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Our ways of working

Flexible working hours4
Emoji use encouraged3
Eat lunch together2
Mostly async work2
No managers2
Schedule coffee with anyone1
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Our tools and software 🛠

Notion3
Slack3
Figma3
Zoom2
Shortcut2
Gmail1
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Kelsey Bishop

Our biggest win 🥇

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!!

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Celebrating success 🎉

Emojis in slack/discord1
Public shoutouts1
Weekly1
We use a tool1
#wins Slack/discord channel1
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Favorite team memories

John Faulkner-Willcocks's favorite memory in Candor

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

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5 Takes

Our meetings are for…

Problem solve4
Status updates4
Build relationships & connection3
Collaborate3
Feedback3
Share learnings / retros2
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Felix Lau

How our culture is unique 🦄

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!

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8 Takes

How we do feedback

In our 1:1s8
Ad hoc7
Weekly2
Constant feedback1
Monthly1
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Where we work📍

Remote8
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John Faulkner-Willcocks

Our biggest win 🥇

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.

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Our stance on well-being

Flexible working hours1
Office setup budget1
Parental leave1
Personal development budget1
Pets welcome1
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Sam Dubeau

Areas for growth 📈

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. 🔋

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Favorite Slack channels

productfeedback2
product1
podcast1
weeklysprintplanning1
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How we share our learnings 💭

Monthly1
Retros1
Weekly1
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Bacall Sterling

Favorite team memories

Bacall Sterling's favorite memory in Candor

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

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Felix Lau

Our biggest win 🥇

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 :)

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Kelsey Bishop

Favorite team memories

Kelsey Bishop's favorite memory in Candor

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.

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Kelsey Bishop

Our work hours ⏰

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.