How do you operationalize a company culture in a remote or hybrid environment? Is it possible to maintain a strong, positive culture through hyper growth? How do you teach company values?
Amy Reichanadter, Chief People Officer at Databricks, helped establish, build and maintain excellent company culture as the business grew from 500 employees to over 5,500 in just a few years.
With additional growth expected, Amy is confident that employees will retain alignment and continue fostering the data-driven culture. That’s because she’s used her position as a people leader to scientifically and systematically study company values, and then educate the business about what it takes to be successful there.
“That’s really what employees are seeking,” Amy told True Builders host Josh Withers, “They want the roadmap for success. And being able to outline for that for them, I think it’s really empowering.”
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So how did Amy and her team do it?
They built it into every aspect of the employee lifecycle by:
- Analyzing the values of their most and least successful employees, and the values of those who led the company through breakthroughs
- Having company leadership lead trainings to teach all managers worldwide, and allow those managers alignment with and exposure to executives
- Onboarding in a way that decodes the culture into simply outlined, actionable steps
- Ingraining company culture into each and every programmatic decision
Tune into our conversation with Amy to learn more about how Databricks built a culture that’s survived massive growth (and how you can too).