Ask HN: Do people treat you differently based on your location?

2 pointscam03y ago2 comments

The prevailing narrative over the past couple of years is that the tech industry is now truly global. It doesn't matter where you live - you can start a company, get funding, or get job offers whether you live in SF, NYC, Taipei, Rio de Janeiro, or wherever.

Is there any real evidence that this is approaching reality, or is it mostly run-of-the-mill Twitter nonsense? Has anyone noticed an objective difference in how potential employees, investors, employers or colleagues treat or react to you / your company based on where you're physically located these days?

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version_five3y ago

Location correlates with a lot of other stuff. I think people underestimate the relevance of that other stuff.

If you have US education and experience, you can be living somewhere else and have access to the same remote opportunities (for the most part, baring admin stuff) as someone in the US.

If you don't have "western" experience and education, you don't have a leg up.

These are just simple examples. The point is everything else being equal, physical location almost certainly matters less. But everything else is not equal, and so location still strongly predicts opportunity.

ggm3y ago

Yes. I have colleagues in different time zones and feel they are marginalised by almost all work processes.

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