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Thriving as a Remote Developer When Your Team is Not Remote-first

Christina Gorton on February 17, 2019

There can be a lot of disadvantages to being one of the only remote workers on a team. My first 2 jobs as a developer have been on non-distributed ...
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Christina Gorton

Best of luck! Learning to ask good questions can be the hardest park of a remote job. This post really helped me when I first started working remotely medium.com/@gordon_zhu/how-to-be-g...

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Shaun McWhinnie

PREACH. Particularly the 8-10 team members standing 5 feet from a mic in an echo-y office. I spent a month shout 'COME CLOSER I CANT HEAR YOU' until the message stuck.

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Christina Gorton

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜­ Yep, I've been there. I still seem to have to do this at least once a month because the company I am currently working with brings on new contractors constantly.

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Shaun McWhinnie

Our contractors are mostly remote and speaking English as a second language, but because they're at a desk with a headset, I can hear them far better than my own domestic team

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Gift Egwuenu

Really insightful. Thanks for sharing!

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Ben Halpern

Nice post, good luck continuing to navigate this!

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Christina Gorton

Thanks πŸ™‚