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Answer to all of those is: "it depends". It all depends on the company and contact you negotiate and whether your remote position is a unique one or the standard way of working.

A lot depends on what you accept as ok. I'd reject any offer that involves webcam/screen recording. Both because it's creepy and because the company defaults to no trust. If the manager can't figure out if you're doing a good work or not by looking only at your work output, that manager is useless.

Time difference is annoying. Small shifts shouldn't matter. For big shifts like US/EU you have to learn to communicate in large batches that people can respond to overnight completely and without a need to clarify more details.

If you never worked remotely before and the company doesn't have at least half of the team in remote positions, you'll likely struggle. There's going to be too much ad-hoc communication you're not involved in.

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