Formance
What's the Company Culture Like at Formance?
What People Are Saying About Formance
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Collaborative & Supportive Culture: Face-to-face collaboration in a fully on-site NYC office is positioned as the default to speed iteration and cohesion, enabling tight feedback loops and direct access to founders and functional leads.
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Learning & Knowledge Sharing: Open-source repos, public docs, SDKs, and a shared language for money flows (Numscript) make knowledge visible and reusable across teams, reinforcing clarity in design and decisions.
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Efficient & Empowering Processes: DORA-aligned incident/change rituals, runbooks, and clearly defined roles formalize how work gets shipped in a compliance-heavy domain, supporting auditability and reliable execution.
Formance's Benefits
Employee feedback used to shape policies and strategy
Encourages autonomy and ownership from employees
Managers give public shoutouts and celebrate employee milestones
Managers offer consistent feedback loops
Provides modern technology across teams
Provides resources to build team camaraderie
Flexibility provided during personal challenges
Offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Offers company-sponsored happy hours
Offers company-sponsored outings
Offers wellness initiatives designed to combat burnout and mental fatigue
Works with employees to create a sustainable work pace
Defined policies promoting a professional, respectful workplace
Defined values and mission statements
Documented operating principles
Documented policies and procedures to protect employee privacy and data
Engineering team utilizes pair programming
Implements team-based strategic planning
Leadership encourages open, transparent debate
Leadership is transparent and communicative
Mistakes are treated as learning opportunities
Open office floor plan to encourage communication and collaboration
Policies promote a low-ego, team-driven culture
Prioritizes mission-driven work in decision-making processes
Prioritizes real-world impact of work in decision-making processes
Promotes a people-first, social culture
Promotes a strong in-person office culture
Uses an OKR operational model to clearly define goals and priorities
Utilizes an open door policy that encourages accessibility
Async-friendly policies, culture that encourage work flexibility
Established expectations for communication between time zones
Flexible work schedule is defined with set expectations for start times, working hours and availability
In-office days / expectations are defined
Utilizes a flexible work schedule
