Is fine with remote work does not really matter as long as they consider productivity as a criteria to evaluate the performance, which in general remote work will suffer. Also I have long wfh even before pandemic, the only employees that work remotely productively are those who work even harder at home than in the office. So essentially if you expect WfH making your life easier while being evaluated at the same level with others, you are probably wrong.
Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
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#102Ok, 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…
When COVID started we hired a few people from college. It was a bit harder but not significantly so. They simply stayed active on chat and video calls, otherwise their biggest problem was the lack of a good spot in their place for WFH.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#103Ok, 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…
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.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#104Ok, 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 haven't got the sense that industry does a whole lot of training. Generally speaking they want you to do that on your own time at your own cost. Sure I've seen places that had interns but they were mostly used as cheap labor as opposed to a desire to train anyone.
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#105Is fine with remote work does not really matter as long as they consider productivity as a criteria to evaluate the performance, which in general remote work will suffer. Also I have long wfh even before pandemic, the only employees that work remotely productively are those who work even harder at home than in the office. So essentially if you expect WfH making your life easier while being evaluated at the same level…
>Is fine with remote work does not really matter as long as they consider productivity as a criteria to evaluate the performance, which in general remote work will suffer. Also I have long wfh even before pandemic, the only employees that work remotely productively are those who work even harder at home than in the office.
data/citation needed
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Ok, I'll bite the bullet: how do you train interns and/or junior employees in a fully remote environment? What about interns/juniors needing training can't be solved "asynchronously" via Slack/Teams/Zoom/email/video call + screenshare?
In my first programming job I learnt Vim , simply because I saw other people doing it and thought it looked cool. I feel doing the same remotely would be tricky. Even if I learnt of it, how would I ever quit Vim and switch back to Slack?
Couldn't you see this just the same when screen-sharing over Zoom?
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I am perfectly fine with that, what are you trying to say with this?
Do you want to compete with people who are just as smart or smarter than you, probably speak multiple languages, and are willing to work for 5-10% of what you get paid? pretty sure that is what the OP is trying to say. Some will thrive, many will not.
Modern paradox : Companies want global markets for products but no global markets for employment. What a tragedy!!
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> 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.
What is Nvidia's gold mine? They don't make their own chips, right? Doesn't that mean that other companies can quickly catch up, if they are even behind?
Take a peek at CUDA
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The biggest cost savings from remote work comes from lower talent cost (read: 20-50% lower salaries) because instead of hiring exclusively in a few cities, you can now stop hiring in expensive cities and hire everywhere else.
Wait till they realize there are high-quality devs in SE Asia, South America and India. That remote job can be done by anyone, anywhere. Literally. Some industries may have regulatory protection, but I don’t think it’ll be long before others start mass-outsourcing the kinds of jobs people thought were safe.
Offshoring is nothing new, it's been happening for at least a decade in earnest, of course far more for manufacturing. Even if you just count since the start of the pandemic, companies have now had 3.5 years to figure this out. Where is the mass-outsourcing?
Re: Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work
#110Ok, 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…
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this.
It makes a lot of sense to me, and resonates with the experience I've had both as a noob to programming (or to a new role) and as a person responsible for onboarding.
A controlled trial by fire with asking for help if stuck encouraged.