Our version of company values...
We value honesty. We would rather have someone's honest take on an issue than be told what they think we want to hear.
In any debate or decision, the most reasonable position should win. Reason outweighs any status in the company hierarchy.
Of course, what's reasonable to me might not be reasonable to you. We have a set of decision-making frameworks we use for cases where there isn’t obvious consensus. Check them out here:
We want to make decisions based on data as much as possible, but we need to be smart about our conclusions. It’s possible to justify bad decisions based on shoddy use of data or be overly committed to “data-driven decision making” as a dogmatic methodology. As with everything else at Warp, we want to be pragmatic.
See my article on what I'm looking for here: https://thezbook.com/code-first-vs-product-first
Great design needs to be a core tenet of the company. We are fundamentally trying to build great user experiences and great design is at the heart of that.
If you see something small that is broken – whether it’s in the product, the code, a process, or some other inefficiency in any other part of the company – you are empowered to fix it right then and there. We want a culture of collective ownership and continuous improvement.
If you’re not someone who can fix the issue directly, you should make sure the issue is tracked.
There’s one big caveat, though: if the issue is difficult to fix and the impact is lower than those already prioritized, you should not redirect your main work but track it so we can prioritize it. We generally want to work from our prioritization principles and not continuously redirect.
When in doubt, ask a manager if you should spend time now or come back to it later.
Above all, be pragmatic.