About the team
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Most commonly used prompts
How are you feeling? 💖
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What are you focusing on? 🎧
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Have a weekend snap 📸 to share?
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What are you watching? 📺
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What did you accomplish since the last check-in? 💪
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What are you hoping to achieve before the next check-in? 🎯
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Upload a demo of something you worked on since the last check in. (100 MB / ~1 min max)
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What have you been learning? 🧠
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Teammates celebrate one person in the team living one of these team values.
Frequently celebrated values
Execute quickly with energy and grit
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Support
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Be direct and thoughtful
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Speed
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1‑on‑1s
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1‑on‑1 meetings
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Agenda items
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Feedback
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Team pairings
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How we share our learnings 💭

Weekly2
Notion & Weekly Demos1
During 1 on 1 meetings1
Monthly1
Retros1
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Our meetings are for…

Status updates3
Collaborate2
Problem solve1
Share learnings / retros1
Build relationships & connection1
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Currently based in 🌎

Lisbon1
Mexico City1
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Behaviors we don't like… 😤

  • Idling – to overthink something and not to move forward is the same as not doing anything at all 
  • Not questioning why – I need thought partners on Candor, not just additional pairs of hands
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  • Bad attitude 
  • Lack of flexibility
  • Poor communication (someone who’s not direct and doesn’t communicate clearly)
  • Hard to collaborate with 
  • Not addressing hard conversations / negative feedback
  • Resistance to feedback
  • Negativity
  • Lack of empathy 

 
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  • Lack of respect 🤬
  • Lack of trust 🤨
  • Micromanagement 👀
  • Extreme reporting (loading hours 🤮)
  • Fake people 🤫
  • Too many planned meetings
    • It goes against async and we loose flexibility
    • It gets distracting

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Behaviors we're inspired by...

 In no specific order:  
  • Collaboration 
  • Ownership (autonomy, problem-solving, resposibility)
  • Celebrate wins, appreciate teammates 
  • Participation in team dynamics
  • Direct and clear communication 
  • Growth mindset
  • Positive energy and speed
  • Empathy
  • Flexibility

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  • Being unafraid of challenging our own decisions 👉️👈️
  • Showing high work quality 🥇
  • Documenting properly so others can have the proper context
  • Fast communication 
  • Solving problems quickly 
  • Expressing our feelings so we can work things out together.
  • Being able to disagree and yet both sides are respectfully heard and considered. 
  •  Not leaving dirty stuff aside so others deal with it, making sure everything is tracked on shurtcut as FUPs when we cannot implement it now. 
  • Being able to simplify complex things into smaller pieces that are more actionable. 
  • Learning and sharing learnings constantly 🤓
  • Respecting others time to speak, think and express.
  • Feeling seen 😊
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  • Complete day-to-day autonomy 🙌
  • Coming up with initiatives independently 🤔
  • Conviction that what is being done, matters 🙏
  • Minimal sync meetings 👍️
  • A feeling of productivity from sync meetings 😆
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Celebrating success 🎉

Weekly3
Public shoutouts3
#wins Slack/discord channel3
Emojis in slack/discord2
Quarterly1
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Our tools and software 🛠

Figma3
Slack3
Notion3
Todoist2
ChatGPT2
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Our ways of working

Flexible working hours3
Video on for zoom calls2
Mostly async work2
You can ask the CEO anything2
No managers2
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Areas for growth 📈

It'd be awesome to share even more in our personal Candor profiles and our Team Space 🐘 

I'd love to learn more about the team, what they're happy about our processes, team dynamics, etc. and what could improve ✔️
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How our culture is unique 🦄

In the past, I've worked in teams with hierarchical structures, where there was no autonomy for each person to develop their own work, nor was there the necessary collaboration to nurture personal and team growth. I learned that I wasn’t happy working this way and that I wasn’t learning enough. What I appreciate the most about Candor is that the model we have allows more personal freedom and more autonomy to develop our own work on a daily basis. At the same time, we nurture a strong collaborative environment where the team shares their knowledge, collaborates on projects, and keeps honest feedback with each other.
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As a candor member you feel seen, heard, valued, and challenged every day!
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I have freedom and autonomy to determine and do what I think is important.
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Our strengths 💪

Everyone is a great thought leader for the product
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Caring for others, caring for accessibility, caring for our codebase, etc.
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Our biggest win 🥇

When we landed the current implementation of profiles (the card wall).
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Our culture ❤️
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Our work hours ⏰

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.

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How we do feedback

In our 1:1s4
Ad hoc3
Constant feedback1
Weekly1
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Favorite Slack channels

productfeedback2
weeklysprintplanning1
podcast1
product1
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Our stance on well-being

Personal development budgetFlexible working hoursPets welcomeParental leaveOffice setup budget

My personal goal for our culture is that it feels like a "take what you need" type of workplace. I'd like to create a space where people feel comfortable taking time off, sharing how they are feeling, adjusting work hours to suit their lifestyle, etc.

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Where we work📍

Remote4
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Favorite 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.