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Used to be for a fresh out of college worker, you just needed to show up to work on the first day, then anything you didn't know you could observe and learn thr

Used to be for a fresh out of college worker, you just needed to show up to work on the first day, then anything you didn't know you could observe and learn through a mixture of osmosis and inquisition. Now, if you start a remote job, you have to have a baseline set of skills to navigate the corporate structure. Reaching out to the "people team" (read: HR) is unlikely to be all the helpful, and you may end up asking the wrong person, who will now be silently judging you for the rest of your tenure. In person, you make a quick friend over lunch and ask some questions off the cuff.

Rooster61 4y ago
It's incumbent on us as more senior engineers to reach out to younger folks, not the other way around. That is an art I see properly practiced less and less these days.
- nixpulvis 4y ago
  Yet another reason I love co-op/intern programs. It's a great way to start building these skills for the junior members of the team, while also having fresh eyes on your product and codebases.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  It just isn’t happening in my experience. I learned so much being in the office when I started out but now it seems like most people just silo away and reappear at the next standup. The seniors get a bunch done and the juniors feel stuck and aren’t progressing. I remember learning so much about business just listening to people talk around me but now all of that knowledge is in private calls and you’ll only hear what you strictly need to hear. I’d love to go back to the office at this point but unfortunately the local businesses just aren’t competitive with remote work and WFH is still preferable to moving state.
  - solarkraft 4y ago
    It may be a bit harder to do, but in my experience people are still happy about you reaching out and them getting to share what they've been doing. It doesn't happen much but itself anymore, which is why I find a lot of value in explicitly "just chatting" with people.

Rooster61 4y ago

It's incumbent on us as more senior engineers to reach out to younger folks, not the other way around. That is an art I see properly practiced less and less these days.

nixpulvis 4y ago
Yet another reason I love co-op/intern programs. It's a great way to start building these skills for the junior members of the team, while also having fresh eyes on your product and codebases.
Gigachad 4y ago
It just isn’t happening in my experience. I learned so much being in the office when I started out but now it seems like most people just silo away and reappear at the next standup. The seniors get a bunch done and the juniors feel stuck and aren’t progressing. I remember learning so much about business just listening to people talk around me but now all of that knowledge is in private calls and you’ll only hear what you strictly need to hear. I’d love to go back to the office at this point but unfortunately the local businesses just aren’t competitive with remote work and WFH is still preferable to moving state.
- solarkraft 4y ago
  It may be a bit harder to do, but in my experience people are still happy about you reaching out and them getting to share what they've been doing. It doesn't happen much but itself anymore, which is why I find a lot of value in explicitly "just chatting" with people.