Successfully Onboarding Remote Developers

https://andela.com/blog/3-steps-onboard-remote-developers/

by crufo • 10 years ago

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andor436• 10 years ago

Step 0: Don't call your employees "remote." You're either a distributed team, or you're not really trying.

up_and_up• 10 years ago

I have worked remotely for 4 years. I posted this on another thread but it seems relevant here:

Start by creating a remote-first culture. Everyone should think "remote" first. Thus it should never matter if a local employee is working from home, the HQ, from the other side of the world. Make all work processes remote friendly. That should be step zero when considering hiring a remote person regardless of the reason. The goal should be to avoid a two-tiered culture. Some differences will always be there but if the spirit of the remote-friendly culture is there integration is pretty fluid. Thus (near) all communication happens in Slack/Hipchat/etc. Group meetings, when including remote people, happen in video conf / Hangouts. Shared Google docs to collaborate on. Have in-person meetups 2-4 x a year for beneficial face-time and for people to get to know each other better on a personal level. When a new person is hired, have them do 20 min 1-on-1's with all team members to get to know each other and their job role. Have monthly video conf/hangouts on non-work technical topics where people rotate presenting. The biggest element is the decision to be a fully remote team. Which honestly is a major retention benefit as well. Why should local employees not enjoy the same flexibility to work as needed remotely?

coderdude• 10 years ago

Groove has some good blog posts about working remotely. They were my inspiration to start hiring remote workers.

https://www.groovehq.com/blog/being-a-remote-team

https://www.groovehq.com/blog/remote-work-tips

Successfully Onboarding Remote Developers

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