By @Sam Udotong

We just hired our 50th engineer at Fireflies.ai.

. In Q4 2022, we shipped ~1400 stories to production, shipping 24h around the clock

A common question I receive is how to build a world-wide, world-class engineering team 🌍🌎

Been thinking about this for years.....

Our approach starts with the following high level mentality:

• Reliability is foundational
• Automate as much as possible
• Quantify everything
• Make data-driven decisions
• Measure results, not time
• Build autonomous teams
• Focus on highly efficient work
• Invest for the long term

With the goal of intentionally supporting global engineering in every timezone, we built this mentality into our culture. These are the important principles that we harp on continuously:

• Ownership
• Accountability
• Asynchronous work
• Definition of "done"