EATS LUNCH TOGETHER
Whether we’re around the table in-person or virtually, we enjoy spending time together.
We think it’s important to like the people you work with, which is why we invest heavily in building relationships within and between teams. Our onsite lunch catering and large kitchen spaces make it easy for teams to eat together – something we all missed while we were away. To that end, we try to keep our teams small enough to fit around one or two kitchen tables. If it’s nice outside, some teams might leave the building and eat in a nearby park, or they’ll take their lunches to a room to watch videos or chat about topics of interest.
Teams also have offsite budgets to spend as they wish. In the past, teams have gone to lunches, pedicures, escape rooms, karaoke, woodshop classes, baseball games, and more. Onsite, it’s not uncommon for people to get together for things like book clubs, board game sessions, poker games, and Super Smash tournaments. In a virtual environment, teams have gotten creative with activities like asking random questions in a watercooler Slack channel a couple times a week, playing Codenames virtually, virtual escape rooms, virtual Airbnb experiences, virtual lunches, and many more.
With our new hybrid working model, Makers go into our offices twice a week with their teams and work from home the other three days. This allows us to collaborate while also providing flexibility. We’ll continue to develop relationships in person, while still using the virtual communication skills we’ve built as a result of the pandemic.
Our teams are cross-functional, and you aren’t limited to only forging relationships with people who do the same thing as you. An engineer can expect to get to know designers, product managers, business leaders, and operations folks. A lot of people like to use a Slack extension called Donut, which matches up random people across the company every two weeks, regardless of role, and invites them to go grab a Donut or coffee and become acquaintances. Our CTO, James Chen, also holds virtual office hours for Makers, with an open forum to discuss anything engineering-related.
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Whether we’re around the table in-person or virtually, we enjoy spending time together.
We think it’s important to like the people you work with, which is why we invest heavily in building relationships within and between teams. Our onsite lunch catering and large kitchen spaces make it easy for teams to eat together – something we all missed while we were away. To that end, we try to keep our teams small enough to fit around one or two kitchen tables. If its nice outside, some teams might leave the building and eat in a nearby park, or they’ll take their lunches to a room to watch videos or chat about topics of interest.
Teams also have offsite budgets to spend as they wish. In the past, teams have gone to lunches, pedicures, escape rooms, karaoke, woodshop classes, baseball games, and more. Onsite, it’s not uncommon for people to get together for things like book clubs, board game sessions, poker games, and Super Smash tournaments. In a virtual environment, teams have gotten creative with activities like asking random questions in a watercooler Slack channel a couple times a week, playing Codenames virtually, virtual escape rooms, virtual Airbnb experiences, virtual lunches, and many more.
With our new hybrid working model, Makers go into our offices twice a week with their teams and work from home the other three days. This allows us to collaborate while also providing flexibility. We’ll continue to develop relationships in person, while still using the virtual communication skills we’ve built as a result of the pandemic.
Our teams are cross-functional, and you aren’t limited to only forging relationships with people who do the same thing as you. An engineer can expect to get to know designers, product managers, business leaders, and operations folks. A lot of people like to use a Slack extension called Donut, which matches up random people across the company every two weeks, regardless of role, and invites them to go grab a Donut or coffee and become acquaintances. Our CTO, James Chen, also holds virtual office hours for Makers, with an open forum to discuss anything engineering-related.