What we’ve been doing that has worked well for the last 2.5 years: 1. We do a weekly team meeting that has an open Q&A element to it. Whenever someone new joi

What we’ve been doing that has worked well for the last 2.5 years: 1. We do a weekly team meeting that has an open Q&A element to it. Whenever someone new joins the team, we ask them to do a self-intro sharing hobbies and interests and also a teardown or repair of an electronics product (really specific to us). 2. For regions where we have clusters of people, we bring them together occasionally for work and social activities. 3. We do regular workshops where we bring people together in person, with most of the time not covered by a set meeting agenda. This is massively useful for empathy-building and makes us more effective when remote. 4. We’ve reached a scale where we’re now also introducing random match 1:1s bi-weekly for people to connect with others who they normally wouldn’t (folks can opt out if they want to, but nobody has). You might note that none of these activities (except the teardown) are deliberate culture-builders, but are instead about connection and empathy building. With connections and empathy, you have the scaffolding to make culture stick.