We’ve all worked at places, that, looking back, hold some special place in our memory.  When you meet former coworkers, even years later, you’ll share a feeling with them about the value and meaning of that shared experience.  At successive jobs from that time forward, you’ll find yourself holding new workplace experiences up against the yardstick of that one particular place you worked.  I call those Camelot Jobs.

At hotelicopter, we consciously and deliberately co-create that workplace together, and even in the present, it has an air of Camelot.  At the hotelicopter we are co-creating, geeks will look back with fondness and say, ‘That was a great place to work’.  This feeling will be a byproduct of a highly productive team, whose greatest virtue might be summed up in the notion:

We built a whole lot of really cool shit, and got it done fast, and got it done right.

This Camelot grows from the experience of creating world class software that solves difficult problems, and then gets used.  It grows from the environment which makes that possible: one in which we are productive, we feel community with one another, we do interesting and challenging things, our work means something, we are given clear, reasonable expectations and hold ourselves accountable to them, we feel the tradewinds of consistency and fairness at our back, and we exert a level of control over our work lives that makes us feel valued as human beings.