There’s a literal version of this and a deep thoughts version. A middling one which is underconsidered: bathrooms are a proof-of-work. So much has to be right about an organization to deliver a clean bathroom consistently. *Anyone* can instantly assess success 99.8% accurately.https://twitter.com/bendhalpern/status/1021904966028414977 …
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There was a story a number of years ago at AppAmaGooBookSoft which showed an external physical logo at HQ covered in some form of slime or algae. Seeing that immediately caused this Japanese salaryman to degrade estimate of organizational competence.
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“Why?” Because hundreds of executives passed that sign every day and not one went to the facilities closet and filled a bucket of soap and water.
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Having been a part of a company that couldn’t keep a bathroom clean and then morphed over ~1 year to doing it consistently... This is a very good gauge to look at. Certainly not the only one, but one to look at nonetheless.
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1 year ago: poor bathroom conditions, no reimbursement policy, took 4 days to recover from dead laptop. Today: above average cleanliness, reimbursement policy that is super easy, takes 4 hours to recover from dead laptop.
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I know one boot camp that explicitly instructs students to check out the condition of the bathrooms during interviews.
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Mine is how clean the kitchen is. You can tell how much people give a shit by how clean they keep the kitchen, and I don’t mean by plastering the walls with notices
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You see this a lot in shared office spaces too. It is rather frustrating actually. It takes very little effort to clean your cutlery and bowls after you've eaten. Yet otherwise responsible professionals seem to consistently fail to do this.
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I have learned to ask how long it will take me to set up my dev machine initially. Too long and they have a culture of allowing technical cruft to build up.
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What's a good metric for remote companies?
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What is "orderly monthly close" here? Does this mean "I get my paycheck when I expect to", or that the books are more generally in regular and good order?
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I was wondering this too. I am in the finance world of engineering so for me, it is actual accounting monthly close
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