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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by steve1977 on Friday June 09, 2023 @08:37AM (#36256954)
> in my experience successful large products are built by people who are willing to invest as much effort in coordination as they do in heads-down coding.

In my experience, successful large products make so much money that it's possible for non-productive people to exist in large enterprises. This wouldn't be the case on smaller case. But that does mean that those people are actually needed in any way.

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by asoneth on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:26AM (#36257497)
> But that does mean that those people are actually needed in any way.

True, the presence of people who spend time coordinating is not sufficient for success, nor is their presence in any way evidence of success.

But the absence of people who devote time to coordination has definitely sunk projects I've been on, including ones stacked with brilliant rockstars. It may simply be correlation, but I have never worked on a large, successful project that lacked people who were willing to invest significant effort in coordination.

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