Bother

My manager is one of the best people I have ever met. She cares about me as a person, before me as a team member - and that influences how we think of, plan and execute work. She cares about my development and always offers avenues for it, demonstrating that she is really happy if I grow and succeed.

At Bother, outcomes always come before time spent. What really matters is that things get done, and the quality of what gets done. If someone produces their best effort by working at non-conventional times or specific hours, from a café, from home or at the office, they are not just welcome, but encouraged to work whenever, wherever and for how long they feel creates the best conditions for success. Everyone is empowered to choose how to make work fit into life, not the other way round.

The work I do at Bother matters. My team won't consider embarking on a project if there is no meaningful impact on the people we serve, and this applies to all teams. We always look at things from a wider perspective: will this make our customer's life easier or better? Will this benefit the planet? How? We are also empowered to suggest to the wider organisation projects that are meaningful: I feel that I really want to come to work to do something important.

The amount of autonomy and room for experiment paired with us being a small team who support each other fully, means there is ample room to try something new!

Our work is focused on our mission - simplifying people's lives. It's driven by our values which we speak to and test our work by day in and day out.

We have a DEIB Specialist - at this early stage, that's almost unheard of! We host Brave Space discussions to get those uncomfortable topics out there in order to test our assumptions and are doing some great work in the recruitment space to diversify our candidate pools.

I love the fact that we all have personal learning budgets that can be used however we see fit, it makes me feel empowered to make decisions that not only benefit me now but for my longer term career aspirations too.

The people at Bother live so truly to our values of being empathetic, realistic and collaborative. People are always looking for ways to support you with your workload if things feel tough and everyone is trying to help grow each other.

Bother are still a small team and the fact that they have hired a diversity specialist shows me how important it is. We constantly have discussions about diversity and equity within the team and know we are working towards being recognised as a leader in the DEIB space.

Our CEO brings the best out of every team member. Having launched Bother in the middle of a pandemic, Doug's dedication to the team is admirable and this really reflects in our company culture.

Bother's mission is to make our customer's lives simpler so they can spend less time on household shopping and more time on themselves. Across all parts of the business, we work together to achieve this mission and celebrate victories when we do!

The team here at Bother is growing at a rapid rate. We've been working virtually since the very beginning, but this hasn't stopped us from building great working relationships. My manager is approachable and they care. It doesn't matter whether it's just for a quick catch up or if I need some direction, they will always make time. We're also all encouraged to get outside away from our desks and spend time focusing on ourselves - we have an optional mindfulness session daily!

It's a seriously smart team at all levels. People are engaged, hard-working and always thinking of ways do be doing things differently and better. But everyone is happy to get stuck in too - no egos. Great team and colleagues who inspire you to step up every day.

Great people-centric leadership team who are making data-driven decisions. Focused on realistic growth and sustainable long-term picture. CEO is passionate and empathetic, always on hand to motivate but also check in on the team.

Culture is absolutely at the heart of the business and it's clear from the moment you start the interview process, what type of company it is. Values are frequently referred to both when it comes to people and culture but also how teams work. Feels like really solid foundations for a growing team.

As a company founded during COVID Bother is very remote based and family friendly. I do the nursery run 3 days a week and take time to be with my family when it matters. Also we discovered in standup that half the product team can recite the Gruffalo by heart ...

There's a real sense of confident people who know what they're doing making and executing solid plans. Everyone on the team has built succesful startups before so I know i can trust their judgement and that we're set up to grow a great company.

We get together as a company to share plans and progress on a weekly basis. We hold outselves accountable to each other and no topic ever feels off limits.

The mission we are here to fulfil is to make our customers live easier. We also do this with a focus on being as green as possible. Everyone here has a really strong focus on achieving this and its clear from the goals we set to the memes we share.

Working with nice people is always a priority for me, but its also great that everyone here is fantastic at what they do. Despite being at home during lockdown, there is still time spent together and effort made from upper management to enable that (events etc). I am looking forward to sharing a pint with everyone.

The tech is the latest and greatest because we get the opportunity to choose the tech. We set outcomes and then can do the implementation in any (reasonable) way we see fit. The variety of work is excellent, something that is important to me at this point in my life. I have done, devops, QA, hiring all on top of being a developer. There is also great knowledge sharing that happens on a weekly/fortnightly basis where people can share things about in house tech or what they have learnt on the side.

Really supportive work place around employees personal needs and lifestyles. Really trying to make it work for everyone including working from wherever home happens to be.

Clear vision and mission which is always communicated widely. The CEO is ambitious and focused and keeps the team on track. We are fortunate that the CEO is also someone who is emotionally intelligent, so culture is at the heart of how we build and scale the team.

Data is at the heart of all decision making, we have a hugely experienced team who put the focus on experimentation and documentation. I've learnt a lot since joining about how to make data driven decisions more efficient and effective!