Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco

Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by kortilla on Friday October 02, 2020 @04:29AM (#24660386)

Unless the workers in the Philippines are willing to work US work hours, they aren’t the same. As someone who has managed teams in India, overnight delays in feedback can easily stretch weeklong epics across months. You just can’t rapidly iterate with timezone latency like that.

If your tasks are so well defined that a single feature request ticket can be fulfilled and satisfied on the first try, that’s cool but you’re likely not actually doing anything challenging and you’ve probably already outsourced to India.

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Re:Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Fr... by mantas on Friday October 02, 2020 @04:33AM (#24660409)

I did quite a bit of work little overlap. Me in Europe with clients in Japan or US west coast. Meetings on few overlapping hours and pretty much around-the-clock work was pretty good. Lots of time for deep work on both ends. If one side needs something, the other side can prepare it while former sleeps.

Maybe my clients and I got lucky because little hands-on management was required and specs were quite lax? But at least in some cases it works just fine.

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