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I'm not sure what is unique. Every company has a unique culture. Every new hire changes the company culture with what he/she brings.

Still, one important part for me is ownership. I know that most startups say that already, but I've never worked in a company where I had so much freedom into pushing stuff into production quickly and easily. Ownership grants you freedom, but it also comes with accountability, which is fine, because failures are the only real way to learn.

To illustrate that, I feel like the work I actually do is what I would do on my freetime for fun anyway.

Our culture is made up of our values. The values we share between us are trust, care and excellence. Our values could just be seen as any other written words, but we truly believe in them and it translates into our culture. We live by these written words everyday and incorporate them into our day-to-day operations. Beyond the organizational values, Algolia is really an environment in which you can be yourself. We learn from one another, and it’s all about teamwork and collaboration. We have so many different personalities on the team, and everyone is encouraged to push each other to be better. Our organization is pretty flat, and we let our people take ownership on any projects they want. We are fully transparent with the company because we trust everyone; we share our compensation with the team, and our founders share their monthly update newsletter to the investors with the team.

We have company wide happy hours every Thursday and a live stream that’s always on between the two offices. We encourage travel between the Paris and SF offices so we can see each other in person as much as possible.

Long story short, it might sound cheesy, but it all makes for an open, fun work environment that is unlike anywhere I’ve worked before.

What a good question Mayank. This is not something that is easily answered because it feels like Algolia is a new company every 3-6 months. That being said we do have strong core characteristics like Trust, Honesty, etc... but what I think makes us unique is our ability to openly give and accept feedback - every day feels like we're moving 100mph, which means that everything we do we want it to be perfect. So that being said, we want everyone to be able to be 'challenged' on their proposition of a project or idea and make sure that we look at it from all angles. It has allowed us to really refine and improve the actions that we take on everyday tasks.