Why join Postman

As a developer who loved coding and building things, I never wanted to work for a company. Working for companies, as I understood it, was difficult. Being a developer meant being "managed" by an oppressive hierarchy of bosses who give you requirements and then count how many hours you work. When I started Postman, I wondered about this a lot. Will others see Postman as a company the same way I saw others? 

Concerned with this question, along with my co-founders, Ankit and Abhijit, I listed a few traits that we believed would make for an actual great workplace. These rest on our belief that the best people care about their work and it is imperative for the company to ensure that it does not place roadblocks in their creativity and work. 

1. Build a product that millions of developers use across the globe - We have been fortunate to see Postman being adopted by developers across the world. At Postman, you get to experience what this feels like and the challenges that come with it.

2. Have the autonomy to do things while working together as a team - We define responsibilities clearly. We try to learn from mistakes. We encourage experimentation as we know that it leads to new ideas.

3. See the impact of your work - At Postman, people take a feature from conceptualization to production to talking to users. What our users say about Postman is not filtered. Most of the time it is great. Sometimes it sucks to hear bad feedback. But we learn and improve together.

4. Use great products and tools - We pay for tools that people at Postman like to work with. We believe that using great products creates an environment of building a great product.

5. Have a real impact on product decisions - We build our roadmap collaboratively. We figured out that it can't be done any other way at our scale. We take in feedback at all levels and encourage everyone to contribute to our user's journey through Postman.

6. Solve hard problems - As a rapidly growing company, we deal with new problems of scale and complexity every day. We prioritize the experience of our users before technology which leads to discovering new things about technology. Postman now has a desktop app, a command line tool, browser extensions that all work seamlessly together with a massive cloud infrastructure on AWS. We have built a new way of collaborating on APIs and re-imagined what developer tools are capable of. On the design side, we found that existing user experience and design practices are not sufficient to handle the complexity of building Postman. We then set out to invent a few internally and have seen them succeed across a range of different initiatives.

These are just a few examples of what we have learnt so far. Fundamentally, we believe that a company should build systems to support and foster the creativity of people. Creating and realizing the full value of one's work, gives greater satisfaction than free food.

Growing from scratch to now a team of 50+ across Bangalore and San Francisco, I am happy to have found people who share the same ideals and am excited about what the future holds.