Re:Why I will always prefer to work from home
by oHqgTQUT on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:34PM
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Something I have been struggling with as a remote software engineer is 1. getting reviews from coworkers and 2. being able to communicate asynchronously with coworkers, even those working on the same projects. I find some of my coworkers are quite good, but others much less so. Sometimes I've waited 48 hours to hear back on a DM, and in other cases 3-4 weeks before getting reviews on PRs. It feels like in a remote environment it's so much easier to ignore other people that you work with.
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Re:Why I will always prefer to work from home
by cebert on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:46PM
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> I've waited 48 hours to hear back on a DM, and in other cases 3-4 weeks before getting reviews on PRs.
This sounds like a performance management or team expectations management issue, not an issue with remote work.
Re:Why I will always prefer to work from home
by oHqgTQUT on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:50PM
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Perhaps. I ended up going to a coworking space with this person for a day as the latency doing it remotely was just too high.
Re:Why I will always prefer to work from home
by dukeyukey on Sunday November 19, 2023 @06:37PM
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And both those things are much less an issue if you can physically bother the person whose supposed to be doing them.
Like sure, we should be able to fix them. But if WFH creates extra friction that doesn't exist in-office, that's an extra resource drain that ought to be accounted for.