Awesome Culture
A curated list of awesome thought on tech culture. Inspired by the various awesome-*
projects
This is an ever-evolving list, and thus a continual work in progress. Feel free to contribute! Please follow the pull request model ;)
NB: There will be duplicates! If a resource falls under multiple categories, it will be placed under each section.
Table of Contents
- Manifestos
- Company Ethos
- Lessons Learned
- Quality of Life
- Engineering Management
- Work Space
- Hiring
- Interviewing
- Inspiration
- Diversity
- Miscellaneous
Manifestos
- Here's to the crazy ones (Apple)
- Code & Coffee Manifesto
- Full disclaimer: @expede (repo owner) helps organize Code & Coffee
- Humane Development
Company Ethos
Lessons Learned
Quality of Life
- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
- How GitHub Works
- "Vacations are for the weak"
- "Silence is for the Weak"
- work-for-a-remote-culture
- What makes us feel good about our work?
- How to make work-life balance work
Engineering Management
- Why Firing Brilliant Assholes Is Required to Build a Great Engineering Culture
- Building a strong engineering culture
- DevOps Culture
Work Space
Hiring
- Patty McCord: A Culture of Innovation
- Why Firing Brilliant Assholes Is Required to Build a Great Engineering Culture
- What Company Culture Is and Is Not
- Never, Ever Compromise: Hiring For Culture Fit
- People matter most
Interviewing
- Why We Don't Ask Technical Questions for Technical Interviews at Buffer
- You suck at technical interviews
- Never, Ever Compromise: Hiring For Culture Fit
Inspiration
Diversity
- Recurse Center (previously Hacker School)
- Django Community Diversity Statement
- Diversity Debt: How Much Does Your Startup Have?
Miscellaneous
- What Company Culture Is and Is Not
- Kindness is Underrated
- Be Kind
- Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
- What makes us feel good about our work?
- Valve Employee Handbook
- Making 20% Time Work
- Why Spotify’s agile patterns work and why you shouldn’t copy them
- Applying Design Thinking to HR and People Ops