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Engineering Values

A collection of practices, behaviours, and interactions that make up the culture of our work environment.

Andela's values are Excellence, Passion, Integrity, and Collaboration (EPIC).

What does it mean to be an EPIC Engineer at Andela?

Excellence

• We plan, execute and deliver on time
• We aspire and strive to reach for mastery of our craft
• We don’t sacrifice quality for velocity
• We strive for simplicity

Passion

• We learn with curiosity
• We remain resilient & persistent
• We empathize with our users and optimize for value delivery
• We actively look for opportunities to better serve our users

Integrity

• We don’t over-engineer and we don’t cut corners
• We trust each other to take ownership without being prompted to
• We share our concerns, blockers, failures, and successes freely and openly
• We avoid the blame game, yet don’t shy away from giving or receiving hard feedback

Collaboration

• We put the team before ourselves
• We are remote and distributed first
• We over-communicate to stay informed
• We are consistent and intentional about knowledge sharing
• We collaboratively create solutions and resolve issues