Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work

Re:Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote ... by MattGaiser on Sunday August 01, 2021 @11:03AM (#28026743)

I started a job remotely. A lot of the problems with remote onboarding to me were because of broken things that conversations could quickly fix, making fixing it properly too onerous.

For example, when I was setting up my local environment I needed a token. What token? Not specified. So I had to ask someone else and wait for a reply. It turns out I could have gotten the token myself.

In a prior job, I needed at least 10 instructions from senior developers on setting up my local environment as the readme was very out of date. It caused a lot of problems for the next guy coming on board.

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Re:Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote ... by bradleyjg on Sunday August 01, 2021 @11:12AM (#28026834)

That’s the kind of thing that can and should be fixed by every person that gets onboarded updating the onboarding docs.

The thing I find more problematic with remote onboarding followed by remote work is that there’s no relationship building. There needs to be some play in the joints for a team to work. Getting to know teammates as real people, and not just an image on a screen and some IM messages, makes it more likely you will give them the benefit of the doubt.

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