Remote work and the tech industry go together like cookies and cream: Coding, tech support, and project management can all be done from any location with an internet connection. Plus, the tech business is rife with sprawling corporations like Google or Microsoft that always have hundreds of positions open at any time of the year.
So, it’s no wonder that potential employees are constantly looking towards Apple for fully remote positions. The company currently has a market cap of $3.22 trillion, which makes the tech giant what we in the business world call “richer than god.”
Its corporate and engineering teams are just two of the areas that are constantly hiring, and despite some blowback against remote work in the tech industry, they still have a decent amount of work-from-home options open (even if Microsoft still has them beat by a country mile).
Here, we’ll take a look at the best 100% remote positions at Apple that are open at the time of writing, and we’ll throw in a little job interview advice and perspectives on your remote living options to boot.
Fully Remote Apple Jobs: Listings for June 2024
Right now, Apple has 33 remote jobs available when searching their careers portal while using the “home office” tag. There were just 27 similar positions open last month, and 33 is about the highest number of open positions we tend to see from the company.
As always, the company lists geographical locations that relate to the office that you’ll be working with if accepted. Here’s a snapshot of the most interesting open positions, although you can always see the entire group for yourself on the company job site.
- Benefits Analyst (London, Greater London, UK)
- K-12 Education Account Executive, (Nashville, Tennessee, US)
- Higher Education Account Executive, (Phoenix, Arizona, US)
- Strategic System Engineer, (Los Angeles, California, US)
- Core OS Integration Engineer, (Prague, Bohemia, Czechia)
- Threat Intelligence Analyst, SEAR, (Washington DC, US)
- Specialist: Full-Time, Part-Time, and Part-Time Temporary (Apple Retail Stores), (Toronto, Ontario, CA)
- Facility Manager, (Atlanta, Georgia, US)
- Enterprise Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, (Minneapolis, Minnesota, US)
- Research Engineer – AI Interpretability & Safety, (Seattle, Washington, US)
- SAP Business Security Liaison, (Culver City, California, US)
You’ll have to check each of the positions you’re interested in by following the links above, so that you can confirm that they’re still available – there’s a steady churn and a new crop of positions will be available soon.
Is Remote Working Really for You?
Surveys have confirmed what you could likely have guessed by yourself: Some types of people thrive in fully remote positions, while others really prefer to work in person, and still more workers enjoy a hybrid model that keeps them in the office two or three days a week.
The real takeaway is that workplace flexibilty should always be an option for as many people as possible. Of course, some positions must be done in person, like many public service jobs or customer-facing work. However, opening up all white collar work to incorporate at least a some fully remote positions is a huge benefit to everyone who prefers it.
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Genuine accommodations are a big reason to support flexible options, too: Let’s not forget everyone who anticipates a need to care for young children or elderly parents, as well as any workers with disabilities that prevent them from commuting or working on an office.
Sadly, many of the downsides to working remotely come from managers and C-suite execs that can’t handle the concept – here’s how we explained the phenomenon using stats from a 2022 survey:
Some of the most surprising results detail how executive staff feel remote working affects the career progression of their employees. A huge 41% of survey respondents said remote employees would be less likely to be considered for promotion.
Why is this? Well, it can in part be explained by the fact that 43% of executives surveyed agreed that remote employees are less wired in to a company’s culture, whilst just over half (52%) felt employees working from home or elsewhere were “overly reliant on others to be able to collaborate remotely.”
Of course, if you find yourself among those overlooked for promotion when annual reviews roll around, you can always take your salary in your own hands and start looking for the next fully remote position at a company that can treat you better.
For that, look no further than our monthly roundups of the best remote jobs available at today’s top tech companies.
Do You Want to Try Out Life as a Digtal Nomad?
You don’t need to complete all your work while paying a high rent to stay in a cramped New York City or Seattle apartment for every work day. You might want to consider digital nomadism, the term for white collar workers who take full advantage of their remote status to travel the world while keeping up with their nine-to-five.
If you’d like to take a crack at it, we have a few guides that might help. First, you’ll need a job that makes it easy to travel remotely or work odd hours: Some good digital nomad jobs include web designing, data analysis, or serving as a virtual assistant.
You can take a look at all the top countries to visit as well, which involves the biggest pain: Figuring out which digital nomad visas are best, and how long you’ll be able to use them. Costa Rica, Malta, and Anguilla all topped our list, but there are many of other off-the-beaten-path options available, and some come with nice tax breaks to boot.
Just don’t forget to have a backup plan. International travel can be a challenge, and you’ll always want to have the funds for an emergency plane trip right back to your home country if anything serious goes wrong.
How to Nail Your Remote Job Interview
If you can actually get an interview, you’re doing better than most: The real challenge these days is getting past all the automated resume-screening services, or avoiding a ghost job position that was always going to go to an internal candidate anyway.
However, once you’re hopping on a Zoom call to chat with a potential manager, you’ll have to know what to say. We’ve discussed all the top most common job interview questions and answers in the past, but they can be summed up pretty easily: The typical job interviewer just wants to know that you have the past experience to handle the position, that you have the skills to work well with others, and that you have the aptitude that will make working with you simple, easy, and maybe even fun.
For entirely remote positions, there are a few different skills that will be essential to show off: You’ll need to convince the interviewer that you are motivated to work on your own, you can communicate even from across the country, you can make decisions by yourself, and you have all the technical know-how to handle the software stack that you’ll be using.
Once you’re all done, you might even want to send them a thank you email.
