- Everyone is safe, respected, and treated with empathy and dignity.
- Pay is competitive, fair, and relatively transparent.
- Capitalize on a culture of looking at other jobs in other companies.
- Titled leaders deeply respect their implicit influence.
- Managers of technical workers are always highly technically skilled.
- The team is the most important first product.
- Engineers are not fungible resources.
- Teams build themselves together purposefully and actively.
- Don't create artificial roles (devops, test/QA, etc).
- Engineers must grow skills both broadly and deeply.
- Engineers must grow leadership and mentoring skills.
- Engineers must have a sensitivity for business concerns.
- Juniors must learn/grow to become seniors.
- Drop features, not quality.
- No knowledge is "too academic."
- Well reasoned debate is welcome and expected.
- Mistakes are owned collectively, not assigned to individuals.
- Mistakes are fixed at a root level.
- We invite, not expect, personal time spent on professional goals.