Flatiron Application
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my internships, it’s this—I’m most productive and engaged with my work when my own morals and values are completely in sync with the company’s culture. Everything else follows from those first few well-defined principles.
I feel that way about Flatiron’s values—as someone whose two current biggest goals in life are to improve every day and be a good person, I see how I would be totally at home with “Be kind” and “Learn, teach and grow” as guiding directives at my workplace. I’m especially enamored by “Seek feedback at 30%” as a core value—in my prior internships, I’ve sometimes failed to seek feedback early, being hesitant to push out unfinished work, and only realized later how much smoother things would’ve been if I had iterated quicker. I’m really impressed that Flatiron has identified the importance of that and made it a company-wide cultural mandate, so no one feels afraid or awkward to ask for feedback when their work isn’t quite finished. To me, that’s the sign of a company that tries as hard as it can to create a productive and fulfilling workplace for its employees, which is why I’m really excited about Flatiron.
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