Our culture

Being intentional about restoring JOY...through our culture

When you interact with us for any length of time, you start to notice there’s something different about Menlonians. That's due in large part to a culture that's dedicated to making people feel safe. Why? Because fear kills joy.

Clients tell us we're more open, more transparent, and more engaged than any other company they know.

Work in Progress

When we pump fear out of the room, amazing things start to happen. People generate more creative ideas and ask more meaningful questions. They skip long, unproductive meetings in favor of running experiments so they can make mistakes faster and get to solutions sooner.

Pretty much everything you encounter at Menlo comes out of experiments we've run. We're always innovating, always changing, always looking for new ways to solve problems and delight clients and the people who use what we create. Like everything else at Menlo, our culture is a work in progress.

Work and Life—How We Find Balance

It's not a poster on our wall or an HR policy; we build balance right from the start into our processes. By tearing down silos with rotating pairs and projects, no one needs to take a laptop on vacation. Through test-driven development and our QA process, we eliminate late-night and weekend phone calls to put out fires. We often bring home to work, but we never bring work home.

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40-Hour Work Week

We don't work overtime or weekends. Really. No, seriously.

40-Hour Work Week

We’re serious about having a good work/life balance, in part because well-rounded, well-rested people are more likely to bring focus and innovation back to the team.

15-Minute Daily Status Meeting

Get out of the conference room and back to the projects that excite you.

15-Minute Daily Status Meeting

Dubbed STAND-UP; this is where we quickly catch up with what’s going on and share questions or needs. No matter how many people participate, they always seem to run about 15 minutes. We found that if we sat down, the meeting went on for twice that.

29 Babies (and counting)

You'll often encounter babies at Menlo.

29 Babies (and counting)

They swing next to Mom at her desk or sleep in Dad’s arms during a meeting. This has proven to be our most popular experiment so far, and not just for the obvious reasons: everyone behaves better when babies are present.

11 Office Dogs (and 17 remote work cats!)

Dogs humanize us. Cats humor us.

11 Office Dogs (and 17 remote work cats!)

The joyful pitter-patter of puppy paws has long been a common sound at the Menlo office, with as many as three furry friends in-office at once. With the emergence of hybrid work, we've also had a number of cats make themselves known on video calls.

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Who We Are

Being intentional about restoring JOY...through our team

Our People