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While Jordan Latimer hasn’t met some of her teammates outside of Zoom, she still knows each of them personally due to Root’s focus on connection. For instance, joining the company’s Bible study group has enabled her to grow in her faith while building relationships. Latimer added that this interconnectedness is also prioritized in the work itself, which is amplified when teams meet in person to collaborate at the Columbus headquarters. “It’s a great way to be fully present with the team and focus on current projects while developing personal bonds through team-building activities,” she said.

Derrick Spell doesn’t consider his team’s work exciting simply because of the projects they handle, which include optimizing low-level telematics in native mobile code and modeling complex business processes. It’s the impact of this work that invigorates him the most. “We’re ultimately offering a product that’s an essential part of people’s lives,” Spell said. This influence goes hand in hand with a focus on transparency. Spell said monthly engineering all-hands meetings offer team members insight into business metrics and trends so they understand the intention behind their work.