We're still a very small team at Roam, but I'm super proud that we've built an incredibly high trust and genuinely loving environment with people from very diverse backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, political and religious beliefs.
Some of the character traits we really respect are curiosity, grit, openness, and desire to work closely on a shared mission with people who've had very different life experiences.
If you aren't ok working with people whose family members have been deported, with queer people, atheists, feminists, people who care deeply about social justice, AND evangelical Christians, AND red state Republicans, AND heretics of all stripes...
@Roamresearch is not for you.
@Roamresearch is not for you.
We've got very low tolerance for people with very low tolerance.
If you can tolerate anything except the "outgroup," our stance is that that counts as being very low tolerance.
If you can tolerate anything except the "outgroup," our stance is that that counts as being very low tolerance.
And yes - we are still learning as a company and as individuals how to translate these values into specific contexts like interviewing and outbound recruiting, and sometimes in our attempt to live our values, we don't always convey the perceptions we intend.
It does make me sad to learn that I personally upset some people I reached out to to see about bringing onto our team in the past, people whose work I respect, and whose opinions I value.
I know what it's like to feel like an outsider, did not intend to make others feel same way
I know what it's like to feel like an outsider, did not intend to make others feel same way
