#Shadowing Visit to Cognizant Quickleft
####Something that was unexpected about dev team environment:
- The dog 'Luna'
- the new company role within Cognizant
- no longer consulting really? One fact that stuck with me is that Cognizant has 200,000 back end devs in India.
####General info on how the team collaborates:
- Team Retro was cool - particularly the Fibonacci Ranking system / everyone announcing their score at once.
- It did seem that the people working in Boulder were negotiating the challenges of working with projects and teams that are separated from each other. I think the Quickleft culture wants to try and influence this.
####How the environment at Turing relates to the environment you shadowed:
- Generally positive / supportive. There are good people there that are trying to change a larger corporate culture that has been in place for a long time.
- The owner Ingrid emphasized her view that junior devs learn best in immersive environments with senior devs - whether or not they will keep this culture with a larger corporate structure may be their grand experiment.