Awesome Culture

A curated list of awesome thought on tech culture. Inspired by the various awesome-* projects

This is an ever-evolving list, and thus a continual work in progress. Feel free to contribute! Please follow the pull request model ;)

NB: There will be duplicates! If a resource falls under multiple categories, it will be placed under each section.

Table of Contents

• Manifestos
• Company Ethos
• Lessons Learned
• Quality of Life
• Engineering Management
• Work Space
• Hiring
• Interviewing
• Inspiration
• Diversity
• Miscellaneous

Manifestos

• Here's to the crazy ones (Apple)
• Code & Coffee Manifesto
  • Full disclaimer: @expede (repo owner) helps organize Code & Coffee
• Humane Development
  • RailsConf 2015 Presentation

Company Ethos

• How GitHub Works
• bjeanes/culture
• Buffer Culture
• How GitHub Works
  • Slides

Lessons Learned

• Patty McCord: A Culture of Innovation

Quality of Life

• Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
• How GitHub Works
  • Slides
• "Vacations are for the weak"
• "Silence is for the Weak"
• work-for-a-remote-culture
• What makes us feel good about our work?
• How to make work-life balance work

Engineering Management

• Why Firing Brilliant Assholes Is Required to Build a Great Engineering Culture
• Building a strong engineering culture
• DevOps Culture

Work Space

• "Silence is for the Weak"
• work-for-a-remote-culture

Hiring

• Patty McCord: A Culture of Innovation
• Why Firing Brilliant Assholes Is Required to Build a Great Engineering Culture
• What Company Culture Is and Is Not
• Never, Ever Compromise: Hiring For Culture Fit
• People matter most

Interviewing

• Why We Don't Ask Technical Questions for Technical Interviews at Buffer
• You suck at technical interviews
• Never, Ever Compromise: Hiring For Culture Fit

Inspiration

• Value Handbook for New Employees
• How GitHub Works
  • Slides

Diversity

• Recurse Center (previously Hacker School)
• Django Community Diversity Statement
• Diversity Debt: How Much Does Your Startup Have?

Miscellaneous

• What Company Culture Is and Is Not
• Kindness is Underrated
• Be Kind
• Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
• What makes us feel good about our work?
• Valve Employee Handbook
• Making 20% Time Work
• Why Spotify’s agile patterns work and why you shouldn’t copy them
• Applying Design Thinking to HR and People Ops