How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important

Re:How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important by pwaring on Friday August 19, 2011 @06:14AM (#2902859)

"We bleed friendship and work together, so it’s hard to tell when we’re discussing work and when we’re chatting over beers"

Isn't that potentially a bad idea from a work/life balance point of view? I like to know at the end of the week that I'm free to do my own thing - feeling compelled to go out drinking with co-workers and talking about work-related subjects would stop me relaxing, and would be bad for my productivity in the long run.

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Re:How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important by JonLim on Friday August 19, 2011 @10:33AM (#2903472)

If they're anything like the web dev shop I work in, absolutely not. We're free to grab drinks after work and we're free to go home, there's never any pressure to join.

I assume GitHub is all that and a bag of cookies - you can join and chat and build relationships with people, but under no circumstances is a gun held to your head.

Chances are, if you work there and you enjoy the environment, you'd WANT to go out for drinks with them!

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