Engineering culture: What makes for a great fit?

Built In LA is an online community of news, events and jobs for Los Angeles area startups and tech companies. Bridg partners with Built In LA to promote new engineering, development, account services, sales and marketing career opportunities at our HQ in West LA. John Siegel asked three local tech engineering teams what qualities they were looking for in new recruits.

Here are their answers.

From the article on Built In LA:

What is it like being a member of Bridg’s engineering team?

You get to work with an innovative team while learning and working on advanced technologies and instilling software engineering best practices.

What are some fun traditions the team enjoys?

Aside from the monthly and quarterly company outings, the engineering team has a weekly internal happy hour.

How does the team collaborate?

We work on our projects in an open environment, which helps facilitate easy communication. We’re very much transparency-oriented, reflected by the weekly all-hands meeting, so everyone in the company understands which projects we’re working on together and we can receive feedback from all departments.

What sort of qualifications does the right Bridg applicant possess?

The ideal qualities of an engineering applicant are self-motivation, a high sense of ownership, as well as a desire and eagerness to learn and grow with advanced tech. Of course, you have to be a team player, as well.

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About Bridg

Our mission is to the build the most trusted, most inspirational and easiest to use data and digital engagement software for brick-&-mortar marketers.

Bridg was founded in 2012 by Amit Jain around a simple idea: give restaurant and retail chains the same level of customer insight and ability to digitally engage as data-savvy online retailers like Amazon.

We know that real-world business still generate 90% of sales. Empowering CMOs at these businesses is our passion.