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We have two offices, one in Palo Alto, one in SOMA. Our product teams are based in Palo Alto, but client services, customer success, etc are based in SOMA. We w
by erichurkman 11y ago
We have two offices, one in Palo Alto, one in SOMA. Our product teams are based in Palo Alto, but client services, customer success, etc are based in SOMA. We want a lot of cross-pollination between those groups and our product teams, so we commute to the main office once a week. It works pretty well – sometimes talking face to face is more effective than through Hangouts or Slack.
Obvious disclaimer: engineering at eShares.
- jldugger 11y agoBe that as it may, eShares has essentially made choosing a home with a short commute impossible.
- Eridrus 11y agoDoes your commute to the non-home office count as work time?
- phamilton 11y agoI did the opposite for about a year, PA to SF once a week. In our company, it was pretty forgiving. Most people going to SF were in the office from 10:30-4. I'd leave home and be back at roughly the same times as when I went to work down the street.
- packetized 11y agoWater cooler talk & f2f meetings are essential to building intra- and inter-office relations. However, given a choice between a job that mandated this and one that didn't, I'd choose the one that didn't. Given that I have a 25 minute walk to work every day, I'm sure that my worldview is terribly skewed, and I acknowledge how lucky I am to have such a great commuting situation. But that still strikes me as odd. Are product teams under the same mandate?
- erichurkman 11y agoNo. Product does not. Our Palo Alto office is larger and has always been our main 'hub'.