We’re committed to providing a creative, fulfilling, and supportive work environment. We hold virtual holiday trivia and costume events, virtual game day happy hours, fitness challenges, and BYOM(ug) coffee chats. We stress the importance of our overall well-being through companywide mental health days and community service days when all are encouraged to disconnect from the office and try something new. Our employee spotlight program lets team members recognize others’ efforts for the whole company. And our new Employee and Loved One Fund helps employees alleviate financial and emotional stress in the event of unanticipated adversity.

We care about establishing a place where employees feel valued as part of our success. To unite a group of people with varied backgrounds and interests, our CEO and senior management are dedicated to creating a culture and environment where every team member feels engaged and supported, where they have opportunities to learn and grow. At our last annual year-end meeting, the metrics that our CEO was most proud to share was the number of first homes purchased by employees, babies and grandbabies born, Appcastians married or engaged, and those who recently graduated.

We stay close to our startup roots by maintaining a strong environment of innovation, change, and direct communication. We offer free medical, dental, and vision, as well as mental health assessments and care for employees. A perks stipend included in each employee paycheck can be used toward things like at-home workout equipment, lunch, or dry cleaning. Our flexible time-off policy allows employees to take time when they need it, and we also provide free equipment to make working from home comfortable and productive.

We put culture first, beginning in our hiring process. Although we hire talented people who we are confident can do the work, we also look closely at their ability to be thoughtful--namely, to value others and think more of others than of themselves. We hire and retain those who are both thoughtful and high performing. We ask every employee to be a net positive--someone who makes our culture better for being here. The ways we make decisions and have conversations with one another are shaped by our values and ideas.

Our culture is founded on three principles: innovation, impact, and empathy. At our core is innovative research and development in an area that most engineering firms ignore: the human component. But innovation without application is navel-gazing; our aim is to impact the world in meaningful ways by bringing those innovations to light. But what really separates our company from others is empathy. Baked into our interactions, processes, and policies is the belief that each employee needs to have multiple vantage points when making decisions--big and small.