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under virtually no circumstances should you actually ask a question Its funny, as this advice is the opposite of the advice we got when doing engineering onboa
by drewg123 5y ago
under virtually no circumstances should you actually ask a question
Its funny, as this advice is the opposite of the advice we got when doing engineering onboarding at Google in 2013. They told us that if we have a question in a meeting, go ahead and ask it. The reasoning is that its likely that many other people have the same question and will benefit from the answer, but were too shy to ask it themselves.
Different target audiences, I guess :)
- HelloNurse 5y agoThere's a difference between teaching to a group and working as a team. I'd expect almost everything said in "engineering onboarding" to be equally relevant for all of an homogeneous group of new recruits who have the same questions and varying ideas about their importance and obviousness. On the other hand a meeting in the Marines is likely to be about the respective orders and status reports of several people, with everybody having different problems that should be discussed individually.
- drewg123 5y agoI should have been clear. The advice to ask questions in meetings pertained to all meetings at Google, not to the short onboarding session.