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Working at a successful tech company is a team sport. Cohesion and hard work are more important than some ninja JavaScript developer.

Lionel Messi is an outstanding footballer, but an even better team player. He will retire, but FC Barcelona will continue to succeed.

Sure, two heads are better than one; but, pair programming is not only about producing better code. We find pairing to be the most effective way to train new engineers. There's no better way to learn than spending 8 hours a day pairing with a professional.

Pairing is also super useful at prevent information silos. We reduce ourbus factor by ensuring every part of the system has two eyes looking at it.

KMK hires great engineers, but we don't stop there. We collect and distill peer feedback into actionable reviews for all of our engineers. Honest & constructive feedback is one of the best ways to level-up, which is why we give it regularly.

Designers, product managers, and engineers at KMK actively work on breaking features down into small releases. Why? This let's us get our work in front of real users sooner and that let's us respond to their feedback. That's what being agile is all about.

TDD is a rhythm that helps us maintain steady forward progress. Not only does it reduce the amount of time we spend on bugs, but it improves the design of our code! Testable code needs to be simple, modular, and well refactored — clean code.

Life is too short to spend time working on tedious tasks. That's why we have automated our: test suites, deployments, server scaling, analytic alerts, and much more.

We want people to have multi-year careers at KMK. This requires a work-life balance.

8 hours of productivity is more valuable than 16 hours of some work, facebook, email, etc. Strict work hours ensure strict free time.