Candor

Kelsey Bishop

Our culture ❤️

I think that it's taken a lot of trial and error and intentionality to get our culture where it is today. It's been hard getting the right teammates on, but well worth the challenges. Our culture of kindess, hard work, growth, and jamming gives me life!!

John Faulkner-Willcocks

NJ '22 Candor co-locate: Electric scooters and Product design 🤘

Felix Lau

I have freedom and autonomy to determine and do what I think is important.

Gone are meddling middle managers, arbitrary deadlines, and peers that fuss over how they appear with their teammates. This team focuses on getting real work done, doing it quickly and well, and enjoying the companionship of teammates along the way!

John Faulkner-Willcocks

How we embed and live values.

I've worked in a bunch of companies and teams that do a great job of creating beautiful, wall-worthy, aspirational culture statements and core values. Most didn't really go beyond that. I'm proud of how this team operationalizes our core values: from the day-to-day custom slack emojis to the rigor we spend continuously iterating on important features of our culture like our hiring process.

Sam Dubeau

It would be great to have more feel-good educational sessions regularly.

There's so much talent and knowledge on this team, and I just want to learn even more from each other, even if it's outside of the usual work scope. For instance, lunch-and-learns or story times about our personal travels, interests, or areas of expertise. I want us to share more between each other because there's so much to gain from each person's perspective! It gives me energy. 🔋

Bacall Sterling

Bermuda '23 co-location: Cooked meals together, had amazing jam sessions, and hiked around the island!

Felix Lau

When we landed the current implementation of profiles (the card wall).

It's become the flagship 'shot' of what Candor is in its current state! And we've gotten meaningful feedback about how it's beautiful and most definitively NOT just another linkedin profile :)

Kelsey Bishop

In Porto at our team co-location last year. Feel like we had some great jam sessions and was awesome to meet many teammates for the first time.

Kelsey Bishop

9AM-2PM EST sync, the rest async

We're in many different timezones so this works well for scheduling meetings but also giving everyone freedom to do work when it's good for them.