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by sdtsui
3425 days ago
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Interesting. Is your entire company distributed, or is there the option to have some face-to-face collaboration? I haven't worked on a team where everyone was happy with hangouts. Yeah, maybe a few people go "eh, works, no major issues", but that's different from "we like using this software and increases our productivity". There's always some humor/a running joke when someone's sound dies, or we need to restart the call. I also haven't observed any distributed company in my network where they had >15 engineers and haven't invested in some paid software with collaboration features beyond hangouts: Zoom, Bluejeans, Screenhero (if a face-to-face video isn't needed, or rarely). One example, pairing: being able to "drive" your coworker's screen for a few minutes without no setup is better than Floobits. Hangouts does not allow this. I believe on some browsers you also can't see the sharer's mouse. Does that answer your question? Defnitely curious, to learn of other remote teams' tools, and what works for them. I'd love to hear more about what your workflow is like and what you like about it. |
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Our hangout usage is mostly for meetings, which are just check-ins and planning meetings. Typically during the course of a meeting several people will briefly screenshare what they're working on, and a typical meeting involves multiple time-zones and states (although we're all US-based).
Sometimes pairing is done using hangouts, which isn't the best solution, but also isn't overly inhibiting. We are a small company, but > 15 developers.
I've never wanted to drive the coworker's screen, however I could see how that could be useful in many cases.
I'm not particularly thrilled with hangouts, in the same way I'm not particularly thrilled with, say, ssh--but it has always gotten the job done and allowed me to share my screen with others painlessly.