the first sentence was unneccessary.  Let&#x27;s confine this to &quot;they won&#x27;t hire in most of the Continental United States&quot;.  Even for exceptional candidates, remote is also completely out of the question for them.  That&#x27;s obviously their right and I don&#x27;t hold them against them.  (But it&#x27;s worth contrasting with someone like Red Hat, who will hire someone from anywhere if they are awesome).<p>I have had lots of experience with Google and Amazon recruiters where CA was the only viable option. Google also tended to have a bad habit of offering SRE positions for datacenters in the sticks, but that was not a development-flavored SRE thing in the least.  They pretty much close the door on you if you don&#x27;t want to move and are dropping the ball on some pretty awesome development centers IMHO.<p>Facebook is often avoided by some very sharp kernel (and other) folks, because they greatly insist on a boot camp and can&#x27;t guarantee what department you are going to work for.  They lost some brilliant folks as a result.  I wouldn&#x27;t work for them for that reason, as I think the team and the manager are the most important parts of the hiring decision.<p>Yes, Google has other offices, but they are not hiring people in some pretty darn major development regions.  There is <i>allegeldy</i> an office in Chapel Hill for instance, but it seems to be on the edge of being decomissioned and no recruiter will tell you anything about it.<p>So, yeah, it&#x27;s not quite like you can just work anywhere.