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Ask HN: What companies have publicly available handbooks?
I know of
- Gitlab
- PostHog
Are there any others with publicly available handbooks?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- asdfe2234234 4y agohttps://handbook.sourcegraph.com/ https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/
- nickjj 4y agohttps://basecamp.com/handbook https://basecamp.com/handbook
- simonw 4y agoMy favourite bit of that one is this: https://basecamp.com/handbook/09-how-we-work#in-self-sufficient-independent-teams https://basecamp.com/handbook/09-how-we-work#in-self-suffici... "a single project team should be able to go from idea to deploy as independently as possible"
- nickjj 4y agoYep that's a really good one. Not being blocked helps a lot for getting things done.
- nso95 4y agoValve - https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewE...
- ushakov 4y agohttps://posthog.com/handbook https://posthog.com/handbook
- sphars 4y agoValve: https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/publications https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/publications
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoBy far Valve's handbook is the best, it's original, intelligent and perhaps most importantly: non-clichéd. Most other companies have put out a bunch of platitudes in their mission/philosophy section, though I'm sure they put a lot of effort into it.
- ghiculescu 4y agoTechnically not a handbook, but recently I’m writing up a lot of the ideas we’ve been using to operate Workforce.com @ https://ghiculescu.substack.com https://ghiculescu.substack.com. Hoping to turn it into a real book!
- pvnp 4y agoI enjoyed going through the cal. com handbook [1]. It provides a very high overview of the code base as well if that's of interest to you. There entire company is being built in public so it provides a great level of visibility into their operations [2]. [1] https://handbook.cal.com/ https://handbook.cal.com/ [2] https://cal.com/open https://cal.com/open
- kalendos 4y agoI keep a list of public company handbooks here: https://publish.obsidian.md/davidgasquez/Company+Handbooks https://publish.obsidian.md/davidgasquez/Company+Handbooks.
- Minor49er 4y agoThis whole site has a lot of fascinating links generally. Thanks for sharing this
- MH15 4y agoIt really does. I may have to start doing something like this myself, it's got a different feel than a blog.
- serjester 4y agoGreat link. Highly recommend adding Material UI's handbook - it's exceptionally well put together. https://mui-org.notion.site/Handbook-f086d47e10794d5e839aef9dc67f324b https://mui-org.notion.site/Handbook-f086d47e10794d5e839aef9...
- pyuser583 4y agoThank you so much!
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoDavid, curiosity what is the link about? ( besides handbooks). Is is just a collection of random stuff? Apologies, I did not dig around sufficiently. p.s: I found this interesting: https://publish.obsidian.md/davidgasquez/Rationality https://publish.obsidian.md/davidgasquez/Rationality . Somebody tried to explain what 'rationality' is, without tossing around the word loosely as most people do.
- voxic11 4y agoNot oc but this appears to be a reference to rationality as practiced by the "rationalist movement". You can read more about it at these places: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rationalist-movement https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rationalist-movement https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/46qnWRSR7L2eyNbMA/the-lens-that-sees-its-flaws https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/46qnWRSR7L2eyNbMA/the-lens-t... I like the definition "rationalism is the belief that Eliezer Yudkowsky is the rightful caliph."
- dnw 4y agoGitLab https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
- jonas-w 4y agoNot really publicly available, but an ex employee leaked the LinusTechTips / Linus Media Group employee handbook https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/115ucm3/ltt_isnt_a_great_employer_has_a_lot_of_antilabour/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/115ucm3/ltt_... (at the end of the post)
- jayofdoom 4y agoI think there were some internal docs too, but all Okta's HR stuff is on a public website: https://rewards.okta.com/ https://rewards.okta.com/
- bombcar 4y agoUS Army: https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
- lejboua 4y agoRemote https://handbook.remote.com/ https://handbook.remote.com/
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoHas a whole section on DEI. Make what you want of it. https://remotecom.notion.site/people-Belonging-Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-DEI-4990e36a7d7b4d52a78ca3efb23d718b https://remotecom.notion.site/people-Belonging-Diversity-Equ...
- rcoder 4y agoHashiCorp: https://works.hashicorp.com https://works.hashicorp.com (not exactly an "employee handbook" with HR policies + etc., but a decent look into the intentional culture)
- vippy 4y agoTTS at GSA: https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov (Yes, we got Vim listed on a government website: https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov/tools/text-editors/ https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov/tools/text-editors/)
- MollyRealized 4y agoAre you looking for curiosity's sake, or for models for drafting your own?
- swyx 4y agoairbyte! https://handbook.airbyte.com/ https://handbook.airbyte.com/
- bnchrch 4y agoOne of the better ones around for sure.
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoDEI statement are a big red flag for me: https://handbook.airbyte.com/people/diversity-inclusion-and-belonging https://handbook.airbyte.com/people/diversity-inclusion-and-... DEI = virtue signalling
- swyx 4y agowell then the handbook serves its purpose because we wouldn't want to waste any time interviewing someone triggered by a simple statement of how we do things
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoThe feeling is mutual.
- vadman97 4y agohighlight.io: https://github.com/highlight#our-values https://github.com/highlight#our-values
- hningonworktime 4y agoConvictional: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQFFCUWlf-32D3mVQAhnK9LfyzoRIvm7jfONBuMGKV8u62cgdFKDi7qCXL7bH2YW9UGx5MtpeS19dW9/pub https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQFFCUWlf-32D3mV...
- irrational 4y agoHuh, I work for a huge Fortune 500 company and TIL that we don't really have a unified handbook. If you want to look up something (like paid time off) you have to go find where the web page for that thing is, which is probably in an entirely different part of the intranet site from something else (like official holidays).
- mguerville 4y agoThat’s likely because at a F500 you have a lot of variation between jurisdictions (states, or worse nations) on pretty fundamental things like PTO, overtime, etc. So each has its own set of rules and HR helps communicate them (via handbook or other means like a sharepoint site or slack channel)
- vasco 4y agoHotjar: https://hotjar.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/REC/pages/269942983/Team+Manual+Public https://hotjar.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/REC/pages/269942983...
- connordoner 4y agoBasecamp: https://basecamp.com/handbook https://basecamp.com/handbook.
- erenst 4y agoNiteo: https://github.com/teamniteo/handbook https://github.com/teamniteo/handbook
- rswerve 4y agoTrussworks https://guide.truss.works/ https://guide.truss.works/ We're a remote-first consultancy, and that link includes our handbook, onboarding guide, and guidelines for open-sourcing our work.
- Jehuty64 4y agoInfinum - digital agency | https://infinum.com/handbook/ https://infinum.com/handbook/ Every team (Android, iOS, Frontend, .NET, Design, Flutter, Rails, WordPress) has their own.
- ericrallen 4y agoValve: https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/publications https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/publications
- bobbbbbbbbb 4y agoStudent, tradesman, expert. Some, many and very few, reach enlightenment, and invent stuff. Many and very few corporations, get the opportunity to intercept the creation = legally, according to "corporate laws", opposite to "man laws", copyright those creations. Many and very few of those inventions end up written in a book. Many Books and very few are real. This is why no company can have publicly available handbook - unless this company follows some of the creative commons laws.
- shivam-baghla 4y agoI know Gitlab has publish their completely remote culture handbook.