What companies are truly remote-first?

Question

What companies have committed to be truly remote-first (no hybrid-model companies or ones where leadership is non-remote)?

0x54MUR41 · Accepted Answer

There are GitLab, Automattic, Zapier, and Mozilla according to Amur Software [0]. They define the companies that are on the list with this method.
> To qualify as a distributed company work must be done primarily online and in a remote-first, remote-friendly fashion. Periodic employee meet-ups or corporate retreats are okay, and having office location(s) is okay, but leadership and corporate decision-making cannot run out of a centralized face-to-face headquarters while some percentage of employees opt-in to working remotely.
Recently, they released a new list of distributed companies for 2020 [1].
[0]: https://www.amursoftware.com/blog/what-are-the-biggest-distr...
[1]: https://www.amursoftware.com/biggest-distributed-companies

scottporad · Answer

Automattic (aka Wordpress.com) was remote first since 2008, at least.

dmlittle · Answer

Zapier, GitLab and Hashicorp are a few that come to mind. I believe Hashicorp even has a rule were for a given team you can't have 3 or more people in the same city.

diehunde · Answer

I think Elastic (the company behind ElasticSearch).

oldsj · Answer

Ad Hoc (Modern US Government Contractor) adhocteam.us

johnjungles · Answer

Mattermost

markholmes · Answer

You Need A Budget

mjrbrennan · Answer

Discourse!

atmosx · Answer

scrapinghub is fully remote.

claudiug · Answer

basecamp

sqs · Answer

Sourcegraph is all-remote: https://about.sourcegraph.com/company/remote.