Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values

Re:Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values by lynnetye on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:23PM (#19235272)

Key Values' staff is just me, Lynne. (Hi there!) Companies self-select the 8 values that best describe their engineering culture, and then I work closely w/ them to qualify them. All of the content is curated, and it takes a lot of time, care, and thought to put together.

To answer the original question (Who decides whether they meet each of the criteria?), the answer is you, the reader. "Work/life balance" can mean any number of things, and people often forget that there are countless ways to define a given term. The goal is for teams to describe what it means to them and let interested applicants decide whether it resonates w/ them.

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Re:Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values by burfog on Saturday February 23, 2019 @06:32PM (#19236091)

Besides not having everything ALL IN UPPERCASE SHOUTING UNREADABLE I'd like to see:

dogs at work

patriotic

IQ > EQ

asperger's tolerant

stability > risk-taking

no inclusion/diversity shaming

not taking work home

short work hours

no wellness shaming

open floor plan

offices with doors

life-critical (autopilot, pacemaker, etc.)

uses waterfall methodologies

uses proven technologies

slow-paced environment

long-term stable company size

does timecards

works for military

hires felons

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Re:Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values by ambicapter on Saturday February 23, 2019 @11:55PM (#19237203)

> no wellness shaming

What does this mean?

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Re:Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values by burfog on Sunday February 24, 2019 @01:35AM (#19237440)

Some people really like donuts and beer. Some people smoke. Some people are fat.

Many companies pester people about health habits.

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Re:Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values by creato on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:59AM (#19238105)

That's really the insurance company providing the health coverage pestering people.

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Re:Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values by ddebernardy on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:38PM (#19235625)

Out of curiosity, how do you deal with (the many) companies that say their values are A, B, C when they're actually X, Y, Z? (I don't want to name shame prior companies I've worked with but this mismatch struck me as a fairly common occurrence.)

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Re:Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values by DyslexicAtheist on Sunday February 24, 2019 @05:57AM (#19238099)

my guess is not at all. it depends on how he charges for the service. since it's not applicants or job seekers paying, the agenda is set by their clients. no matter what the marketing says the values and how it is optimized gets defined by those who pay.

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Re:Key Values – Find Engineering Teams That Share Your Values by tysonzni on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:24PM (#19235561)

I think it makes sense to ask companies to explicitly list cultural values they prioritize the most as well as what they value the least. Evaluating/creating a company culture is in a way really about understanding what the tradeoffs and sacrifices are.

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