Connected reviews

Thanks so much for taking the time to write such a thoughtful review. It means a lot to me that you’re learning and growing at Connected. It’s my priority that all engineers are engaged and challenged and that they are able to enjoy the office culture. I’m particularly happy to see you highlight the transparency within the company. We are unique as a “tech company” in terms of our engineering practices and our 9 to 6 office hours. We believe our engineering practices (including pair programming) result in better quality, a more sustainable pace, and an extremely collaborative engineering culture. We would love to talk more about this if you have some ideas for improvement! Our office hours are designed so that we can spend focused time building better products together and eliminate the overtime work that occurs in rapidly growing companies like ours. We are flexible for team members to attend appointments and commitments as we value life outside of work. Let’s chat if you have new ideas on how we can ensure a sustainable pace and collaborative culture across all our teams. Connected is focused on both Innovation and Delivery projects for a very important reason: we must do both if we hope to be great at either one. Along the same lines, we believe that individuals at Connected must get experience doing both if they hope to be great at either one. It’s this end-to-end experience that separates us (and our team) from other dev-only or creative-only firms in the marketplace. I think we should take pride in strong delivery since most software projects fail and we’re in a small minority of companies that have such a high success rate. All of this said, if you prefer more innovation-focused projects, come let Damian or me know. We’d be happy to focus some more of your time on innovation-focused work :) Thanks again for your very detailed and constructive review!