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A bureaucracy-free environment that allows you to simply get work done.

Strong management with strong technical backgrounds all the way to the top.

A very metric-driven engineering team.

The ability to prioritize tasks based on what you think is important.

A remarkably well-defined review process that encourages personal development in different areas.

Company policy to leave unnecessary meetings early or skip them entirely.

Some politics and cliques. Some user-facing projects have too many product managers. Some late nights when supporting new code pushes. Fighting fires can become a full-time job.

Don't stop being open and transparent.

Daytime hackathons to encourage more participation for engineers with family commitments.

Improve recruiting's ability to filter candidates so engineering interviews have a lower reject rate.