Last I checked, they generally do require you to live in SF, Seattle or similarly "awful places". If anything, rampant homelessness and crime seem to be highly correlated with cities that have "FAANG" HQs.
Given that four of the FAANG companies are headquartered, not in San Francisco, but in suburbs south of it (Menlo Park, Mountain View, Cupertino, and Los Gatos), I'm not sure what you're on about. Los Gatos isn't perfect, but it's not some haven of homelessness and crime.
I lived in the bay area for years, in the city, in Oakland and in Moutain View for a year. I agree the south bay is less chaotic than SF. It's still a lot more chaotic than either Colorado, where I was born, or Taiwan, where I've spent most my life. To me, the US west coast was always a sacrifice of quality of life for career growth.
If you need a code to enter the bathroom at your local coffee shop, you might want to consider moving somewhere with a bit higher baseline for public spaces.
San Francisco is still an incredible city to live and work in if you're young and don't have a family (which is a huge part of the workforce). The homelessness problem is blown out of proportion in terms of everyday living (it's still ridiculous from a societal point of view, but still)
To be fair, my experience there was all in 2012-2015.
It’s not just homelessness, though. Stores here in Taipei aren’t shutting down due to huge losses from shoplifting, but that’s happened to multiple places I used to go to regularly in SF. Nobody I know here has been robbed in public, either. In contrast, my friend’s mom had her purse stolen from her in broad daylight on the street in SF and several other friends had their cars broken into.
Wait, you're comparing an American city to Taipei, and saying it has a crime problem?
Why not compare it to another American city? You'll quickly discover that these 'worst' cities are middle of the road when it comes to most forms of crime, the real horrible places in the US are not in the liberal coastal states. The vast majority of them are in the tough-on-crime god-fearing ones.
(I also always found it a little weird how many of the stores citing crime for closing are ones that just happened to have unionized, but maybe that's just a coincidence...)
If you think Seattle, outside of ~18 square blocks is an "awful place" by the definition of even the most dyed-in-the-wool WASP, you've either never been to the city, never been outside Pioneer Square, or have been eating way too much political propaganda.
Last I checked, they generally do require you to live in SF, Seattle or similarly "awful places". If anything, rampant homelessness and crime seem to be highly correlated with cities that have "FAANG" HQs.