The Gravitational Pull
summary
Gravitational describes a 47 person startup with 47 employees, 19 engineers across three teams in four countries and offices in Seattle Oakland and Toronto now closed for COVID the company runs Go TypeScript and CoffeeScript and says the move to fully remote works smoothly thanks to its open core transparency and documented processes hiring ramps back up with hiring ~25 people this year candidate experience uses a coding challenge clear leveling 1–6 an office stipend $1000 and one funded conference per year.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50About Gravitational
- 7:25Company Culture
- 13:45WorkLife Balance
- 15:58Culture
- 17:27Perks
- 22:35Positions
- 29:10Open Core Culture
- 32:15Values
- 34:35Coding Challenge
- 35:38Being Clear
- 37:48Candidate Process
- 39:02Transparency
- 40:18Strengths
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