Not to me. I would expect any employer to cover the cost of any equipment that you might need for the role.

sadly you can get really bad deals if it's not a W-2 but a 1099-type employment deal, since then you're expected to bring your own equipment. Usually though collecting info about your bank or deposit comes after they've verified and you've filled out the W-2 stuff, if they're a legit employer that is. I've always seen in that order. It's also why some tech companies have clearly made their contract hiring through W-2 staffing agencies, rather than directly contracting them out as 1099 employees, of course it puts the burden of paying for all employee costs on the staffing agency, but they typically take a cut from the hourly rate of the client a bit to make up for that. And it's not that 1099-employment is bad in and of itself, it's just that then you have to prepare to pay for your own stuff and track all receipts for tax purposes, which is not as great when starting out on an employment path.

@Tamasg @DavidGoldfield They haven't sent me a form yet but I'll let you know and yes, they told me I'd be an official employee and not a contractor.

@DavidGoldfield yeah, then they should definitely cover your work equipment like a laptop and maybe phone, and any assistive tech you need for it and to do your job (JAWS, ETC) as a reasonable accomodation.

@Tamasg @DavidGoldfield Yeah, they were clear they'd be covering that.

@Tamasg I know this is not always the case with all employers but if I were hiring someone remotely, I wouldn't want them using their own equipment to access company resources. I don't know what they know regarding proper cybersecurity practices and I wouldn't want to chance an incident that possibly could be avoided.

haha, you mean like when I got a ransomware attack on my secondary laptop for a 1099 employer and trashed their entire Dropbox infrastructure with encrypted text files all asking for a bitcoin amount? Yeah that was... embarrassing. Thankfully Dropbox does have really good rewind features, but after that even if I'm 1099-ed I would run either in a separate VM or boot partition on a secondary machine I keep clean of personal usage and up-to-date on the OS, there's just no chancing that again with anyone.