The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture

Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by mlazos on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:20PM (#33708235)

It works if you hire for people who are good at communicating and reward documentation writing in performance reviews

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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by seltzerboys on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:25PM (#33708299)

hiring is probably the main thing. giving some kind of documentation exercise to all prospective devs seems to alleviate concerns about communication

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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by tqi on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:30PM (#33708375)

Agree that hiring is sure important, but I think as long as hiring is competitive, and most candidates are bad at writing, then compromises are almost inevitable?

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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by layer8 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:12PM (#33708860)

If FAANGs started putting more weight on technical-writing skills in their hiring, we would get Leetwriting and technical-writing bootcamps. Meaning, it’s just an education issue to some extent, and there’s currently too little motivation to train writing as a skill.

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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by whatshisface on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:30PM (#33710147)

Leetcode doesn't raise people's IQs, it gives them practice effect on tech's favorite IQ test. So I don't think leetwriting would work for anything except getting practice effect on the new verbal IQ tests.

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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by aiisjustanif on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:47PM (#33723666)

We already struggle finding people good at everything else lol

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