Bringing this back around with a couple of updates worth sharing.
We’re a fully remote team spread across nine time zones, which means most of what makes our engineering culture work has to happen asynchronously. Pull requests carry more context than a typical Slack thread would, and design docs are written assuming the reader wasn’t in the room when the idea started.
We also protect focus time aggressively. Engineers get two meeting-free days a week by default, and any recurring meeting has to justify its existence every quarter or it gets cut. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s one that’s let a fourteen-person engineering team ship faster than teams three times our size.
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