Awesome Culture

A curated list of resources for nurturing awesome tech, design and product culture. Inspired by the awesome-* projects.

There are other awesome-culture lists but I found mine was quite different. Selected resources are the ones I refer to and share again and again. List will evolve. Feel free to contribute! Please follow the pull request model ;)

Table of Contents

• Writing your JD
• Hiring
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Design Roles
• Design Culture
• Technical Culture
• Team Culture
• Manager Culture
• Selecting Partners

Writing your JD

• Your tech job posting is broken: here's how to fix it
• How to Write a Job Ad (That People Actually Want to Apply For)
• How To Take Gender Bias Out Of Your Job Ads
• Gender Decoder for Job Ads
• Textio Hire
• CV of Failures

Hiring

• A guide to empathetic hiring processes
• How to make tech interviews a little less awful
• Thread on hiring anti patterns

Diversity and Inclusion

• So you just learned
• Project Include
• Transgender Inclusion
• Key concepts and advice - Twitter thread from @jenistyping

Design Roles

• Australia's design capability gap
• MVP for design
• Buzzfeed's Product Design Roles V3
• BuzzFeed Design documentation on Github

Design Culture

• The Designer's Growth Model
• Using the 30–60–90 Framework for Design Critique

Technical Culture

• Unlearning toxic behaviors in a code review culture
• An engineer's bill of rights and responsibilities
• Square's Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers

Team Culture

• More sleep + less work = better business results
• Team Handbook
• Talk to Spot

Manager Culture

• Manager's bill of responsibilities and rights
• Resources & Tools for Managers

Selecting Partners

• The Gut Check - Work better and happier by formalizing your feelings