Home Alone: How working for a fully remote company actually works
summary
Particular Software runs a fully distributed engineering org with no office and no managers, about 42 people across 16 countries speaking 19 languages. Work lives in GitHub (138 repositories, ~2,400 open and ~16,000 closed issues), Slack and Zoom; priority is set by area-of-strategy squads and cross-functional task forces using RFCs, not direct bosses. Support is regional on-call, PTO enforces minimum vacation, and yearly in-person weeks reset alignment — the model is production-proven.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 2:22Particular Software
- 21:21#slack
- 31:46TASK FORCE
- 38:10Needs Taskforce
- 42:33KEEP THE CHANGE YOU FILTHY ANIMAL
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