RANT: I HATE WFO
I'm a 2023 grad but I've worked in VC/HFT/GSoC/startups
I'm so fed up with the WFO culture. What do you even get by getting employees in office?
What's the point? I'm an engineer, I can write code from anywhere on the planet with internet and laptop.
Been looking for a role since August, while having a solid dev ex yet all these fools are WFO that reduces half the number of companies I want to work for.
Any suggestions or am I being a fool?
For companies, WFO fosters collaboration, and further Innovation. Things may also move a bit faster when everyone is available at the same time.
WFH is good option for a lot of employee, but it kind of makes it impossible for the above things. When company would like to focus on generating more profit, why would they prefer WFH?
Also, please don't generalise everything with your 'zero' real experience (without full-time permanent experience), and that too at an HFT company. If you just want continue to write code monotonously, WFH will be ideal as well.
Hybrid should be the way to go.
PS: Whenever I'm in Bengaluru, I usually go to office everyday, and I like it. But I also have the freedom (fortunately) to take WFH whenever I want for any number of days - and am remote currently.
You spend ~1/3 of your peak life with strangers, so wfo also helps in establishing a good rapport with them.
Define "collaboration" . Show me the data. By your logi productivity during chinese virus would have been 0
@AliveYouth71 during covid, almost all of the companies (read employees) made some rubbish decisions, the effect of which is prevailing since over an year.
I started remote and thought the same since then have been shifting on and off and can finally conclude
Office is amazing if you have super talented folks working on an actual important problem. Two years with them will change your life. Two years in remote with them and all you will have is improved programming skills
Remote is great for execution and for planning only good if people know how to do remote. Most don't. Most are copying the office culture in remote settings thereby making you have same number of meetings but now virtual.
Reason ceos want employees back is because they believe they have amazing people and culture though reality is it might be full of politics. Always prefer remote for such companies. But if you get extremely talented folks in one room remote is useless, open ai could never be built remotely.
So here’s a harsh reality - companies do not care whether people prefer WFO or WFH. What they care about is how well the company will do in which situation and take a decision based on that. Of course, it would depend on the investors as well who can suggest the company to restart operations from the office.
You want WFO? That’s your choice. But every single employee, no matter how good will always be replaceable. And the company will always find good resources who are ready to work from the office.