Roku

Still a startup, even though 400 employees strong.

Engineering culture without bureaucracy.

A baby Netflix when it comes to company culture, minus formal 360s. Relief.

Senior personnel: hire the top 1% of all applicants and recruits.

Beautiful campus in South Bay, Los Gatos.

CEO is an engineer, very technical and has a handle on business and technology.

Rely on strong, independent leads to make decisions, not committees.

Free lunch and snacks save employees lots of time and money.

Dense work days mean very little special events or parties to distract or disrupt, so you can leave work at the office.

The best part is the disruption to the television space. The flagship Roku OS product is doing to cable and satellite space as it competes for user eyeballs and advertising dollars, media, and licensing deals globally.

Starting to go through growing pains such as scaling, dedicating resources, project prioritization, and re-orgs.

Keep up the great leadership and engineering culture. Operate like a startup with small and effective, pizza-box-sized teams. Don't instrument too many processes that might stifle innovation. Embrace modern software development practices and technology solutions. Continue making our customers delighted with the Roku experience, end-to-end.