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I’ve noticed a strong correlation between struggling to find a job and only looking remote.

It’s a 2020 anomaly that’s gone. You need a relationship developed from in-person work to get it.

I also think there is a noticeable drop in the quality of the interviews on the employers side. My friends still in the bay tell me there is a noticeable drop in the quality of the people they work with in the office. Look at the languages they are asking for, they are the languages that are cheap to develop for. But software isn't manufacturing, its more like some sort of publishing. And just making something for cheap is the best way to go out of business in publishing. I suspect that will be happening in the future. I know quite a few devs like the author who instead just started their own software business. Some are doing well, others not so much. I suspect this is the future of tech and it won't be in SV.

If you're only willing to work 100% remotely then you are competing with everyone in the world. Melbourne, where OP lives, has quite a few developing markets within a few hours of timezone offset. This is especially true of MNC with a strong presence in APAC.

And whether true or not you’re also signaling negative worker traits.

All low engagement employees want to work remote. But not all remote workers are low engagement. How do you properly position yourself?

'Negative worker traits'? - please explain what you mean by this

I suspect he means things that HR thinks are important but aren't.

They are signaling they aren’t a good worker. For example, “I really hate to wake up in the morning. Is it ok if I work from 11 AM - 7 PM”?

Do you manage people? When they put their butt in a seat actually says nothing about their work ethic or productivity.

There was an article like a year ago about how AI was making software engineers unemployable, with a single engineer as their case study. Except the guy lived in rural NY state and only wanted to work remote.

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