Why are companies so hellbent on asking their workers to waste hours in commute? WFH hurts people with “soft” skills the most. MBA types.
If MBAs have any skills at all, they seem hell-bent on convincing the rest of the world otherwise.
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
#122I 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…
My company has been working remotely a long time, in that all meetings are Zooms and 99% include people who are far away, but management is increasingly insistent that we join those from the office.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#123I 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.
One thing I’ve heard repeatedly: remote work is not just in person but with teleconferencing and more chat. It has to be managed differently. The organization has to change how teams are organized and operated.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#124I 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.
> IME some companies just aren't able to pull off remote without major productivity loss.
What happened during the years of COVID? Was it fine? So could they really not do it? It's more a don't want to rather than can't.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#125I 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…
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Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#126Ok, 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 have brought up a dozen or so freshies over the last thre years, with mixed results. My approach has changed since the beginning. Initially I would spend a lot of time; casual chats 1-1 and with teams to establish personal bonds, long sessions going over documents, the domain, active support and coaching over progressively harder tasks. This was not successful at all. Now, I just drop them off a cliff. Within the f…
Thanks a lot for this. I'll definitely try to imitate this for my next intern.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#127WFH is a great way to find companies you want to work for. Companies that don’t allow WFH are almost guaranteed to be toxic and dysfunctional. Good developers have choices. Non-WFH companies miss out.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#128Enjoy 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…
Nope. People have made that claim for 20+ years and it never happened. It turns out that the kind of people you can hire cheap are so bad that you have to hire really expensive experienced developers to manage them. And it still takes forever to get anything done.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think its the unknown. Are big corporations with lots of WFH employees successful in the long term? The reality is no one really knows so its a risk. Maybe it'll turn out fine, maybe it'll increase productivity, maybe the company will slowly die as the culture crumbles. There is a lot of arguments going on but realistically no one has ever tried it.
There are plenty of companies who have tried it, and succeeded
Name one. I mean a real corporate with >10k employees.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#130Ok, 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…
Thank god someone feels the same. No one cares when I put this argument forward against remote work especially for me as a junior/beginner dev
I've got 13 years of experience, and I really worry about new people starting remotely today.
I'm not saying I would have failed completely if I started out in a fully remote environment, but I am very confident that I would not have leaned nearly as fast or as much or as deeply. I bet I would be multiple years behind in my career at least.
I get that some companies or teams or individuals seem to think they have figured this out (seeing some responses here). I hope some among them are writing books (or detailed blog series) specifically on this topic.