[sage76]

> You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question

Here's what typically happened in every company I worked at. I ask a question, they tell me to look at the documentation. I look it up, do what I needed to do, and at some point, it all unravels because the documentation is horribly out of date, and there was something else that needed to be done from the beginning, which this other guy knows about.

Training is always awful, in person and remote. Nobody wants to help or give any info, even when you are asking questions specific to the company product. Things that can't be googled, or things that the team would be better off just telling rather than letting the new guy struggle for a week.

No I'm not bitter at all.....

[mejutoco]

Sometimes I do a sketch MR and share that code. Then other people can give advice and check some specific implementation. I found in general discussions are more productive when discussing specific things. This also shows to people that you did some work. In general it makes them more receptive.

[ckdarby]

This is where feeding all written communication, tickets, docs, etc into a model solves this.

The model provides that "Google search" experience, but for specific to the company.