Company Culture
Syrus Mesdaghi
What is company culture?
What is company culture?
It is the personality of the company
Why company culture matters?
Why company culture matters?
- Retention of your employees and customers
Why company culture matters?
- Retention of your employees and customers
- Attraction of new employees and customers
What is good company culture?
...What is good company culture
- Trust
...What is good company culture
- Trust
- The will to getting things done and do them well
...What is good company culture
- Trust
- The will to getting things done and do them well
- Commitment to employees and customers
...What is good company culture
- Trust
- The will to getting things done and do them well
- Commitment to employees and customers
- Making it enjoyable to do what we do
...What is good company culture
- Trust
- The will to getting things done and do them well
- Commitment to employees and customers
- Making it enjoyable to do what we do
- Mixing in humor and play
...What is good company culture
- Trust
- The will to getting things done and do them well
- Commitment to employees and customers
- Making it enjoyable to do what we do
- Mixing in humor and play
- Welcoming open communication and feedback
- Should be able to talk about / contribute to things that need
improvement
...What is good company culture
- Trust
- The will to getting things done and do them well
- Commitment to employees and customers
- Making it enjoyable to do what we do
- Mixing in humor and play
- Welcoming open communication and feedback
- Should be able to talk about / contribute to things that need
improvement
- Connecting with colleagues and having a sense of belonging
- Getting to know your people
- Working to fit with more colleagues
- People who damage the culture are naturally filtered
...What is good company culture
- Trust
- The will to getting things done and do them well
- Commitment to employees and customers
- Making it enjoyable to do what we do
- Mixing in humor and play
- Welcoming open communication and feedback
- Should be able to talk about / contribute to things that need
improvement
- Connecting with colleagues and having a sense of belonging
- Getting to know your people
- Working to fit with more colleagues
- People who damage the culture are naturally filtered
- Hiring people who have the right personalities and values
...What is good company culture
- Trust
- The will to getting things done and do them well
- Commitment to employees and customers
- Making it enjoyable to do what we do
- Mixing in humor and play
- Welcoming open communication and feedback
- Should be able to talk about / contribute to things that need
improvement
- Connecting with colleagues and having a sense of belonging
- Getting to know your people
- Working to fit with more colleagues
- People who damage the culture are naturally filtered
- Hiring people who have the right personalities and values
- In-person meet ups are still important
What can we do better at PE?
- This is where we need your input
...What can we do better at PE?
- This is where we need your input
- We should constantly work on it
...What can we do better at PE?
- This is where we need your input
- We should constantly work on it
- Culture changes as companies grow, so we have to be proactive
...What can we do better at PE?
Some suggestions
- Have a routine for the crew’s Bdays
- I say we make the person wear a paper hat/funnel and we
sing to him/her? Instructions on how to make a bday hat
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Party-Hat
...Some suggestions
- Have a routine for the crew’s Bdays
- I say we make the person wear a paper hat/funnel and we
sing to him/her? Instructions on how to make a bday hat
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Party-Hat
- Have a monthly competition with a little prize?
- Betting on sporting events
- Doing the most push-ups in a month?
- Most number of steps?
...Some suggestions
- Have a routine for the crew’s Bdays
- I say we make the person wear a paper hat/funnel and we
sing to him/her? Instructions on how to make a bday hat
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Party-Hat
- Have a monthly competition with a little prize?
- Betting on sporting events
- Doing the most push-ups in a month?
- Most number of steps?
- Can always use more laughs… suggestions for this?
- Competition on funniest joke/story?
...Some suggestions
- Have a routine for the crew’s Bdays
- I say we make the person wear a paper hat/funnel and we
sing to him/her? Instructions on how to make a bday hat
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Party-Hat
- Have a monthly competition with a little prize?
- Betting on sporting events
- Doing the most push-ups in a month?
- Most number of steps?
- Can always use more laughs… suggestions for this?
- Competition on funniest joke/story?
- We want to hear from you!
...Some suggestions
Questions or Comment?
Feedback from y'all
- Code Reads, Peer Reviews, and More info sharing
- Engineers will definitely benefit
- Be it paired programming, or just code review
- Critical for juniors
- Not about does it work, is the unit test right... what others think. Did I miss something?
- Go longer on Daily's
- Maybe can mitigate by sending out the intro slides ahead of time and only doing the discussion during the daily
- Maybe overview is during daily, deep dive is offline
- Can we do the equivalent of "providing pizza"?
- Can we do the meaty part on slack?