We are engineers, making the tools we always wanted

We are a small team and while we serve large companies, we can’t do what years-old big-tech corporations do — and we believe that’s a good thing. We can’t buy an F1 sponsorship or a Super Bowl ad, but we can sponsor a tech blogger to start her side hustle.

Doing a lot with little is our think different. It means we have to find original and better ways of doing things, not replicating how they have always been done. It’s this David-like approach that makes us succeed even in the Goliath-like challenges.

Being nice to each other is a vital value of the company we all want to work at. There is no space for “brilliant jerks”. If you are smart, you also have to be kind. Well-meant feedback can always be delivered with respect.

We nurture a culture of quiet confidence and open humbleness. There is no space for selfishness on our team. We appreciate the privilege of working with each other and lift each other up.

We won’t compromise on what we believe in to cut corners. We are in this for the long run and want to win right, even if that means taking the harder path. This applies to not just treating our people well but also to how we do business with everyone outside the company.

We trust our people to do what is best for the company and promote freedom to act as they believe is best. It’s better to move fast than to never ship – We run experiments and are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.

We believe that people do their best work when being trusted, empowered, and able to make a difference. That’s why we share almost everything internally — be it a strategy decision, revenue chart, or competition insight. This way, anyone on the team can make a well-informed decision in the context of the whole company.

We don’t push unnecessary rules or processes and rely on independent reasoning and common sense. We trust our team to judge what is right for Better Stack.

We hire A players and let them make the decisions independently; it’s not our goal to micromanage. Our goal is to get out of your way and let you do your best work.