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SWING DEV
Culture Deck
v0.3

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Be Curious.
Don’t be afraid to use your own solution if you
believe in it, even if it’s not included in
“best practices”.

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Be Curious.
Don’t assume you are less brilliant than authors of
commercial or open-source software.
You are not.
You can help the community buy finding and fixing bugs.

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Be Curious.
Don’t be afraid to experiment
with new technologies, frameworks or solutions,
even if everything will go to waste later.

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Be Curious.
Don’t assume you understand client’s business better than they do.
Dig deeper, ask questions and don’t rely on your intuition.
If you still believe you are right, you probably are.

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Be Curious.
Don’t do things some way “because this is how it’s done”.
Reason by first principles.
(See this video of Elon Musk taking about this)

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Help Others
Never ever in any situation use offensive words
towards anybody, especially your teammates.

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Help Others
You win and lose as a team, not as team members.

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Help Others
Criticism is very often not helpful!
(Read HBR piece on this)

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Help Others
Always try to influence others by positive
behaviour, not by criticising their approach.
!
Lead by example, if needed put extra effort to
fix your teammate’s mistake.

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Help Others
You are not your code!
Never call someone “stupid” because of code
or other work products he committed.
Try to explain how to do things better.

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Build Relationships and Trust
Be trustworthy. Don’t be too quick with promises.
Deliver on things and dates you agreed upon.

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Build Relationships and Trust
Treat everybody with respect.
Try to understand different points of view.

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Love What You Do
If anything blocks you from being
absolutely passionate
about your work let us know
immediately.

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Love What You Do
We all enjoy the journey,
not only the end goal.

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We value quality over quantity.
Thus we are not and we do not aim to be “big” company.
We grow organically making sure that our culture and quality standards are maintained.
This might mean that sometimes our clients need to wait longer,
but we make sure that the end result is worth it.

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We devote time to do things right
and repay technical debt.
This the cornerstone of our passion for quality.

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We devote time to do things right
and repay technical debt.
Striving for best quality makes sense as long as it’s aligned with client’s interests.
If time-to-market is more important we align our goals with client’s.

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We devote time to do things right
and repay technical debt.
We never compromise on quality
when building own products.

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We develop unique, long-lasting
relationships with our clients.
Most of our clients work with us for more than 6 months.
We believe that good will is worth much more than any
amount of money.

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There are no non-technical idiot
managers.
We make sure that no one without proper technical
knowledge will not make decisions regarding development,
especially schedule and scope.

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We treat ourselves on Fridays.
We cook breakfast for the whole team,
using delicious organic ingredients.

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We treat ourselves on Fridays.
We prepare presentations about interesting
stuff, we give ourselves some time to discuss
what bothers and inspires us.

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Looking for a development team?
Our skills
!
• iOS and Android
• Backend APIs and infrastructure
• Rich, highly interactive web frontend

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Looking for a development team?
Email me at marcin@swingdev.io