OUR ETHOS
Homebrew for Enterprises with a Remote-First Culture
At Workbrew we are building the features that companies need on top of Homebrew, the most popular package manager on macOS (and growing on Linux). Workbrew provides commercial support and MDM integration and will in future provide many other features around Homebrew needed by the enterprise.
At Workbrew we work hard but (usually) not long.
We value getting things done quickly and then being able to spend time with our friends, family and hobbies. We know that “time spent working” is an exceptionally poor metric for output, happiness or success.
Even amongst our founders: we are an international company. We do not have an office. We never will have an office attended weekly by all founders. We are truly remote first. When a meeting can instead be a document, pull request or a Slack message: it is. That said, we know that constant work notifications outside of your working hours are bad for productivity so we don’t want or expect you to be connected 24/7 to e.g. Slack.
Our founders have been working remotely for collectively over 30 years. Through this we’ve learned: humans like meeting other humans in person. It helps us bond and work better together. If you’re employed full-time here: you should be prepared to meet some other Workbrew co-workers in person at least once a year (most likely around the Homebrew AGM in February in Brussels at FOSDEM).
Founders
COO
Homebrew PLC
Vanessa Gennarelli
Vanessa is the author of "Surviving Change at Work" and has worked across instructional design, developer education and business leadership at Scratch (MIT), GitHub and elsewhere.
CEO
Homebrew Contributor
John Britton
John has spent his entire career helping developers be more successful. Early employee at Twilio and GitHub, he's been a Homebrew contributor since 2014 and user and superfan since 2009.
CTO
Homebrew Project Leader
Mike McQuaid
Mike is Homebrew's Project Leader, longest tenured maintainer (since 2009) , the most active contributor to Homebrew/brew and spent 10 years at GitHub, leaving as a principal engineer.
Team
PRODUCT ENGINEER
Bo Anderson
Homebrew TSC and maintainer since 2019.
PRODUCT ENGINEER
Carlo Cabrera
Homebrew maintainer since 2021.
PRODUCT ENGINEER
Anup Narkhede
Rails programmer since 2006.
PRODUCT ENGINEER
Kristján Oddsson
Software engineer with a strong focus on user experience.
Careers
We're a remote-first team that's spread across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Here's what we value in our work:
We’re building technology in a time when honest and ethical behavior is paramount. If faced between reaching growth goals on the one hand, and upholding principles on the other, choose the honorable path.
Negotiate fairly, in good faith, and keep your commitments. If you must break a commitment, alert the parties promptly and realign.
Be judicious in what we offer. In other words, don’t give away today what you might have to take away tomorrow. If we can’t provide service at a high level of quality, don’t do it. Mistakes are okay, hiding them is not. We can’t learn from mistakes if we don’t openly address them.
Negotiate fairly, in good faith, and keep your commitments. If you must break a commitment, alert the parties promptly and realign.
Be judicious in what we offer. In other words, don’t give away today what you might have to take away tomorrow. If we can’t provide service at a high level of quality, don’t do it. Mistakes are okay, hiding them is not. We can’t learn from mistakes if we don’t openly address them.
We hire adults: how and when you work is up to you. Our performance expectations are outcomes and results, not how often you’re online, or how many meetings you have.
We are a remote company. In exchange, we expect you to travel at least twice a year.
One size does not fit all. The needs of an engineering team will be different from a marketing function, which will be different from a sales team. Instead of blanket policies, we will develop solutions to address the challenges of a role or team.
Look for opportunities that balance mutual benefit and mutual gain.
We are a remote company. In exchange, we expect you to travel at least twice a year.
One size does not fit all. The needs of an engineering team will be different from a marketing function, which will be different from a sales team. Instead of blanket policies, we will develop solutions to address the challenges of a role or team.
Look for opportunities that balance mutual benefit and mutual gain.
Our company exists to help organizations and developers improve their velocity and reduce their cost.
Treat time as capital. Respond promptly. Prioritize unblocking others so they can execute. Do today rather than wait until tomorrow. Decide and move.
Timely feedback makes us more efficient. Provide input quickly so we can course correct, and incrementally improve.
At the seed stage, we will be doing quite a few things manually. Each iteration should be faster and better.
Treat time as capital. Respond promptly. Prioritize unblocking others so they can execute. Do today rather than wait until tomorrow. Decide and move.
Timely feedback makes us more efficient. Provide input quickly so we can course correct, and incrementally improve.
At the seed stage, we will be doing quite a few things manually. Each iteration should be faster and better.
At Workbrew, we balance the autonomy of remote work with the responsibility of owning the outcome.
The founders are responsible for the outcomes of the business, which is a choice we’ve made. We do not expect crew members to work the hours the cofounders do.
Set reasonable expectations: it’s much better to frontload disappointment than to fall short of a deliverable.
Question if it’s time to cut your losses – the sunk cost fallacy can creep in when we get too attached.
The founders are responsible for the outcomes of the business, which is a choice we’ve made. We do not expect crew members to work the hours the cofounders do.
Set reasonable expectations: it’s much better to frontload disappointment than to fall short of a deliverable.
Question if it’s time to cut your losses – the sunk cost fallacy can creep in when we get too attached.
We are the caretakers of our company, brand, employees, and software.
Each of us will do what needs to be done even if sometimes undesirable (a.k.a “take out the trash”).
Operate on “price to nice” ratio: investments should have an outsized impact. For any spend, agree with stakeholders on a budget, and report ROI.
Crew members should distribute risk so projects do not have single points of failure. “Going it alone” or “rogue” or “hero syndrome” is an unacceptable approach to risk.
Each of us will do what needs to be done even if sometimes undesirable (a.k.a “take out the trash”).
Operate on “price to nice” ratio: investments should have an outsized impact. For any spend, agree with stakeholders on a budget, and report ROI.
Crew members should distribute risk so projects do not have single points of failure. “Going it alone” or “rogue” or “hero syndrome” is an unacceptable approach to risk.
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