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I like having company hardware. But agreed on the first premise. Open offices are an abomination. That being said, I do think younger engineers can be a bit bet

by codyb 3y ago

I like having company hardware. But agreed on the first premise. Open offices are an abomination. That being said, I do think younger engineers can be a bit better off from the human perspective joining an office just do to getting a lot of social interaction, and hanging out with higher level engineers. I learned a fair amount watching my engineer coworkers argue about bullshit that I'd probably not have gotten if I was remote. Being remote works for me (even when I was younger cause I love sitting and hammering my head on shit until I figure it out), but a fair number of my coworkers genuinely enjoy going into the office. It's interesting. But yes, agreed for the most part. Can't imagine wanting to go 5 days a week though lol.

autoexec 3y ago
> I learned a fair amount watching my engineer coworkers argue about bullshit that I'd probably not have gotten if I was remote. This I agree with. I've worked on small 4-6 person teams that had people from different backgrounds and at different skill levels and we all got along and worked really well together and a ton of knowledge was shared. It's very rare to find something like that, but when you do it's exciting and you start to get the feeling that together you could solve anything. Looking back though, almost all of the actual learning and camaraderie took place when we weren't working on actual work. Most of it was while we were showing off personal accomplishments or weird side projects or arguing about random things. Any time you get a bunch of friends together who share common interests you get that sort of thing. Very rarely do you get lucky enough to have that in a workplace though. Still, I think remote workers can still find like-minded people from diverse backgrounds themselves outside of the office to help them grow and develop without being forced to spend hours every single day with a group of people they aren't ever going to be friends with.

by codyb 3y ago

autoexec 3y ago

> I learned a fair amount watching my engineer coworkers argue about bullshit that I'd probably not have gotten if I was remote. This I agree with. I've worked on small 4-6 person teams that had people from different backgrounds and at different skill levels and we all got along and worked really well together and a ton of knowledge was shared. It's very rare to find something like that, but when you do it's exciting and you start to get the feeling that together you could solve anything. Looking back though, almost all of the actual learning and camaraderie took place when we weren't working on actual work. Most of it was while we were showing off personal accomplishments or weird side projects or arguing about random things. Any time you get a bunch of friends together who share common interests you get that sort of thing. Very rarely do you get lucky enough to have that in a workplace though. Still, I think remote workers can still find like-minded people from diverse backgrounds themselves outside of the office to help them grow and develop without being forced to spend hours every single day with a group of people they aren't ever going to be friends with.