Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
by time_to_smile on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:12AM
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Strong agree on the remote training being entirely possible. My first dev job was remote (long before the pandemic) and onboarding was not a problem at all.
In fact because you need people to get set up remotely, I find the documentation tends to be better at all remote companies. In-Office companies sort of assume that you can just tap someone on the shoulder if you get stuck so there's more often, in my experience, gaps in the documentation.
I particularly find this a strange claim since open source projects have been successfully onboarding new people remotely prior to there even being efficient ways to screen share/video chat etc.
>You also lose an unbelievable amount for anyone who lacks experience - training is AWFUL remote. Not even close.
I've joined company that wasn't remote-native and yet they were well prepared
They had training videos, documentation, presentations and introductory codebase walk - a lot of stuff
I've been really quickly productive.
So maybe training is as good as your effort put into that?
>You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question
I can send message to someone over chat way faster than you can get to his office room / desk.