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Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by somsak2 »

sandworm101 wrote: post #43
dwnvotee wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outsourcing to Indian companies like HCL was a thing way before covid and remote work. Results were varied. I never felt threatened as a remote employee

Everyone looks to india, but that isnt the only cheaper labor market. If you work a tech job in the bay area, the most threatening labor market isnt india or china, but west virginia and alabama. The most direct threat isn't the overseas person willing to work for 10% of your wage, but your drop-in replacement willing to work for 80% of your wage because they are paying 50% less in rent.

Do you know anyone from these states? I know a bunch of folks and your characterization is inaccurate -- the talent that you have accessible from non-"premium" US markets is generally also not as good as what you'd find in NYC or the Bay Area. The set of people you're describing are those from these states that are both competent enough to work at a FAANG but also unwilling to move to an existing city that FAANG hires in. What I've found is that population in general is not that big -- people that have the ambition and grind to get into a top software shop in general are also willing to relocate for it.

Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by helij »

ravenstine wrote: post #34
sandworm101 wrote: post #31

Enjoy the remote work now. It is a bubble. Any job that can be worked 100% remotely can equally be 100% outsourced to a cheaper labor market. Those who had normal jobs pre-covid, and since are totally remote, ride a wave of higher wages. That wave will crash the day employers realize they can find cheaper talent online. If you work remotely then you have to be competative at an international level. Maybe you really a…

> Any job that can be worked 100% remotely can equally be 100% outsourced to a cheaper labor market. People have been saying that since time immemorial, way before the current remote work era. Heck, I remember that being said about programming jobs when I was in high school 18+ years ago. I'm still waiting for my job to be replaced by Indians.

I've been hearing it since 1995. Still didn't happen in a way all these fear mongers describe it.

Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by passion__desire »

credit_guy wrote: post #21
hmmmcurious1 wrote: post #5

Remote vs office is just smoke and mirrors. A company with a good product will thrive no matter the policy. Making a big deal of returning your cattle to the farm is just to soothe investors when you have a subpar product

> A company with a good product will thrive no matter the policy A different way to say it is "If you found a gold mine, you can afford to do things others can't". 99% of companies don't sit on gold mines like Nvidia.

Remember how Marissa Mayer in her bid to rescue Yahoo made everyone come to office. Even to relocate entire teams to US.

Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by Spastche »

bicx wrote: post #103
endur wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure about intern, but I've onboarded a lot of new people and I love it. I just take 1-3 hours a day and have them share their screen and work on their task. Once they're comfortable, the sessions turn from a pairing session to a planning session that doesn't last as long, and with a few 10 minute checkins. Eventually the person ramps up. You just need management to carve out time for this so you aren't overloade…

Yes, and it’s honestly more comfortable to share screens over Zoom than it is to try squeezing next to them at their desk in an office.

or using their disgusting equipment. I would absolutely refuse to use some coworkers keyboards or mice...

Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by Shaanie »

ejb999 wrote: post #40
ravenstine wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Any job that can be worked 100% remotely can equally be 100% outsourced to a cheaper labor market. People have been saying that since time immemorial, way before the current remote work era. Heck, I remember that being said about programming jobs when I was in high school 18+ years ago. I'm still waiting for my job to be replaced by Indians.

being early is not the same as being wrong though.

That's the nice thing about unfalsifiable statements, you're never wrong.

Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by WanderPanda »

datavirtue wrote: post #85
WanderPanda wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It‘s like unions squeezing out more than market rates, it eventually renders the companies uncompetitive

Then companies should lobby to make unions required.

If there was any entity that had enough power to enforce this worldwide I‘m sure companies would jump at and lobby like crazy. We are blessed that no such (Orwellian) entity exists (yet)

Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by sneed_chucker »

hipparchus wrote: post #49

Ok, I'll bite the bullet: how do you train interns and/or junior employees in a fully remote environment? I only have two years of experience so I'm still super new, but it's something I'm confronted with this, and I just don't know how to train people in a fully remote environment. It's from little things to catching an intern who doesn't know a couple extremely handy shortcuts with tools that they are still learnin…

I trained all my new team members remotely by:

1. Checking in on them often to make sure they weren't blocked.

2. Screensharing or pair programming (one on one) to teach them necessary skills.

3. Making it 100% clear that they could reach out to me or another senior team member at any time for help - if we're too busy we'll just respond later.

Works quite well as long as your senior engineers aren't overworked and can actually dedicate some time to bringing juniors up to speed.

Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by HDThoreaun »

kbos87 wrote: post #22

I work for a large tech company that gives me complete optionality around where I work. What was largely an in-person culture has turned into one that is almost entirely remote and geographically distributed. For us, "remote work" isn't even a topic of conversation anymore, it's just the way things are. Yes there are some types of collaboration that aren't quite the same or require a little more effort, but we've lar…

IME some companies just aren't able to pull off remote without major productivity loss. The culture just isn't set up for it. I don't think it's impossible to "fix" these companies, but it is quite difficult and would probably require replacing the entire leadership team. Many boards are understandably opposed to that and go with "let's just go back to how things were" instead.

Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work

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Post by HDThoreaun »

benreesman wrote: post #23
lvl102 wrote: post #8

Why are companies so hellbent on asking their workers to waste hours in commute? WFH hurts people with “soft” skills the most. MBA types.

In a law firm, the most senior partner is a lawyer (and usually bills out among the highest). In a hospital, the head of surgery is a surgeon (and usually one of the best). In a fabrication shop, the boss is a pro with the materials. Software is, AFAIK, the only wildly demanding field where senior leaders who can’t even remotely do the thing is considered normal.

The leaders of hospitals almost always have MBA's, not MDs. Every medical department answers to the business analysts.
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