Edmond Lau is a Quora Engineer who wrote a long Quora answer about what makes for a good engineering culture.

He talks about the things he learned at Google, Ooyala, and Quora.

Here's his full answer and here's my tl;dr :

1. Iterate quickly.

2. Automate relentlessly.

3. Abstract properly.

4. Code review rigorously.

5. Treat co-workers respectfully.

6. Share ownership of code.

7. Spend time to automate testing.

8. Give 20% time.

9. Encourage learning and continuous improvement.

10. "Hire the best."

Thought provoking. Thank you @ericries for tweeting this!

I like how #2 is "automate ALL the things!" and #7 is "automate the testing!"

Automation is important, that's why he says it twice.

It's like the first and second rules of Fight Club.