In previous Expensify blog posts you may have heard us refer to WOW Fridays. Every Friday at Expensify, we allow our engineers the freedom to work on projects of their choosing, that aren’t necessarily part of our immediate product roadmap. We do this in order to allow them to exercise their creative freedom with the benefit that we end up with some really cool additions to the product. Well, the latest product of WOW Fridays is here: Continue Reading…
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Here at Expensify, our team is as diverse as they come. One thing we have in common is that we absolutely love what we do. So much so that we oftentimes find ourselves practicing our passion for building even when not using our powers to make users happy.
You know that phenomenon- the spillover of creative energies that is manifest in the form of side projects: those small unexpected products that arise from weekends of pleasurable hacking and challenge seeking.
The benefits of having such side projects are well established. The plethora of blog posts out there usually have these oft-repeated, but sound points:
- Staying on Top of New Ideas in the Industry, a.k.a Employability
- Refreshing old skills
- Participating in a community – Open Source, Non-profits
- ???
- Profit!
