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I work at a 100% remote company and I have no trouble getting the mentorship I desire/need from more experienced folks. Maybe the key is 100% remote though. I

I work at a 100% remote company and I have no trouble getting the mentorship I desire/need from more experienced folks. Maybe the key is 100% remote though. I hear remote sucks if it's not ingrained in a companies communication patterns.

pkaye 10y ago
How do you handle discussing complex code, data structures and such concepts over online? In such cases, I find that being in the same room and using a white board makes it easy to communicate across. Maybe some programming domains that type of issue if less common?
- roughcoat 10y ago
  Some kind of screen sharing app with Krita = virtual whiteboard. You have a lot more room than a real whiteboard offers, since Krita has a "pseudo-infinite" canvas, so you don't need to erase things. And you can save the file for reference, or to send it other people.
- Const-me 10y ago
  Sometimes (not too often) I do such things remotely. In my case, voice call + screen sharing works OK. On the screen sharing I can use whatever software I find adequate, be it Word, Visio, Paint.net, balsamic mockups, etc. As a side effect, we can continue working on those documents/diagrams/whatever after the discussion, e.g. include it in the documentation. Much harder to achieve with a white board as someone needs to digitize those drawing. In my experience working offline with whiteboards, no one actually doing that. In the best case, a digital photo is kept somewhere no one will be looking, in the worst case the board is just wiped clean.
- hamandcheese 10y ago
  In some cases people literally point their camera at a whiteboard!
  - pklausler 10y ago
    You laugh, but it works really well to do this so long as you remember to stand out of the way of the camera.
blktiger 10y ago
My previous job wasn't really setup to do remote work but we had a second team working almost 12 hours opposite (Romania vs Kansas). The "offshore" team was paying a heavy tax because everyone was working at the office, so we had a ton of hallway conversations that never got documented anywhere they could access it. Even though everyone knew this, because we were co-located it was extremely difficult to overcome because it's just so easy to not document things. When your entire team is 100% remote, you are forced to document things a lot more since there aren't hallway conversations unless you specifically video chat with a single individual.

pkaye 10y ago

How do you handle discussing complex code, data structures and such concepts over online? In such cases, I find that being in the same room and using a white board makes it easy to communicate across. Maybe some programming domains that type of issue if less common?

roughcoat 10y ago
Some kind of screen sharing app with Krita = virtual whiteboard. You have a lot more room than a real whiteboard offers, since Krita has a "pseudo-infinite" canvas, so you don't need to erase things. And you can save the file for reference, or to send it other people.
Const-me 10y ago
Sometimes (not too often) I do such things remotely. In my case, voice call + screen sharing works OK. On the screen sharing I can use whatever software I find adequate, be it Word, Visio, Paint.net, balsamic mockups, etc. As a side effect, we can continue working on those documents/diagrams/whatever after the discussion, e.g. include it in the documentation. Much harder to achieve with a white board as someone needs to digitize those drawing. In my experience working offline with whiteboards, no one actually doing that. In the best case, a digital photo is kept somewhere no one will be looking, in the worst case the board is just wiped clean.
hamandcheese 10y ago
In some cases people literally point their camera at a whiteboard!
- pklausler 10y ago
  You laugh, but it works really well to do this so long as you remember to stand out of the way of the camera.

blktiger 10y ago

My previous job wasn't really setup to do remote work but we had a second team working almost 12 hours opposite (Romania vs Kansas). The "offshore" team was paying a heavy tax because everyone was working at the office, so we had a ton of hallway conversations that never got documented anywhere they could access it. Even though everyone knew this, because we were co-located it was extremely difficult to overcome because it's just so easy to not document things. When your entire team is 100% remote, you are forced to document things a lot more since there aren't hallway conversations unless you specifically video chat with a single individual.