When I first joined the company, my welcome gift wasn’t a shiny, new laptop. It was a cabinet full of spare server parts. My very first task as a “full stack software engineer” was quite literally stacking full parts together to assemble my work desktop. It was chaotic, scrappy, and not exactly what you’d expect on day one, but it also set the tone for what the company was about: resourcefulness and pitching in wherever needed.
That same spirit carried through in moments like one unforgettable night when our servers went down. Instead of pointing fingers or giving up, everyone (from sales to customer support to engineering) stayed late printing, scanning, and emailing blank source PDF’s to our clients so that they would have what they needed in the morning. It wasn’t the most glamorous solution (that would be an understatement), but it was a telling ordeal. That night we came together and focused on what matters most – our commitment to our clients and our ability to get things done when we work as a team.
Looking back a decade later, we’ve come a long way – the laptops come pre-assembled now, and server reliability isn’t something that keeps us up at night. But the scrappiness, teamwork, and “all-hands-on-deck” spirit from those early days? That’s something we’ve never lost.