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From Human-Led to AI-Native: How We Transformed Our CX Organization in 9 Months
Three months ago, we launched what we believe is the world's first AI-native customer success organization. Here's what we learned about transforming not just workflows, but the fundamental nature of…
Voices of Atlan: Advice We'd Give Our Younger Selves
One Day, I Asked Our First Female Engineer… One day, I asked our first female engineer at Atlan how things were going. Her response (Voices of Atlan) made me the proudest: "I've been in companies…
The Seven Pillars of Platform Team: Core Values That Guide the Development of a Technology Platform
The Seven Pillars of Platform Team is a set of core values that guide the development of our technology platform. They include scalability, reliability, security, innovation, affordability,…
Interview Experience: Backend Engineering Internship at Atlan
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…
Humans of Atlan: Gaurav Singh
Atlan is all about the humans of data. But ever wondered about the people behind the vision? Who are the humans of Atlan and what do they do? To answer these questions and more, we're starting off a…
What Does "Culture" Feel Like?
Culture is one of those words that gets thrown around everywhere. It comes up on the list of casually used buzzwords almost as frequently as "artificial intelligence" and "machine learning". But I…
Atlan Internships: The Why, What and Who Answered
Note: This blog was last updated in August 2019 with the latest information about our internships. "Intern, who?" This is the answer, or a question, from Atlan interns if anybody refers to them as…
Going from Great People to Greater Teams: How We Think About Growth at Atlan
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…
Our 10 Engineering Commandments
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…
Engineering Demos: How We Share Our Knowledge and Build a Better Engineering Culture
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…
People as a Moat: What Startups Can Learn from McKinsey About Building a Strong Company
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…
How We Support Our People from Day One
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…
How We Live Our Cultural Values Every Day
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…
Interested in Joining the Atlan Team? Here's What You Need to Do.
Note: This blog was last updated in August 2019 with the latest information about our hiring process. At Atlan, we are a team of engineers, data scientists and entrepreneurs united by a common…
Want to Land an Internship at Atlan? Here's What It Takes.
Note: This blog was last updated in August 2019 with the latest information about our internship hiring process. At Atlan, we hire interns for core functions like building apps, business development,…
The Internet of Coffee: Our Experience Building a Wifi Coffee Maker
Here at Atlan, we've begun using Internet-of-Things technology to research solutions for some of the world's most pressing problems: monitoring pollution, conserving energy, protecting against…
Android Development for the Rural World: A How-To Guide
Building for the "next billion" is a challenge, thanks to difficulties posed by the lack of internet, electricity, and low-cost devices. At Atlan, we set out to build an Android data collection…