> Often, in office, you would have coffee breaks/lunch with people from different departments That wasn't my experience working in the office. Unless you were

> Often, in office, you would have coffee breaks/lunch with people from different departments That wasn't my experience working in the office. Unless you were a manager or PM (someone whose job it was to facilitate cross-team communications), most people tended to just have lunch and coffee with either their own team or their personal friends. All of my experience has been at companies with over 1k employees though, I imagine at a smaller shop there's a bit more closeness.