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IC comp ain’t complicated — you want people who are good at what you need them to do, and you need to make them a more attractive offer than your competition, s
by gorgoiler 4y ago
IC comp ain’t complicated — you want people who are good at what you need them to do, and you need to make them a more attractive offer than your competition, so that they work for you instead of the other company. Remote work is fine for them. They probably prefer it to being interrupted all day with meetings. They know all about how boring such things can be from reading Dilbert.
What do you do about leadership? Do global/permaremote companies have managers, staff eng, and c-level members who never meet more regularly than once a quarter? Does remote-work as a leader in a global/remote-first business mean frequent trips to airports? How does it work when your job is more than “make the CI faster”?
If you do one thing for ICs and another for leaders, are you tacitly saying to all remote ICs that they’ll never progress to a leadership role?
People say that remote IC work is mercenary and very much like contracting. To that extent, if you take a remote salaried position, are you doing yourself a disservice compared to taking the dispassionate, transactional, disposable contractor-style role without the contractor pay?
- wrs 4y agoThere are plenty of high-level remote leaders, even at large conservative companies, who don’t meet in person more than once a quarter. Especially after the last couple of years.
- pishpash 4y agoRemote work has led to more meetings than ever was the case in person. Google Calendar's default 30 minute meeting has made things a lot worse so that each interruption is now at least 30 minutes.
- bombcar 4y agoSomeone needs to create the 30 Minute hour - where you can only be in a meeting for half of the actual hour heh.
- winrid 4y agoSame. I left one company due to multiple standups a day once WFH started.
- actionablefiber 4y agoDo you commonly use the full meeting time though...? My experience with remote meetings has been that either you just terminate the call when you're done with whatever you started the call for, or you end it after 30 minutes because one or more people have meetings to go to, or you keep going for however long the problem still exists and all participants are available to work on it (or until you give up and shelve it for another time). But in most cases 30 minutes ends up being the upper bound on interruption time, not the lower bound.
- sokoloff 4y agoIf I have a 10-10:30 and 10:30-11 meeting and the first one ends after 17 minutes, the effective interruption is still 30 minutes IMO.