A Newbie's Guide to Symph Words

New hires at Symph often get a small surprise once they realize Symph is not a typical tech company. So we listed the Symph words and practices that most companies don't have, with what each one means. If you want to join us full-time or as an intern, you might want to take note.

Symph Meets

Symph Meets are our team meetings every Friday. Everyone should be there, and no one should be late.

In these meetings we follow up on project operations, introduce new processes, watch live Symph sessions and jawdrop at card tricks that may or may not epicly fail. Every Friday we also get bits of wisdom from the brains and hearts of our dear founders, which other people pay sums of money for.

We have a whole blog series on the topics from these meetings, and we hope you find them inspiring. Here is one of them.

ThursDevs

ThursDevs is the weekly internal huddle of our developers. They talk about new topics in tech, demo the work they've done, run mini workshops on new tech, brainstorm how the development team can improve, and more.

A disclaimer on the photo: ThursDevs may or may not have snacks every session.

Frontend Fridays

Frontend Fridays is ThursDevs for our design team. Every week our designers sync up to run workshops for the team, plan community events focused on design, set collective OKRs, improve design team processes and more. Topics range from Basics of Adobe Lightroom to Coding UI with Flutter, and the creative juices flow freely on Frontend Fridays.

Manage Mondays

Our developers and designers have weekly huddles, and so do our managers. Manage Mondays is for our project managers and our sales and marketing managers. They cover a broad range of topics, from how we can improve our project onboarding process to role-playing kick-off sessions with new clients, so we can all see the best practices and the things to work on.

Just another Manage Monday! (Sing it)

Symph Sessions

At Symph, the hands that code on the keyboard also play the keyboard, if you get what we mean.

Symphers are more than coders, designers or project managers. Symph Sessions are jam sessions that give the stage to our musically inclined teammates, who serenade us with the music they play. We believe people who do what they love are more driven to love what they do, and we get to watch live bands for free.

Symph Space

The Symph office is not much like most company offices, and we call it the Symph space.

We value collaboration and creativity, among many other things. That is why people at Symph don't have their own private offices (not even our CEO) or even cubicles. We're not saying that kind of structure hinders collaboration. We believe a space with fewer barriers helps our teamwork and productivity.

As for creativity, the Symph space could already pass for an adult playground. For a clearer picture of what we mean, watch the video we described in this blog post.

We work hard and play hard, and these things give us a break and help bring out our creative and crazy ideas.

We hope this helps if you want to work with us. If you want to intern at Symph, you can learn how to apply here, and we would like to hear what else you want to know about us and our work.