Greg Leib on Software

Yesterday morning, my software engineering team and I learned that we would be moving into subleased office space on the fourth floor. In the afternoon, with little fanfare and only one cardboard box among us, we moved all our stuff down two floors. In full disclosure, I did offer to buy some at Staples across the street, but nobody really felt it necessary. I think our move exemplifies the kind of culture I want to build as we grow the engineering team: unfussy, collaborative, empowered, pragmatic. The job market for software engineers in NYC is booming, so it is surprising to many candidates how much we care about team culture. We've declined to make an offer based on culture more here than anywhere else that I've conducted engineering interviews for. There's certainly a "no assholes" rule around here, but our considerations go deeper than that. Ultimately, we want to hire people aligned with our company's values: Entrepreneurial thinking and actio...

Recruitics has a culture that celebrates exceptional results.  The expression "get shit done" or more commonly "GSD" has become something of a mantra around our office.  We have GSD stickers and t-shirts. We even have a #gsd message channel where we call out peers who go above and beyond.  When I first heard the phrase, my reaction was not positive. To me it seemed to encourage indiscriminate action and low-quality work. But as I have learned since then, there is a lot of nuance behind the concept - and it goes to the core of what makes Recruitics a unique workplace. In this post, I want to use GSD as a lens to explain a little about our engineering culture. Of course, within Recruitics d ifferent disciplines and teams manifest GSD in different ways: A salesperson who calls a prospect on a Saturday afternoon with a carefully-crafted value proposition.  An account manager who obtains an industry certification that helps her better serve clients. An executiv...