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Re: Remote Only

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Post by TeMPOraL »

UlisesAC4 wrote: post #120
Shank wrote: post #105

My biggest problem is this: While there is a surplus of remote only positions, this surplus always wants the same thing: very senior developers with tons of wide experience sets. Seems like there's a lot of talent being left on the floor by only looking for senior developers. There's a lot of goodwill that can be earned by trusting in potential and helping candidates grow into a position. Even an experienced develope…

That is something bad at our industry. Managers or whoever do that decision believes that being senior automagically makes you a genious, when it can be the other way around, the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are. I doubt that senior could easily change to remote lifestyle after years of onsite. People must learn that anyone can be remote, the thing is that everyone must agree to communicate bett…

> the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are. I doubt that senior could easily change to remote lifestyle after years of onsite.

Why not? Going from on-site to remote is strictly easier, as the only thing it needs is to stop leaving home every morning.

I don't get this "the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are" - the only thing I've seen is older people having higher expectations and less tolerance for abuse and working for pie-in-the-sky promises of future wealth. But maybe my bias is showing, I'm nearing 30, so pretty old by software industry standards.

Re: Remote Only

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Post by billysielu »

warcher wrote: post #11

Yo, you gotta tell me when you’re working. You must. You’re on a team that is depending on you and somebody has to know where the fuck your are and when you’re going to fix whatever is broken today. “Where’s will?” “I don’t know, our manifesto says nobody gets to know when he’s working.” “Well he broke the site.” “That’s his right as a sovereign citizen.” The end.

Pick up the telephone and ask him.

Re: Remote Only

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Post by jaggederest »

toomanybeersies wrote: post #139
jaggederest wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it fair to subsidize people to live in high cost of living locations?

Because otherwise, after COL, you might only save $10k per year in a developed country, and $30k per year in a developing country. That would be just as lopsided and unfair to your remote workers as paying them all market rate, so that your employees in developed countries get paid $80k per year and your employees in India get paid $8k per year. Or do you expect your developers in America to relocate to India?

Why not subsidize everyone's lifestyle so they all save the same amount of money, regardless of spending?

Would you pay more money for the exact same product made in a different city? How is hiring developers different?

Re: Remote Only

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Post by billysielu »

JamyDev wrote: post #62

Didn't see anyone top level mention it, but: Disadvantages -> Timezones Timezones make scheduling team meetings hard, and if your organization ever becomes big enough to warrant a physical office people far away will start working late hours to keep up with the main office. YMMV, but it's 3 AM here in Berlin and until 10 minutes ago I was still actively working.

Not having meetings sounds like a benefit to me.

Re: Remote Only

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Post by wodenokoto »

hartator wrote: post #6

> Disadvantages > Scares investors - Scares some partners - Scares some customers - Scares some potential employees, mostly senior non-technical hires - Onboarding is harder, first month feels lonely We do a full remote policy at SerpApi.com, however I found this disadvantages list a bit dishonest, they are more way numerous and important, the most obvious are missing real human contacts (and it doesn't get easier wi…

I think the HN population is strongly skewed towards people who prefer to sit alone and work.

I just changed job from an open office to remote work, and while everybody thought my new job sounded like a great opportunity, no one was jealous of the remote part - "So, now you have rent a shared office, huh?" (and yes, that is what I did)

Re: Remote Only

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Post by jaaron »

The "remote only" movement would do itself a huge favor if:

1) Advocates didn't dismiss the real disadvantages as merely things other people are "scared of"

2) A recognition that optimizing personal productivity doesn't always mean success for a team, product or business

Re: Remote Only

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Post by megaman22 »

jaaron wrote: post #167

The "remote only" movement would do itself a huge favor if: 1) Advocates didn't dismiss the real disadvantages as merely things other people are "scared of" 2) A recognition that optimizing personal productivity doesn't always mean success for a team, product or business

1) Is entirely the introvert/extrovert divide, that extrovert management and busybodies decry

Re: Remote Only

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Post by pimmen »

As far as I understand it, Lightbend (the maintainers of Scala and Akka) is also a remote only workplace with developers working around the world.
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