Unfortunately not, though as Tom L points out below, if your concern is about getting a visa, that’s relatively easy to do. DeepMind will provide assistance with the process. I went through it myself and it was relatively painless; it probably took 5-10 hours of my time total (including e.g. travel to and from the appointment where they collected biometric data).
Whilst that’s definitely great, my guess is that 90% of the people who would be interested and don’t live in London, would not move to London for the job, even with a free Visa. Not supporting remote work therefore loses out on a majority of the potential talent pool for this job.
I don’t have a strong opinion on whether it is good to support remote work. I agree we lose out on a lot of potential talent, but we also gain productivity benefits from in person collaboration.
However, this is a DeepMind-wide policy and I’m definitely not sold enough on the importance of supporting remote work to try and push for an exception here.
Unfortunately not, though as Tom L points out below, if your concern is about getting a visa, that’s relatively easy to do. DeepMind will provide assistance with the process. I went through it myself and it was relatively painless; it probably took 5-10 hours of my time total (including e.g. travel to and from the appointment where they collected biometric data).
Whilst that’s definitely great, my guess is that 90% of the people who would be interested and don’t live in London, would not move to London for the job, even with a free Visa. Not supporting remote work therefore loses out on a majority of the potential talent pool for this job.
I don’t have a strong opinion on whether it is good to support remote work. I agree we lose out on a lot of potential talent, but we also gain productivity benefits from in person collaboration.
However, this is a DeepMind-wide policy and I’m definitely not sold enough on the importance of supporting remote work to try and push for an exception here.
Pretty disappointing and unexpected to hear this in 2022, after all the learnings from the pandemic.