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Unsuprisingly less experienced coders benefit from exposure to more experienced coders. Interesting questions raised by this, for myself at least, * how do hy

by defrost 11mo ago

Unsuprisingly less experienced coders benefit from exposure to more experienced coders. Interesting questions raised by this, for myself at least, * how do hybrid schemes work out: some home, some office, less commute overall? A HN submission yesterday on Australian studies showed remote work being mostly loved in AU, having little productivity impact either way for many, having significant benefits for for people with spectrum / social issues. * has any tried junior coder meetups with experienced coders "out of office"? Co working at one home or another, at public libraries, etc.

jimbob45 11mo ago
Hybrid vs in-person is a meaningless debate. Once you’re hybrid, you’ve restricted your candidate pool to an hour’s drive radius around the office. The damage has been done at that point.
- defrost 11mo ago
  Depends where you live - Australia has a lot of FiFo work, Fly In Fly Out on minesites and for various kinds of office work. There's certainly people I know that live several hundred km away from a capital city, work remote, and come in for two or three days to catch up with everbody once a fortnight, once a month, etc. It helps to have a wider PoV perhaps.
  - AlotOfReading 11mo ago
    Virtually all the "hybrid" companies I've seen have 2/3 day in-office, 3/2 day remote schedules for office work. That doesn't necessarily apply to say, the employees working loading docks and shipping, but a couple days a month feels different enough to justify its own term.
  - red-iron-pine 11mo ago
    1) that's mostly mining, or oil & gas, or the like and usually needs bodies on site. NOC folks and developers aren't flying to Outer Nowhere to type C# in a poorly air conditioned sea-can. 2) FIFO is rarely 2 days in office 3 at home, it's 2 weeks on site and 1 week off -- or similar. Many day stretches. "once a month, etc." is far more common. 3) FIFO to major cities like Perth is more workable simply because the airport and infrastructure are there. It's a shorter flight to somewhere like Carnarvon, West Australia, but they literally don't have the aiport size or housing capacity.
markus_zhang 11mo ago
>how do hybrid schemes work out: some home, some office, less commute overall? I think it depends on the type of work. I work as a support engineer for business stakeholders. Business stakeholders don't work in "Sprints", and always want to get anything ASAP. In that sense, if I want to maximize my value to the company, in-office is the best. But frankly, I don't like that, so working remote is the best for me, IN THAT PERSPECTIVE. However, I do love the snacks in office, and I want to keep my job, so hybrid works the best for me. The stakeholders get to bug me from time to time in 3 days per week, and I book as many meetings as I can in those 3 days, and bring a non-fiction just to breath a little better. I just wish Toronto has cheaper housing though, so I can live closer to the office.

by defrost 11mo ago

jimbob45 11mo ago

Hybrid vs in-person is a meaningless debate. Once you’re hybrid, you’ve restricted your candidate pool to an hour’s drive radius around the office. The damage has been done at that point.

defrost 11mo ago
Depends where you live - Australia has a lot of FiFo work, Fly In Fly Out on minesites and for various kinds of office work. There's certainly people I know that live several hundred km away from a capital city, work remote, and come in for two or three days to catch up with everbody once a fortnight, once a month, etc. It helps to have a wider PoV perhaps.
- AlotOfReading 11mo ago
  Virtually all the "hybrid" companies I've seen have 2/3 day in-office, 3/2 day remote schedules for office work. That doesn't necessarily apply to say, the employees working loading docks and shipping, but a couple days a month feels different enough to justify its own term.
- red-iron-pine 11mo ago
  1) that's mostly mining, or oil & gas, or the like and usually needs bodies on site. NOC folks and developers aren't flying to Outer Nowhere to type C# in a poorly air conditioned sea-can. 2) FIFO is rarely 2 days in office 3 at home, it's 2 weeks on site and 1 week off -- or similar. Many day stretches. "once a month, etc." is far more common. 3) FIFO to major cities like Perth is more workable simply because the airport and infrastructure are there. It's a shorter flight to somewhere like Carnarvon, West Australia, but they literally don't have the aiport size or housing capacity.

markus_zhang 11mo ago

>how do hybrid schemes work out: some home, some office, less commute overall? I think it depends on the type of work. I work as a support engineer for business stakeholders. Business stakeholders don't work in "Sprints", and always want to get anything ASAP. In that sense, if I want to maximize my value to the company, in-office is the best. But frankly, I don't like that, so working remote is the best for me, IN THAT PERSPECTIVE. However, I do love the snacks in office, and I want to keep my job, so hybrid works the best for me. The stakeholders get to bug me from time to time in 3 days per week, and I book as many meetings as I can in those 3 days, and bring a non-fiction just to breath a little better. I just wish Toronto has cheaper housing though, so I can live closer to the office.