Culture and benefits at Exaptive

An excerpt from our company culture document: Exaptive is a company that relishes depth and breadth of personality. We enjoy being challenged. We like kindness. We relish spirited, respectful disagreement. We recognize each other’s hard work, talent, and sacrifices. Our successes and failures are collective. We err on the side of transparency and communication. When we don’t share something, it’s because we are respecting the law or others’ privacy. Sometimes we only share something passively to protect each other’s need to focus. The purpose of process is to minimize ambiguity, maximize the flow of expertise, and to clear a path for getting things done. If process limits productivity and creativity, the process is failing. No process is sacred. Each of us will be growing professionally and personally frequently, if not always. Learning new things, being challenged, and being outside our comfort zone is a part of working at Exaptive. Those who value security more than growth probably won’t be satisfied working here. There will be times we do things we don’t enjoy on behalf of the team. We strive to make that worth it, because of our belief in the larger endeavor. We expect each other to be effective, to have a sense of ownership, and to be looking for ways to get things done. We expect each other to have good judgment. Most decisions will involve trade-offs. We take smart risks and question the norm periodically. We expect each other to be adaptable and curious. We hire people who are smarter in some respect than we already are. We expect each other to be good teammates. We expect to have each other’s backs and to disagree plainly, in the spirit of mutual respect. We celebrate our collective wins. We are mindful of ego. We expect each other to communicate early and often, and we expect each other to be available and to listen. We do not value brilliant jerks.