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Makes me wonder how 'async first' companies operate (I think gitlab is like that)

• sgarland 2y ago
  Zapier is/was (I’ve not been there for a bit over a year) more or less async first. We still had meetings, but they weren’t supposed to be the default. Basically for status updates, you’d just put it in Slack. We had a bot that prompted us. We did have a weekly meeting, but it was at a reasonable time for everyone. A team I was on while there had some APAC people, and we even managed to have meetings with them, by scheduling them in afternoon hours for the U.S. Worked out pretty well.
• jonasdegendt 2y ago
  I'm in an async company and team, we practice scrum too. Half the team in the US, half in Europe. First of all, the standup isn't daily, it's twice a week. People still miss it for reasons (kids, doctors appointments, ...), and it's just... accepted. There's a general culture of trust. Other than that, Slack threads go on twice as verbose and long as in other places I've worked. There's a general deluge of pull requests going around certain times of the day and they're always reviewed within an acceptable time frame. In between delivering PR's you simply pick up other work, we're all seniors that know how to work independently, I'm not sure if you could achieve the same thing with a bunch of juniors mixed in unless they have the right attitude as well.