Engieer Culture at Glow

engineer-culture-at-glow

# Engineer Culture at Glow

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## Should we really care about culture at startups?

Good culture makes a company more efficient and scalable
- Lower communication cost
- Helps individual development, especially for junior members
- Makes the team unique
- Essential for building a long-lasting company

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## Examples of successful team culture

Facebook - Move fast and break things

Github - Asnychronous communication

Instagram - Optimize for minimal operational burden

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## Team culture at Glow

- Our CEO Mike defined 10 core values of Glow in early days of the compnay
  - Show commitment in everything you do
  - Hard work pays
  - Got to have fun
  - ...

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## Engineer culture - Software design

- Capture every piece of data and make it highly avaiable
- Simplicity over extensibility
- Embrace cloud-services & open sources projects

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## Engineer culture - People

- You own product features not code modules
- Make your work visible so that others 
  - Know your progress, potential risk
  - Be able to review and audit your work
- When encountering issues, offer solutions not excuses

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## Engineering Tasks & Refactors

Priorities:
1. Cut down development time 
2. Improve data integrity
3. Improve app performance (client > server)

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## Post-mortem

You should always do post-mortem for every major incidents
- Write it down
- Focus on reducing system-error instead of human-error

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## Learn & Share

- If you're too busy with work and don't have time to learn new things, it's bad for you and for the company.
- To maximize the value of your learning is to share with the team, or with all developers in the world
    - Internal tech talk
    - Tech blog, http://tech.glowing.com
    - Open source project, http://github.com/Glow-Inc

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# Q & A

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## Thanks!
### We're hiring!