I had interviewed for the backend engineering internship role at Atlan in May 2021 and managed to get in. I just wanted to share my experience and some tips around the same. tl;dr I had applied for the opening via AngelList, and I sent in my resume and a cover letter explaining why I thought I was a good fit. After that I got…
What Silicon Valley tells us about building great teams When many people think of Silicon Valley, they think of current tech giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. But its story actually started four decades earlier with far more basic tech — the semiconductor. (This is how the area got its name, since silicon was one of the most widely…
Our Engineering Demos stemmed from a simple question — “How can we share knowledge among our engineers better?” All of our engineers were working on different, complex products, but they usually had knowledge that could help each other out. For example, we didn’t need to build completely different front-end and backend developer workflows, or unique infrastructure for Collect (our mobile…
We are always thinking deeply about the “dent” Atlan could leave on the universe. We’re asking ourselves, “What would it take to create a company that would have relevance for hundreds of years?” We are moving rapidly from our childhood days into adolescence — an interesting time, where one typically has a strong sense of self and is now battling…
In 2016, we put down our 10 (base 10) Engineering Commandments, the values that our Engineering Team uses to guide its work. We didn’t use a long, complex process to create them. One of our first engineers sat down and took some time to articulate the ideas that we should use to guide our decisions, all based on industry best…
Note: This blog was updated in September 2019 with the latest information about our people-ops processes. We’re growing up here at Atlan! Our numbers have grown, and we’re always preparing for new additions. As we grow, we’ve been pushing hard to make sure that we create an inclusive environment of growth and belonging for everyone who joins us. We’ve realized…
Note: This blog was updated in August 2019 with the latest information about our team and cultural values. In the last few years, we scaled our products, welcomed hundreds of humans of data to our community, powered data teams around the world, and celebrated countless milestones. The people who find their way to our team are extraordinarily diverse, yet they’re all…
