> Is the company communication designed to be asynchronous?
No. There will always be some boomer who refuses to use Slack messages and needs handholding on Zoom video for the most minor discussions. Character traits include emotional manipulation, not invented here syndrome, poor time management.
They've been struggling to deploy a simple microservice for multiple financial quarters but will snap and call you slow when their code review process stalls.
It's not easy to teach the concept of decoupling as a problem solving strategy. They've suffered the yoke of enterprise programming for so long, that they feel naked without iron chafing at the neck.