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Coding by yourself can obviously done anywhere. Working with other people is much faster and easier in person, and arguably the more important part of the job f
by throwaway1777 5y ago
Coding by yourself can obviously done anywhere. Working with other people is much faster and easier in person, and arguably the more important part of the job for high level engineers. This is why I think hybrid office/remote is a pretty solid approach.
- flyinglizard 5y agoI find it much easier to collaborate over Zoom when I have all my screen space and computer to myself. I prefer it so much that I actually changed our company weeklies to be remote-first.
- Taylor_OD 5y ago100%. I was used to only working with other engineers over zoom. I started going into the office and I was shocked when I realized I either had to sit with my laptop on my lap which is inferior to my own set up or just follow along as someone else used their computer which I couldnt see well.
- unsui 5y agoagreed. The virtues of pair/team programming really took a hold for my team when WFH forced us to do screen-sharing rather than just sitting next to each other. Now, we regularly do screen-sharing for development and demos, with the process of screen-sharing being as normal a part of our development cycle as pull-requests.
- flowerlad 5y ago> Working with other people is much faster and easier in person Does "in person" mean sitting next to each other? Or can they be in different rooms? I have seen developers collaborating over Slack even when they are in the same floor in the same building. And if collaborating over Slack works then it doesn't matter if you're in the same building... or even in the same town.