GitLab’s Secret to Managing Employees in 160 Locations: Write Everything Down

Re:GitLab’s Secret to Managing Employees in 160 Locations: W... by purerandomness on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:39PM (#13611251)

You seem to work at a horrible place, with abrasive characters.

It begins with the fact that the company's code needs documentation. I'm a big proponent of Robert C. Martin's "Clean Code" and the idea that code should read like prose - by reading the code, its purpose and ideas should come across naturally.

It ends with people asking "Didn't we already talk about this?".

Is this your first job? Don't let yourself get treated like this.

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Re:GitLab’s Secret to Managing Employees in 160 Locations: W... by csours on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:23PM (#13613205)

> You seem to work at a horrible place, with abrasive characters.

Or a normal place with poor-mediocre leadership.

Documentation doesn't happen by magic, and documentation is a skill. If it's not a priority from management, folks will be heads down getting their own tasks done, not thinking about what the other person/team needs.

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