Flock Safety

• largely free to attack problems as you see fit
• pay is competitive
• “unlimited” PTO

• Engineering is largely ignored in company Kool Aid sessions.

• Tech debt grows quickly because one-off hacks are preferred over building sustainably.

• “Bias for action” has been translated to “run with your first idea, no matter how bad”.

• Upper management doesn’t really care about your ideas.

• Most product decisions are whatever will make the next sale.

• Quality software and Flock engineering are a Venn diagram of two distinct circles.

Focus on performance and maintainability of your software, stop letting sales define your product, and use a real roadmap that allows paying tech debt.

0 to 1 is a phase of the product that shouldn’t define the product; go back, refine and polish until it feels good to use, bugs can be fixed quickly, and features are easy to add.