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Before anyone says "Why limit yourself to San Francisco?", they weren't looking for a remote employee.
by bluedino 7y ago
Before anyone says "Why limit yourself to San Francisco?", they weren't looking for a remote employee.
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- samschooler 7y agoTo be fair, under the "Remote" section, they really are talking about outsourcing to a remote dev shop, not about remote full time employees. I understand the benefits of having a fully co-located team, however in this article they did not address fulltime remote employees. I currently work as a fulltime remote employee for a startup with a similar team size, and we are able to iterate rapidly on product.
- jimmaswell 7y agoWhy limit yourself to wasting money renting out pointless physical offices?
- minimaxir 7y agoAlthough the existence of remote work has limited the benefits of a physical office, physical offices are not obsolete.
- jimmaswell 7y agoI say they are obsolete for programmers, video editors, graphic designers, anyone whose job consists of doing things on a computer.
- hak8or 7y agoThis is blatantly false for embedded systems developers. We spend all day with computers, key being multiple computers, all which require tons of space.
- jimmaswell 7y agoA few edge cases don't discredit the general case that physical presence is mostly useless for programmers.
- the-pigeon 7y agoObsolete isn't the word. I've worked on remote engineering teams for companies that have their non-engineering workforce go to an office for the last 6 years. There's tradeoffs. Remote is much better for some things and in the same physical office everyday is much better for certain things. There's a ton of blog posts that have been on HN over the years that go into the details of the pro and cons. But anyone telling you it better one way or another in general is full of it. All depends on the details.
- jimmaswell 7y agoThe "pros" of offices I hear are always along the lines of "I can't go interrupt people at their desks." I've yet to hear a comoelling one.
- rsynnott 7y agoI personally wouldn’t consider a remote job. I’d say I’m far from alone. It may suit some people, but certainly not all.
- non-entity 7y agoI've worked remote. It was depressing be stuck in the house all day. On the flip side, a 3/2 remote/in-office week would be nice I think.
- codesushi42 7y agoThen why limit yourself to being located in SF? It's not like they are hiring people straight out of Stanford. They're getting people from bootcamps!