I’m newly remote under coronavirus, AMA
summary
Rapid rollout of virtual interviewing across a company gets called out as already completed, and teams share concrete fixes: scheduled virtual coffee and five o'clock happy hour slots, using Zoom backgrounds, muting etiquette, and Slack office-hours for followups. Engineering KPIs shift from raw PR counts to onboarding signals like code‑review participation. Measurement and planning now explicitly add childcare and home constraints during estimation. A documented decision process—referred to as DRS—helps make remote technical tradeoffs visible and repeatable.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:00Life before coronavirus
- 6:12Working remotely
- 13:12Family time
- 14:17Asking for help
- 16:50Small things
- 22:40Measuring productivity
- 24:20What are you noticing
- 30:29Final thoughts
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