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> Does the team have regular offsites and team building activities? When is the next one? Don’t take a wishy-washy, “There’s a budget for team building” answer.
by heavyset_go 4y ago
> Does the team have regular offsites and team building activities? When is the next one? Don’t take a wishy-washy, “There’s a budget for team building” answer. You deserve to get to know your teammates.
> Do I have to schedule meetings for discussions or are employees expected to be online at all times? At an earlier consulting role, I had given my team a single Google Meet link where everyone was expected to hang out at all times when they were not doing deep work. This idea became so popular that the link eventually got a nickname and other teams knew to just pop in to ask questions. This link truly was a virtual office for the team.
This sounds like a nightmare. The only takeaway I got from this article is to avoid any company that the OP has consulted for.
- saimiam 4y agoIf you're a developer or IC, wanting to working alone if perfectly acceptable. If you need to work with a set of peers who have intrinsic knowledge of a barely documented system, you will need to build relationships. Also, did you miss the part where teammates were expected to be online while NOT engaged in deep work? They were simply expected to be online, not online AND engaged in team building chit-chat. There is something to be said about being stuck in a system review and having the option to quickly ask a teammate a question. If you have recently started a role which requires collaboration in a remote-first company and have not face any ramp-up issues while also not having had to invest in getting to know your peers and systems, I'd love to know more. My suspicion is that if this has happened with you, the team you joined had a superior on-boarding process to the one my friend experienced.