About the team
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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
- 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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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
- 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 😆
- High ownership / autonomy
- Speed in execution
- Hard work, getting things over the line
- Kindness with honesty
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Celebrating success 🎉
Weekly2
Public shoutouts2
#wins Slack/discord channel2
Quarterly1
Team call1
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Our ways of working
Flexible working hours3
Video on for zoom calls2
No managers2
You can ask the CEO anything2
Mostly async work2
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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.
I have freedom and autonomy to determine and do what I think is important.
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Felix Lau
Our strengths 💪
Everyone is a great thought leader for the product
When John U reinforces the privacy/safety aspect of our product, and reminds us as a team to not fall into the social app traps which would make us an adjacent product to Linkedin and Glassdoor
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Our biggest win 🥇
When we landed the current implementation of profiles (the card wall).
Our culture ❤️
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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.
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Kelsey Bishop
Favorite memories
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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