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Gusto

Payroll, Benefits, and HR for Modern Companies

San Francisco, Denver, New York City, or Remote
Pairing is a core part of the day-to-day for engineers at Gusto.

Our engineering culture is built upon camaraderie and great ideas. We have dedicated pairing stations around the office to onboard new teammates and review code, demo days where we share our latest projects, and quarterly hackathons to dive into and ship new features.

Our interviews also involve pair-programming, where candidates partner with the interviewer on a practical programming task, often in our codebase. The interview helps us assess how the candidates might collaborate on our team.

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18 Open Positions
Sparrow

End-to-end employee leave management

San Francisco, CA or Remote (US)
Pairing is a core part of our culture and an investment in everyone’s growth.

We’ve always done regular pair programming on a weekly basis where front and backend engineers work on something together. However, we’ve actually found that upping the frequency of pairing will benefit us even more. In the future, engineers who join Sparrow can expect to pair 2 or 3 days a week – and it won’t always be with the same person. We plan to rotate pairing partners, so you’ll spend a half or full day with someone new each time. This ensures we create an inclusive environment and get to know one another better. It could be that one person starts the feature and the other person finishes it so we can avoid situations where only one person fully understands what’s happening. We believe this makes us more efficient and a stronger, more cohesive team. Ultimately, we view it as an investment in everyone’s growth.

Pairing is so important to us that we screen for it in interviews. We recognize there are times when engineers prefer to have uninterrupted clear working time, so we strive to have a healthy balance. That said, if you're a lone wolf who never wants to pair, this probably isn’t the place for you. On the other hand, if you’ve never paired before but are open to it, that’s not a disqualifier at all, and we’d love to hear from you!

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3 Open Positions
CircleCI

Continuous integration and delivery platform

Distributed across the US, Canada, Ireland, UK, Germany, Japan
Our teams value close collaboration.

The majority of engineering folks work remotely and not from an office, so pair programming is typically virtually (even during non-COVID times). As a distributed company, pair programming helps build and strengthen relationships among teammates. It helps us avoid knowledge silos, distribute information, and serves as a means of quality assurance. We’ve found it’s also a really great tool for onboarding new hires. Almost all teams at CircleCI pair some of the time, but how much varies from team to team depending on personal preferences and timezone distributions.

We also understand you can’t pair effectively through an entire work day. Teams use pragmatic approaches, with a mix of pair programming and solo work time. Some teams also do mobbing sessions. At the end of the day, cowboy coders don’t help us scale, which is why we’re looking for people who are willing to learn from one another and level up via pair programming as needed.

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18 Open Positions
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Engineering teams that have a strong pairing culture

Pairing is a core part of the day-to-day for engineers at Gusto.

Pairing is a core part of our culture and an investment in everyone’s growth.

Our teams value close collaboration.

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