I’ve only ever been a people manager in a remote only world, but I’ve also successfully ramped up plenty new hires, most of home have been more successful than

I’ve only ever been a people manager in a remote only world, but I’ve also successfully ramped up plenty new hires, most of home have been more successful than those who started on in person teams in the same cohort. I suspect the biggest issue to overcome was ensuring new hires have lots of time carved out for them across the team and ensuring they take advantage of it. When you can go physically knock on someones door you are harder to ignore then an IM or channel message, and it is more natural. Getting the team culture to be responsive to new members took deliberate work, but now it seems to be self perpetuating. As for coordination, deliberate use of process and tooling helps a lot, but it remains challenging. We seem to get good value from all extra the formal meetings the article mentions, but there is still difficulty making sure everyone is on the same page at the detail level.