One of the greatest perks of working at Expensify is that you are surrounded by passionate, mature people naturally motivated to do the right thing. This works because we hire people who have three key characteristics:
- Extreme natural talent
- Long term ambition
- Deep humility
All three matter in different ways, but the third is particularly relevant here because it’s what ensures everybody has an appreciation for the limits of their knowledge — which translates into a low-drama, super collaborative environment.
Now, when people hear “collaborative environment”, they typically think about the various off-the-shelf management techniques, like Scrum, Agile, Holacracy, or whatever the pop-business gurus are selling these days. We don’t use any of those. Rather, we try to live by two main principles: Continue Reading…