Principles.md

TuneIn core values

We bleed teal

• We are transparent
• We are passionate
• We have fun
• We love TuneIn

We are humble

We are hungry

We are service oriented

• We collaborate and work together for the common good

Engineering Principles

We make time for quality

• We empower quality and build it into the process
• We review our designs, our code, and our processes
• We establish and follow our own best practices
• We optimize for readability
• We leave code better than when we found it
• We prioritize and measure testing
• We 'own' issues and actively seek to destroy the root cause
• We believe choosing quality today makes us happy and productive tomorrow
• We care about TuneIn as a whole

We are agile and pragmatic

• We build value
• We seek to demo early and often
• We decide quickly; we believe perfect is enemy of good
• We learn and iterate - we aim to only make new mistakes
• We don’t reinvent the wheel
• We adapt to critical events and bring a sense of urgency
• We volunteer regularly

We keep it simple

• We simplify both in terms of code and product
• We ask questions, revisit past assumptions, and reduce complexity
• We automate repeatable tasks
• We actively remove things (code, features, products) that we don't use

We are data driven

• We keep the team informed daily, never any wild surprises

• We make logging and monitoring as important as feature development
• We believe baselining usage/performance allows us to iterate with confidence
• We use metrics as our guide
• We prototype and A/B test to make decisions iteratively

We love getting better

• We embrace progress and are not afraid to challenge our own status quo
• We make time for education - we teach and learn everyday
• We engineer our hiring and performance management practices as thoughtfully as our code
• We are driven by curiosity and geek out over everything
• We have a desire to see our teammates succeed
• We start with why we can instead of why we shouldn't