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Inside GitHub's Super-Lean Management Strategy (2013)
- brycethornton 11y agoThis is from almost two years ago. This tweet from Zach Holman leads me to believe that things have changed: https://twitter.com/holman/status/592757813107101697 https://twitter.com/holman/status/592757813107101697
- technoweenie 11y agoCorrect. Though I wouldn't say the company is any less remote friendly than it used to be.
- Poiesis 11y agoI personally don't find it off putting, but I bet the frequent references to "beer-thirty" and "drink-ups" could be offputting to a fair amount of people.
- pc86 11y agoIt's not that I would find it off putting, I quite enjoy happy hours and having optional social interaction with coworkers outside of work. It's just that they're such tired, cliche phrases.
- Oompa 11y ago"beer-thirty" is now "The Show" and "drink-ups" are now called "Meetups". This article is rather old.
- feedjoelpie 11y agoMuch of this is no longer true because, as I understand it, it didn't really scale.
- amirmc 11y agoThis was written about 5-6 months before the sexual harassment claims, lawsuit, investigation, and the later departure of one of the cofounders. My take on this is that lack of 'management' might seem like fun but there's a reason most grown-up companies have more process. http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2014/04/21/github-founder-resigns-after-investigation/?referrer= http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2014/04/21/github-found...