Q&A With O'Reilly Media Employees

The learning platform is growing. The unit sales are declining, but that's the direction the company wants to go.

People who are demonstrably competent .

Super friendly. The friendliest non-judgiest people I've ever worked with.

I would try harder to figure out why we don't get more diversity in our applicants.

Building a better learning platform.

I don't know much about how to evaluate benefits, but when talking about them to others, people tell me I have it good.

I once suggested I should finish something up on the weekend and everyone, including my managers, said "No!".

Really great. Sick time doesn't count against vacation, and we have a week off after Christmas.

Probably depends on your team, but for me it's just fast enough to stay motivated, but not uncomfortable. I can rely on my managers to make sure the work assigned is achievable in a reasonable amount of time.

Working with talented, competent, and **kind** people.

The work is challenging because it's a big system with a lot of moving parts, but we also support each other very well. We are also encouraged to challenge ourselves when setting our goals.

Not difficult at all.

Good communication skills are very important since we are a distributed team.

Secure enough that I haven't thought about how secure I feel.

I can only speak to the engineering team, where morale seems to me to be well above average. Everyone seems to like each other and have confidence in each other. Communication is very open.

Pretty open at the Boston office. Not sure about Sebastopol, but probably the same. Many of us work remotely.

Some, but not as much as I'd like to see. I do know we are trying very hard to improve it. The culture is certainly inclusive, but I guess we have some things to learn about encouraging diverse applicants.

There isn't anything I've learned that would have changed my mind about joining. The most surprising thing though is how much we change things around.