Re:Ask HN: My son declined intern offer because it's remote ...
by ipaddr on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:30PM
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If the seniors are home who is the junior interacting with. If the reason seniors are denied work from home because of juniors they may not be so willing to train on top of their core responsibilities
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Re:Ask HN: My son declined intern offer because it's remote ...
by screye on Friday October 28, 2022 @12:36PM
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That's the conundrum. The incentives for junior and senior engineers are not aligned.
My intuition is that you need some seniors to be co-located. These are the people who focus on direct mentorship and eventually graduate to people management.
The 10x engineer IC can be remote, as long as they keep some time slots open for indirect mentorship (PR reviews, documentation, SOPs). They'll graduate into lead IC roles.
Upper leadership is mostly brainstorming, in meetings and control their own schedule, so they can probably manage a hybrid few-days-a-week in the office kind of schedule.