Working 100% remote (software dev) for about a year and a half. 15 years in various offices before that. I can’t imagine having to get up extra early, get ready, drive across town, park, walk into the office, settle into my open office air space, finally get working...then reverse the process at the end of the day.<p>A recruiter cold called me recently on a local full time dev position at a big bank. He asked “...how do you feel about wearing a tie to work?”
Has anyone here had good luck with junior engineers working remotely? (I'm sure companies like Zapier have solved this). I've found that with senior engineers (defined not by the job title but the ability to take a coarsely defined problem like "figure out what is causing the I/O performance issues on this service and fix it") it's very easy to have them remote. Junior engineers with a senior engineer leading/managing them on-site, also fine. But I have not been able to successfully work with junior engineers who need mentoring and learning remotely.<p>What processes/practices/tools have people succeeded with here?
I was pretty surprised by some of these numbers about remote work in the U.S. For example, 31 percent of Millenial knowledge workers surveyed work remotely full time. 27 percent for Gen X.