Work remote == Career Suicide, right

For all of these companies purportedly shifting to remote work, FB included, nobody on the four teams I have directly worked with so far has ACTUALLY taken the plunge to transition to perma remote. Sure, some people are temporarily home with their families, and others are staying in places like Marin, Dublin, and Santa Cruz, but most immigrants' home base is in Silicon Valley already, and these people aren't going through the application process for permanent remote work since they are staying close to MPK -- meanwhile, others aren't too keen on salary cuts to leave Tier 1 cities and go work in, say, Republican-land or other US states like Siberia.

When we all get called back into the office in Summer 2021, it will suddenly be back to normal, and the people working remotely will end up getting sidelined (especially E5s, EMs, and TLs whose good performance depends on face time relationships with XFN and junior engineers).

People in the office will work closely together at their desks again like before, and nobody will think to suddenly open up BlueJeans and all go to a meeting room in order to _include_ the one or two remote coworkers in their technical discussions, so really, they'll just end up getting isolated and end up not getting promoted at best, MM at worst.

I'm skeptical FB will ever truly become a remote-first or remote-only company, as we just signed the big lease for a NYC office, for example, and corona is already around the corner with Pfizer vaccine coming soon early next year, HR giving us an "update" in early March about office re-openings, and Biden likely getting elected next month. People will want to just return back to normal as soon as they can (important not to get too caught up in the just the now, which might mislead you into thinking corona ending is still a distant future).