Do you get to travel for work as a software engineer? Whenever I plan to take a vacation to a new place there is always work and work takes a priority. Other times I just end up traveling to my home country.
Depends on the company. Google? Yes.
I have seen people at the company working remotely for a few weeks in their home country.
Ya. That's pretty common. But what I mean is traveling for the work - all paid and taken care of by the company.
As Sales / Solution Engineer, there will be lots of travel. Not much as Software Engineer.
If you're at a body shop / consulting company, you get to travel for work to client sites. Otherwise, you can always travel to conferences and stuff that are relevant to your job. OP - if you are trying to pick a job based on fringe benefits that are less than week's pay, you're doing it wrong.
No. It is just 'nice to have' thing. Of course I can afford it myself. When you are married and/or have kids, these benefits are blessing in disguise :)
Depends on whether you want it or not. Early in career I liked it.. so got into projects where It was needed. Travel for work got boring pretty fast.. same copy paste hotels and bars.. and same crappy boring meetings.. Now I don't like to travel.. and have a project where it's up to me If I want to attend that one party a year on the other side of the country.
Travel for work gets old quickly. You miss out on time that you could be investing into your local community & network- friends/family/ hobby groups/ SO
I agree. I myself have traveled a bit and missed few important family events.
Fairly common at Uber if you work outside the Bay Area
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