<aside> 💡 This section of our Handbook is dedicating to helping new and potential hires understand how we work, what it looks like, and what our expectations are around performance.
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Due to our distributed nature we avoid using any region-specific time zones (e.g. “Pacific Time / PST”) and default to UTC time as our standard practice. When communicating across the organization, please ensure you are doing so in UTC time. If you are unsure of your UTC timezone you can find it through a quick Google search.
Example
If you live in the Eastern Time Zone you are UTC-4.
As a high-growth, high-trust startup we give our team autonomy over their working hours and schedule. The responsibility that comes with that autonomy is to work as much as you need to in order to get your work done while maintaining quality self care and rest.
There is no concept of "over time" or "regular time;” we don't track time. We trust our team to get their work done in a responsible and efficient manner.
We Work in the Open
Open source culture has created a baseline for ‘working in the open.’ Overall the idea is that our work is done publicly, open to correction or productive criticism, and the burden of output is on you. Generally we see this in lines of code, but as a cultural practice it translates as well. Some examples of working in the open might include: