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I spent 17 years at a 70k+ tech megacorp. As a product manager for global cross functional teams, I interacted closely with >1000 people across all spectrums. N
by wintermutestwin 5y ago
I spent 17 years at a 70k+ tech megacorp. As a product manager for global cross functional teams, I interacted closely with >1000 people across all spectrums. Not once did I encounter an employee who regularly interacted with another outside of work related functions.
- dasil003 5y agoI have worked cross-functionally a lot as well, and I'm baffled how you would make such a matter-of-fact statement. How would you even know? If I do hang out with colleagues outside of work, I will generally not be talking about it as there's lots of potential for weird perceptions of favoritism or cliqueyness.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoYou are right. I should have included the clause "that I was aware of." Considering that I spent a lot of time with many different groups of co-workers (including quasi-social activities), I would guess that I would have noticed a hint of non-work related friendship activities in some large % of those that I was interacting with. I should also note that this was a buyer of startups rather than an actual startup (no matter how much they gave lip-service to the idea that we were supposed to act like "a startup within a megacorp.")
- WastingMyTime89 5y ago> Not once did I encounter an employee who regularly interacted with another outside of work related functions. No offense to you but statistically 40% of people have dated a coworker at least once and people hold on average 12 jobs in their life so if you interacted with 1000 persons there is a good chance that at least 30 of them were definitely interacting with a coworker outside of work related function.