[bcantrill]

Taking these in order:

Our hiring process more or less selects for intrinsic motivation at every stage -- that's very important to us. As for "judging" the output of folks: I would say Oxide is just a more extreme example of something that one sees in lots of places, where it is exceedingly difficult (and dangerous!) to make those kinds of comparisons. Not only because the work is highly varied (though certainly that) and not only because it is deeply technical (though that too!), but also because we rely so much on helping one another out. How does one evaluate that? And perhaps a blunter question: what would be the purpose of that evaluation?

When I talk about "seeing someone contribute to the company as much as anyone else", I very much mean in the future tense -- namely, during the hiring process. I think it's not an unfair characterization to say that we would much rather take the energy typically wasted on comp, and spend that energy on careful hiring.

As for more On the Metal, yes definitely: Steve, Jess, and I very much look forward to being vaccinated and back in the garage!

[gmatejka]

Thanks for your input, glad to see a company actually care about principles and not just use them as a break room poster.

Please keep these blog posts coming. Really shows people Oxide stands for something and what your values look like in practice.

Makes up and coming engineers happy when they feel like some tech companies will actually care about them as a human.