Communcating Outside the Codebase
Why talk about communication? It’s easy to get away as a poor communicator when you work on a small team sharing a small office space. When the team around you begins to grow and face-to-face interactions become shorter and less frequent, the teams that have invested in strong communication skills and competencies start to stand out. For engineers, time spent improving communication skills often feels like a fuzzy, low-yield investment. In practice, however, we’ve seen the contrary. Excellence in communication, coupled with over-communication, is a core principle of our engineering team at Simon. The goal of this post is to capture some of the characteristics we’ve observed leading to successful communication within the company. The Basics Actions may speak louder than words, but words are pretty loud, too. Every time you communicate with another person, your demeanor will influence the other person’s opinion of you, as well as their desire to interact with you in the future. In ...
