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It doesn’t matter where you work, as long as you get the work done Good tech orgs list expectations for each role, and every senior role requires you to be imp
by gorgoiler 4y ago
It doesn’t matter where you work, as long as you get the work done
Good tech orgs list expectations for each role, and every senior role requires you to be improving the impact of others’ work as well as your own. Clearly that applies to managers — it’s literally their job — but many top IC roles pay the big bucks because you come up with projects and promote them under your own steam.
If you can do that all remotely, good for you. A lot of us cannot and we need people to be in the office N days a week for there to be some kind of personal overlap, where we can go from good to great, together.
If you make p30 salary writing unit tests for a 250,000 employee printer company then staying at home 100% of the time sounds like bliss. If you’re expected to be levelling up every six months at a series A with 30 engineers and you don’t want to come back into work post COVID… well the printer company is hiring!
The author talks about technology but everyone having laptops (versus desktop PCs) makes this worse, not better.