Values

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.

Interesting values/principles

• Oxide Principles of Operation

• Write.as principles

• Amazon's Leadership Principles

• Glitch Company values

• Figma's engineering values

• Bright Paper

• On Deck - Operating Principles

Team values

• 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

Notes

• Adversity is an opportunity to show great character. Bad things are good things in disguise.

Links

• 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)

• My Engineering Values (2020)