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Just as an aside, you can hire a remote DBA to help out, until you get a full time person. We have a contracted 3rd party that does secondary monitoring around

by briffle 10y ago

Just as an aside, you can hire a remote DBA to help out, until you get a full time person. We have a contracted 3rd party that does secondary monitoring around the clock, and a very, very good pro that we work with on projects. In our case, we have a 'retainer' for 15 hours a month. (and a fixed cost per hour after)

haylem 10y ago
The entire GitLab team is remote, as far as I understand their company model. https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/ But maybe you meant part-time?
- developer2 10y ago
  Wow, that explains quite literally everything. Never, ever, trust a company whose cost-cutting measures involves opting to not pay for office space to run a legitimate business. The attempt to tout the lack of a full office as being "modern, hip, and cool" is a blatant lie from management - it's the same concept as open-office floor plans, reimagined and magnified by a thousand. They get to save hundreds of thousands (possibly even a couple of million) dollars a year; meanwhile, you get the exactly the kind of product you'd expect from a bunch of people pretending to be productive from home and working in such a disjointed fashion. It is always a HUGE red flag when a company opts to have all or a majority of their workforce working remotely. It's a cost-cutting measure, nothing more. Cutting costs equates to cutting corners, and the business - and its customers - suffer the deserved consequences. This really explains the flippant "it's 11pm and I want to go to bed" reaction in their report. The guy doesn't have an office to go to when shit hits the fan. He's sitting at home, with a bloody ssh terminal open, trying to remotely debug critical engineering problems over a slow vpn connection. Alarmingly huge red warning flags.
  - anonymous_green 10y ago
    Cost-cutting measure don't just end at the office space level, they hire cheap developers too. There's quite a big divide between salaries they pay to their team in US and remote team and they get to do it just because they are "remote".
  - yuhong 10y ago
    I think remote is better than open office floor plans in many cases. It just have different problems.

by briffle 10y ago

haylem 10y ago

The entire GitLab team is remote, as far as I understand their company model. https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/ But maybe you meant part-time?

developer2 10y ago
Wow, that explains quite literally everything. Never, ever, trust a company whose cost-cutting measures involves opting to not pay for office space to run a legitimate business. The attempt to tout the lack of a full office as being "modern, hip, and cool" is a blatant lie from management - it's the same concept as open-office floor plans, reimagined and magnified by a thousand. They get to save hundreds of thousands (possibly even a couple of million) dollars a year; meanwhile, you get the exactly the kind of product you'd expect from a bunch of people pretending to be productive from home and working in such a disjointed fashion. It is always a HUGE red flag when a company opts to have all or a majority of their workforce working remotely. It's a cost-cutting measure, nothing more. Cutting costs equates to cutting corners, and the business - and its customers - suffer the deserved consequences. This really explains the flippant "it's 11pm and I want to go to bed" reaction in their report. The guy doesn't have an office to go to when shit hits the fan. He's sitting at home, with a bloody ssh terminal open, trying to remotely debug critical engineering problems over a slow vpn connection. Alarmingly huge red warning flags.
- anonymous_green 10y ago
  Cost-cutting measure don't just end at the office space level, they hire cheap developers too. There's quite a big divide between salaries they pay to their team in US and remote team and they get to do it just because they are "remote".
- yuhong 10y ago
  I think remote is better than open office floor plans in many cases. It just have different problems.