Ask HN: How do you integrate remote developers?

Post by emilburzo » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 9:07 AM UTC

jmarucci wrote: post #51

We have a 40% remote staff at DigitalOcean. So this is really important to us. Initially, they come to the office for 1-2 weeks when they first start to get face to face introductions with everyone on their team and as much of the company as possible. Part of our standard onboarding is for each manager to take them out to lunch and to host a team event while they are in town. This is social time to get to know them o…

Post by scottyab » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

alistairSH wrote: post #28

My team (I'm the project manager/tech lead) is roughly half remote, with the remotes including my product owner and lead test engineer (among others). As noted elsewhere, thinking remote-first is required for non-co-located teams to be successful. Technical items, in no particular order: All meetings are conducted with full video teleconferencing. Most meetings are configured to default participants as muted (help st…