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Has anyone here had good luck with junior engineers working remotely? (I'm sure companies like Zapier have solved this). I've found that with senior engineers (defined not by the job title but the ability to take a coarsely defined problem like "figure out what is causing the I/O performance issues on this service and fix it") it's very easy to have them remote. Junior engineers with a senior engineer leading/managin…
Has anyone here had good luck with junior engineers working remotely? (I'm sure companies like Zapier have solved this). I've found that with senior engineers (defined not by the job title but the ability to take a coarsely defined problem like "figure out what is causing the I/O performance issues on this service and fix it") it's very easy to have them remote. Junior engineers with a senior engineer leading/managin…
Many software companies lack formal training programs and documentation processes that juniors need to grow. They come to depend on informal training/documentation like tapping a senior on the shoulder to ask about a legacy piece of code. The solution is to invest heavily in regimented training programs with clear KPIs (key performance indicators), better documentation, and a certain level of redundancy so that remot…
Working 100% remote (software dev) for about a year and a half. 15 years in various offices before that. I can’t imagine having to get up extra early, get ready, drive across town, park, walk into the office, settle into my open office air space, finally get working...then reverse the process at the end of the day. A recruiter cold called me recently on a local full time dev position at a big bank. He asked “...how d…
I wake up, put on pants and a shirt, walk over to my office, and just dive right in. I'm not historically a person that does that. I waffle about and waste a tremendous amount of time. But now it just sets the tone for my whole day as productive. By the time I'm eating breakfast or dealing with another person, I've knocked out a few hours of work. It's just a really good position to be approaching the day from, like no matter whatever happens to it now it at least wasn't a waste.
Turns out my problem isn't so much that I'm just generally not that productive so much as once I start faffing about I struggle to stop.