Teamflow

Teamflow's culture is composed of three pillars:

• An elite institution (who we are)
  - Fuck yes or no.
  ‍We only hire people we're extremely excited about. Everyone has a veto right over anyone who'll join their team — no questions asked. If there’s a doubt, there’s no doubt.
  - We care about each other.
  ‍An elite institution is still a place where it's okay to be going through tough times personally, say "I don't know," or "sorry, I screwed up." We assume best intentions, genuinely care about each other's well-being, and have each other's backs in tough times.
  - Candor with care.
  ‍The best way to improve is to receive a lot of feedback, which we give as often as quickly as possible.
  But for feedback to be effective, it needs to be paired with care. The point is never to hurt or to vent your anger — always to improve as a team.
• Doing the best work of our lives (what we do)
  - Thinking on paper.
  "You can't do much carpentry with your bare hands, and you can't do much thinking with your bare brain." – Albert Einstein
  When confronted with a problem, we decompose it into parts; read the folks who dedicated their lives to it; and "think on paper" about it. Better, we share this thinking so that everyone can benefit and contribute to it.
  - Customer-obsessed.
  Customer experience is infinitely more important than maker experience.
  We keep the user in mind every step of the way, and go the extra mile to remove every last bit of friction from their life. All the better if it's hard — taking hard things off their shoulders is what customers pay us for.
  - We care.
  ‍There is no substitute to caring deeply about your work. We don't do good work because that's good business, because we want a promotion, or because that's what the value doc says. We do good work because we care, like good craftspeople do.
  - We leave our politics at the door.
  ‍We live in tumultuous, polarized times, and Teamfellows are widely spread geographically.
  Everybody won't have the same political opinions, and it's important not to let this be a distraction from our mission to build the best place for people to work together.
  We're not a think tank or a non-profit. We're a business, and while we do care about having a positive impact on the world, we think the most effective way we can do that is to spend each hour driving towards our vision.
  In practice, this means that we don't talk politics at work, or in work channels like Slack, email, or Teamflow. If you want to do this, feel free to chat with friends (including the ones at Teamflow!) using non-work channels like iMessage. And of course, this value does not apply to your other personal channels, like your Twitter or Facebook.
• Moving fast (how we do it)
  - We move fast…
  Big companies have thousands of employees, millions of users, and billions of dollars. The one advantage we have is speed, and we shouldn't waste it. It may seem meager, but it's actually huge — big enough for giants to routinely lose against upstarts.
  - … but we don't take shortcuts.
  ‍"One can use an eraser on the drafting board, or a sledgehammer on the construction site." – Frank Lloyd Wright
  We use lots of erasers, and few sledgehammers. We conduct user research and usability testing and write RFCs before we build. That does not mean we take it easy — we follow the road, with all its twists and turns, as fast as we can. But we don't go off-road, as we think it actually slows us down on net.
  - We put extraordinary effort to build an extraordinary company.
  We believe that growth happens at the point of failure. But we also recognize the importance of recovery. In practice, this means alternating periods of intense work with periods of "intense recovery," when we really disconnect. It is a Marathon and not a sprint — we just happen to be world-class marathoners.
  - Doers over don'ters / Owner mindset
  This is your company, and this is your product. You don't need to ask for permission to run experiments — just use your best judgment, informed with what you know about the company's priorities and values.

• Competitive salary and generous equity.
• Health coverage.
• A lot of autonomy within your area of responsibility.
• Freedom to work from anywhere in North or South America.
• The fun of working at a no-nonsense startup that just wants to build an amazing product and business.