Comment by dsumenkovic | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dsumenkovic | Hacker News Reader

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Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here. Thanks wjohnsto for sharing a link to our Handbook.

I'd love to share our "All Remote" page as well. https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/.

There you can read how remote work is changing the workforce, how it changes the organization, advantages for employees and organizations and what did we learn about remote working.

Additionally, our blog page is the great place to learn about our culture and remote working at GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/blog/.

Here's the list of our blog posts I would recommend. This may be a really interesting read for you:

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/18/the-case-for-all-remote-...

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/05/17/eliminating-distractions...

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/27/remote-future-how-remote...

[4] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/17/remote-work-facilitates-...

[5] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/03/16/remote-work-done-right/

Thank you for making these available and being so open.

You are welcome!

Thanks for sharing this. A quick suggestion though: you might want to limit the number of links you share in a single comment, as these 2+5 seem a bit too much for me, and they might look like you're trying to publicize your company a tad too much.

Or, from a slightly different perspective, they might look like you're trying to say as much as possible about the company you work for, instead of focusing on providing value to your readers.

To be clear, this just as a simple suggestion, based on the perception I had from your comment and from my personal experience (former tech evangelist at Amazon for 6 years, trying to give you my 0.02 to make you succeed in one of the hardest jobs in the world - I've been in these shoes :D)

While I agree with the suggestion, the way you tried so hard to be non-confrontational about it made it a little bit nauseating :P

You know? You are actually right. And your suggestion to me is very valuable. Thanks for sharing it.

Hey Simone, thank you for the feedback. I really appreciate your thoughts and your advice make sense.

It's amazing to see people from various communities helping each other with simple tips, we call that a small iteration :-).

I never expected this thread will grow this much. At the moment of posting my comment, the thread was almost empty and my intention was to share as much of valuable information to captaindiego. However, it turned into a reaally big thread and the context of my comment probably turned into something else for later viewers.

Anyway, as we always try to stay transparent I left it as it is. Thank you for your great opinion, I'll consider your words when posting a comment next time.

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