[tlogan]

I think that WFH for younger individuals might be a problem: a lot of things I learned when I was young was by chatting with senior engineers and senior management. During coffee breaks or random hallway talk. Basically you do not know that you don’t know and that you do not even know what to ask. And management including EVPs was always marking expresso or teas for them self in the morning thus prompting this unofficial brain dump.

I think that is the only benefit of working in the office. And I really do not how to replicate that in WFH environment.

[bsima]

People keep bringing this up, about junior developers. But my experience as a junior was very different. I didn't have senior mentors, I learned mostly from irc and stackoverflow, in fact I worked remotely for most of my junior years, and it worked out for me. (I'm a senior staff engineer at a "unicorn" now.)