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0 pointsjollofricepeas3y ago0 comments

Or…

Just have optional office hours, Slack huddles and mob sessions every few days.

Some of my engineers…

- have a open huddle for a few hours a day where anyone can drop into their project while they work

- others make use of our scheduled themed mob sessions (ie. Maintenance Mondays, deployment Thursdays). have a problem, idea or just want to hangout then come by?

- ICs & seniors are required to host at least a weekly office hour to assist juniors or teach something of their choice.

The default doesn’t always have to be return to office for a physical meet.

There’s lots of other options.

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rcme3y ago· 6 in thread

> - ICs & seniors are required to host at least a weekly office hour to assist juniors or teach something of their choice.

When I was a junior engineer working in-person, I was learning from senior engineers multiple times a day, not just once a week.

clnq3y ago

There are remote-first companies that have 24/7 channels for anyone to ask questions and discuss things with seniors. There are office-first companies with poor training culture. Commitment to training is the deciding factor.

rcme3y ago

Only part of my learning was from direct question answering. Seeing how senior people worked also helped a lot. E.g. over hearing a design discussion or seeing how they debugged outages was very helpful to me. Those things are very hard to recreate remotely.

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jollofricepeasOP3y ago

Obviously, it’s a balance.

Because at the same time, ICs working on critical projects shouldn’t be forced to stop every 15 minutes to answer “It’s not working” questions.

rcme3y ago

That seems more like a hiring issue

redeeman3y ago

and now you may learn from them multiple times a day, not in person, but over the internet

hedora3y ago

And also from people in multiple geographic regions!

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kkfx3y ago

Hm, remote work does not also means asynchronous work. Something can be asynchronous, something can't. In that case it's just a matter of agree some timeframes like normal office hours where anyone can easily join anyone else because anyone should be there like in the office.

It's a matter of discipline not much of physical presence.

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