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spinning up a subsidiary in another country (especially one with very strict labor laws, like in european countries) is not as easy as "find some guy on the int
by inconceivable 4y ago
spinning up a subsidiary in another country (especially one with very strict labor laws, like in european countries) is not as easy as "find some guy on the internet and pay him to watch your dashboard. and then give him root so he can actually fix stuff without calling your domestic team, which would defeat the whole purpose.
also, even getting paged ONCE a month at 3am will fuck up an entire week at a time if you have a family. if it happens twice a month, that person is going to quit unless they're young and need the experience.
- chatmasta 4y agoIt's really not that difficult, and there are providers like Deel who can manage it all for you, to the point you just ACH them every month. Source: co-founder of a remote startup with employees in five countries
- inconceivable 4y agolike you said, timezones are a thing. now you're managing a global team.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoThat sounds harder than it is, especially if you already allow remote work. It mostly just forces you to have better docs.
- mnahkies 4y agoSorry to be clear I was replying to this part of your comment > the vast majority of computer systems just simply aren't as important as hospitals or nuclear power plants. I agree that the stakes are lower in terms of harm, but was trying to express that whilst it might not be life and death, it might be hindering someone being able to do their job / use your product - eg: it still impacts customer experience and your (business) reputation. False pages for transient errors are bad - ideally you only get paged if human intervention is required, and this should form a feedback cycle to determine how to avoid it in future. If all the pages are genuine problems requiring human action then this should feed into tickets to improve things