Bluepacsky

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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
Currently I am on E2 as employee in the US. Can I change companies by applying and they sponsor a new type of visa?
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
That is exactly my feeling! Yet I find most organizations do not implement async cultures and/or tools to run those processes. I feel that too often people do not want to do any upfront work to prepare an async discussion and rather ex
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
All these points are very true. But let's say you are in a large international organization, competing audiences etc. How you handle political concerns when someone schedule an unnecessary meeting? Can you just tell them straight-ahead
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
The idea about check-in is awesome! Someone mentioned it further down but "dead audience" is a problem, people often start to code or do other things during meetings. This is only gotten worse during the pandemic. So this feels li
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
That is true. I think many engineers would feel less empowered if approval for meetings was needed. I think that is not feasible.
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
The point about meetings just being forgotten is a good point! I think that happens too often to me as well. I will try to do this in the future! It seems like that would be a good standard to follow for everyone.
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
I really appreciate the second point and the mentioned ideas! That is great advise. I think having everybody write status updates in advance can be a great idea but how do you make sure that does not turn out to be more work than just shari
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
Your third point, setting an "end goal" is a great point! I have not thought about that often enough. I usually set agendas for my meetings but too often I do not define the ideal "final state" I would like to see from a
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
1) is a great advise that I think I can make use of, same for 2). For 5) I feel it is hard. Often there are expectations that you join meetings just in case a higher-up manager needs a piece of information or I am afraid to loose out on cri
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by Bluepacsky 5y ago
I like the general idea of having less meetings. I try to cut time down for meetings I am responsible for. However, there are ~10 hours of meetings each week that I need to join either because: 1. There is an expectation by management that
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83 points by Bluepacsky 5y ago|72 comments