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1. dangoo+Pc[view] [source] 2020-03-23 17:18:00
>>whoish+(OP)
Khan Academy | Mountain View, CA and REMOTE USA/CANADA | Senior Backend / Fullstack | https://khanacademy.org/careers

We're a non-profit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. It's a big mission that we're taking on step by step. While we want anyone to be able to get a great education independently, we've been focusing a lot on trying to help teachers working in their classrooms (and a lot of teachers and parents are using Khan away from their classrooms right now!)

Our site has been built on Python 2 and Google App Engine for its first 10 years of existence. We're now in the midst of a rebuild in Go (still on App Engine).[1] Parts of that new Go-based infrastructure are already running in production.

To say that this is an exciting time for us would be an understatement, I think, but we continue to have working sustainably as an engineering principle. (Our principles are available publicly[2].)

[1]: http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm [2]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZQ-HTuH38L8sf4ZObfJN...

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2. levidx+pH[view] [source] 2020-03-23 19:58:20
>>dangoo+Pc
> we continue to have working sustainably as an engineering principle

For me this is a major factor in choosing an employer so I followed your link ([2]) but did not see anything in your principles that refers to working sustainably or work-life balance, etc.

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3. dangoo+wI[view] [source] 2020-03-23 20:05:22
>>levidx+pH
Oh, right you are! My mistake, which is funny because I worked on the engineering principles.

The engineering principles take our overall organization values and lay out engineering-specific takes on them. I haven't seen the organization values posted publicly, but one of the top line values is "Work responsibly and sustainably" and I can say firsthand that this is something we talk about in management meetings.

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4. shawnj+GR[view] [source] 2020-03-23 21:04:01
>>dangoo+wI
^ Eng manager here at Khan, I can vouch for this!! We have a huge emphasis on work life balance on our team.
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5. jdandr+zt1[view] [source] 2020-03-24 02:00:42
>>shawnj+GR
+1... Software Engineer here at Khan. I can confirm that as well, and I can say with all confidence that we have a good work-life balance here :)
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