Hybrid but with a distributed team
I'm interviewing for a hybrid position and I'm wondering if I should just stop or ask for more clarification.
The compay is a several year old startup that had a tech leadership change. They want California employees to work three days in office. I'm fine with hybrid when it makes sense.
They have two California offices and a lot of remote workers in other states (and QA in India) and I'm closer to the smaller office but it's still a long drive.
My team will be distributed and with QA in another timezone, I feel like there's little reason to mandate three days in office. I touched on this briefly with the hiring manager who said there are alot of people in this office.
I'm wondering if I should try to get more reasoning for the hybrid mandate if the team is distributed before continuing to interview or if I should just stop the processand not waste my time.
Posted May 1, 2026, 3:55 AM UTC