Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by Ididntdothis on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:17AM
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I am sure there are legal reasons but if I had to set up a remote company I would probably try to restrict the timezones. My current company has dev teams in South America and India. They are all good people but dealing with India [13 hours) is a big pain because somebody has to make calls during his personal time instead of work time. It’s a real burden. And in my view you absolutely have to make direct calls from time to time. You can’t resolve all issues with asynchronous communication.
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Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by lugged on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:39AM
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> You can’t resolve all issues with asynchronous communication.
Name one?
Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by Ididntdothis on Sunday May 31, 2020 @09:30AM
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An example is custom hardware not working as expected. To debug this you may need five different people on the line at the same time. If you do this in an async manner it will take days or weeks to resolve.
Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by lugged on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:25AM
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But can be resolved...
Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by Ryckes on Sunday May 31, 2020 @09:13AM
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Pair programming!
Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by lugged on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:27AM
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This is the only one that actually is valid. Good point!
Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by sokoloff on Sunday May 31, 2020 @09:00AM
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1:1 career conversations
Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by lugged on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:27AM
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You can't have these in slack async? (because I have)
Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by sokoloff on Monday June 01, 2020 @03:32PM
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I don't believe you can have that conversation effectively if each person gets to send one message per day due to timezone-induced lack of workday overlap.
Day 1 M> So, what do you think your next career move would be?
Day 2 E> I don't know. I really enjoy software engineering, but I think I'm ready to take on some kind of leadership role.
Day 2 M> OK, that's great. Do you need any kind of support before taking that on?
Day 3 E> I'm not sure what you mean.
Day 3 M> ...
Re:Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
by coopsmgoops on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:24PM
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It can work if you're not in a rush. If you need to wait overnight to get help with something that slows you down.