> the distaste for intense scrutinization of productivity

Do you mean a lack of KPIs driving HR decisions?

HR essentially reviews us once at the end of every year. It is primarily our managers who oversee our productivity, and they're all too busy to micromanage anyone (and discouraged from it anyways). There are no quarterly reviews, no regularly scheduled layoffs, no extremely deep management hierarchies, etc.

Compared to Google, Amazon, or Meta, we have a huge amount of freedom as well as very open insight into most of what other teams are doing on Slack. I follow several developer Slack channels for software I was a fan of prior to onboarding.

I read online that there isn't a standard hiring procedure, but in my interviews they didn't give me esoteric coding puzzles, they mainly wanted to discuss computers and let me yap about my interests. The whiteboard problems were trivial.