Values help improve decision making. When faced with multiple tough decisions, company or personal values can help find the 'right' decision faster.
My personal values are encoded as rules I try to follow.
- Oxide Principles of Operation
- Write.as principles
- Amazon's Leadership Principles
- Glitch Company values
- Figma's engineering values
- Bright Paper
- Commitment, Focus, Courage, Openness & Respect
- Experiment
- Give space for team to focus
- Prioritize (Ability to say no)
- Courage to be wrong (
I don't understand). - Courage to try (fail & learn)
- Open to evaluation
- Call things out
- Respect each other
- Respect the product & the customers
- Respect the decisions of the team
- List of Questions to consider evaluating culture
- Key Values - Find engineering teams that share your values.
- What Are the React Team Principles? (2019) (HN)
- Cultural Fit - Collaborative list of corporate culture traits.
- A Hierarchy of Engineering Values (HN)
- 4 month at Buildkite (2020) - Amazing account of benefits at a company.
- Values Are the Rules You Break (2020)
- Designing a Culture of Reinvention (2020)
- Working at Stripe experience
- What Working At Stripe Has Been Like (2020) (HN)
- Mission Protocol (HN) (Ostrich Protocol)