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> I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack That works fo
by dsl 5y ago
> I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack
That works for companies with less than 100 engineers. Everyone seems to have forgotten the good ol days where you had in person meetings and had to dial in half the team from Europe or include Fred who is working from home.
- thebean11 5y agoIt doesn't matter how many engineers there are as long as the teams are colocated. Yes you will need to have zoom meetings with other teams but interaction within the team can be almost fully in person.
- mulmen 5y agoThis was almost never my experience. The actual time to get feedback in an office is between four hours and two days. Managers are almost never at their desks because they are attending meetings all day. Same for senior engineers. If you need a quick response IM is your best option. Your whole team of engineers will almost never be in the same place. Someone will be in a meeting, somewhere. Or hiding trying to get work done. You might get lucky and the person you need to talk to is at their desk, but they will be busy trying to catch up before or after a meeting. In office communication is already asynchronous. Every day you will run into these problems. The idea of (especially open) offices fostering communication is a complete fantasy. Email and chat are the way actual communication is done in corporate America. Synchronous communication isn’t feasible.
- dsl 5y agoSure, as long as $impossible is true, it works well. You can have a front end Javascript team all stuck in Portland, but that falls apart for any advanced skill set. Try convincing the worlds 20 leading experts in X to live in one city.
- thebean11 5y agoI've never been on a team of 20 leading experts in any field, sounds interesting..