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I work for a company where intellectual humility is a core value. It is expected of all of us to be curious and also accepting of being wrong sometimes. I'm in
by fuball63 7y ago
I work for a company where intellectual humility is a core value. It is expected of all of us to be curious and also accepting of being wrong sometimes. I'm in tech, and compared to other places I've worked, there are significantly fewer of the stereotypical pretentious nerd types that are tough to get along with.
Strong opinions, loosely held, is a mantra I use.
- b0afc375b5 7y agoHow does one go about finding such companies?
- EdwardDiego 7y agoHmm, good question. I think I work for such a company, I guess an easy tell would be during an interview coding exercise, if they explicitly invite you to use a search engine or API documentation etc. In a company where people take excessive pride in their intellect, I find that it often manifests in the "What, you don't know this exact thing I don't know?!" attitude you can find in some interviewers (to quote the infamous tweet: "Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.") Likewise, if they want you to write actual code, their culture of intellectual humility will manifest in asking beforehand if you have a preferred tool and making it available, or inviting you to bring your laptop etc. instead of forcing you to write code on a whiteboard (bonus points if they point out every semi-colon you missed), or in their arbitrary editor of choice, complete with customised key-bindings that combine the "best" of Emacs AND Vim.
- fuball63 7y agoI think this is a good start for sure. I had a take home assignment. Also, a lot of the interviewing was personality based, so that was a good sign too.
- fuball63 7y agoI found this company through a friend that worked there, and he just got lucky I think.