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How was the culture of the “hive mind” developed and maintained in the organisation? I can imagine there are challenges you’ve faced to keep it working

• bob1029 6y ago
  Start small and grow carefully. Not every developer is a good fit for this type of approach and the amount of discipline we require. We actually started looking at an approach where new hires would come in on a 6-12 month contract basis. The whole idea would be that there would be no hard feelings either way at the end if it didn't work out. If both sides felt like this was a good fit, we explore longer-term options with more benefits. The way we do software is unconventional. We are in a very constrained environment from a security perspective. No containers, nothing can be in the cloud, all data must live on the same physical host, software delivery is tricky, etc. These constraints make the work we do somewhat unappealing to a certain crowd of developer who seeks to maximize their exposure to shiny new things. Put differently, we use boring old technologies (with a few exceptions) and set expectations that we are going to continue to use those indefinitely. Any hopes of "mixing things up" should be reserved for future endeavors on our roadmap and personal side projects (which we encourage). I don't think any of this is unreasonable or unrealistic. We are in the business of selling software to other businesses in a sensitive market. We are not making DLC for AAA videogames.