If 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

If 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.