No-process culture has costs at scale
Decisions you'd expect a doc or RFC for happen in 1:1s and Slack threads. Faster, but tribal knowledge piles up.
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Decisions you'd expect a doc or RFC for happen in 1:1s and Slack threads. Faster, but tribal knowledge piles up.
Quarterly conversations about whether you'd be missed if you left. Some managers do this well as a development tool. Mine treated it as a stress lever. I lasted 20 months.
Top of market on base salary. Performance bonus structure simple and transparent. They pay you to stay because they could let you go tomorrow — and that's the deal you signed up for.
No approval-chain culture. If you can defend the decision you can make it. The flipside is the keeper-test culture — every quarter you're effectively re-justifying your seat. Not for everyone.
Demo content. Keeper test and feedback cycles are recurring themes.
Demo content. Reviewers cite generous pay and the well-known performance culture.