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i am also a technical person and work on small teams generally. my take on team weeks/retreats is that they’re unique opportunities to get to know the people yo

i am also a technical person and work on small teams generally. my take on team weeks/retreats is that they’re unique opportunities to get to know the people you work with more closely and what motivates them. doing the same work you do 40 weeks of the year, just in person, is a severe wasted opportunity. pair programming remotely over video will accomplish the same thing. i also want and expect technical conversations to happen during that time. what i’ve found works great is that you do other stuff, hackathons, lightning talks, and yeah, some of the stuff you hate, forced socialization or activities. in my experience this leads to great conversations and ideas over dinner and leaves us all excited to get back home to get back to the “regular” work.

_8j50 4y ago
Let me ask you this, why do I have to get to know people? Because I certainly don't want people at work to get to know me and when forced I have to make stuff up basically. We are not a "family", family don't get to fire each other lol. Most of you on HN are programmers, so let me ask why you need to know about a persons life to code with them? In my experience even at work people go out of their way to avoid technical discussions. Many even refuse to do their job unless you become their best friend. I expect mangement to weed bullshitters like that out not encourage it by mandating forced bullshitting basically.