I've worked at a few companies remotely. One company was absolutely abysmal. No video chat ever. None. Never saw my coworkers' faces. Who can work like that? O

I've worked at a few companies remotely. One company was absolutely abysmal. No video chat ever. None. Never saw my coworkers' faces. Who can work like that? Obviously they can, but man that sucked. Second company was a bit better, but not great. Avoided collaboration and/or video chat pretty strongly but not entirely. Which was weird because when we did do it, everybody was very chatty and they were also good working sessions. Current company has been great. Strong collaborative culture but they also respect if somebody just needs to focus solo. I would say that overall this company scratches like, maybe, 80% of my itch as far as being immersed with other engineers (in terms of actual collaborative work, and random tech talk bullshit) is concerned.