Great people, tech, and mission - Anonymous employee The Washington Post Employee Review

5.0
5 June 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There's a lot I love about working at the Post. But if I had to pick one it's the people. That sounds dorky but it is true. It is a very collegial environment with support and shared efforts and jokes. When something goes wrong we fix it and try to figure out how to make it so it doesn't happen again -- we don't figure out who's to blame and we don't try to hide the mistake. I also love the mission. I could be working on yet another photo sharing app, or I could be helping save democracy. I choose the latter. The technology is great too. Development teams have a lot of autonomy, they can pick the right languages and tools to solve their problem. ARC Publishing is exciting and might be a huge success.

Cons

Things are moving very quickly both internally and with ARC. This results in some minor planning chaos and sometimes building the wrong thing. But in some ways it's like a startup so that comes with the deal.

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