Re:I hope work from home continues
by npsimons on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:57PM
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> Engineering culture should be disseminated via documents rather than oral lore.
A million times this! If there's anything that WFH has done, it's exposed the big gaping hole known as "institutional knowledge."
> Increased difficulty for juniors to ramp up when you are remote is a symptom of a culture with lots of overly complicated processes that are not well documented.
Or no process at all. Even on small teams, even on projects I start from scratch by myself, I GD document things. It's not that hard once you start practicing and make it a habit.
I swear, if a programmer had zero comments in their code and said "just come by the water cooler if you have any questions", they'd be fired within a week, yet we put up with this ephemeral bullshit for other things.
A million times this! If there's anything that WFH has done, it's exposed the big gaping hole known as "institutional knowledge."
> Increased difficulty for juniors to ramp up when you are remote is a symptom of a culture with lots of overly complicated processes that are not well documented.
Or no process at all. Even on small teams, even on projects I start from scratch by myself, I GD document things. It's not that hard once you start practicing and make it a habit.
I swear, if a programmer had zero comments in their code and said "just come by the water cooler if you have any questions", they'd be fired within a week, yet we put up with this ephemeral bullshit for other things.