├── Internal └── Hierarchy.md ├── LICENSE ├── Letters & Documents ├── Acknowledgment of Receipt.md ├── EPIIAA.md ├── Hello Engineer.md └── Welcome One Pager.md ├── Mission Statement.md ├── Perks ├── Holidays.md ├── Insurance.md ├── Sabbatical.md ├── Support for Contribution.md └── Vacations and Leaves.md ├── Policies.md ├── Policies ├── Code of Conduct.md ├── Employee Privacy.md ├── Employment Policy.md └── Workplace Policy.md ├── README.md ├── Values.md └── redbook.jpeg /Internal/Hierarchy.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Reporting Hierarchy 2 | 3 | We believe in a flat hierarchy. But to split and handle operations, the CEO of the company takes the responsibility of the entire company. Everyone working at Skcript should report to Karthik K (CEO) and Swaathi K (VP of Products). Our goal of this particular relationship is to provide support and guidance to the team members. This goal is achieved by holding regular meetings, one-to-ones, reviews and much more. 4 | 5 | While we do not do any official performance reviews, we believe that one-to-ones will give us better idea about the targets that you’ve achieved and other important aspects of your work at Skcript. Feedbacks about your performance are usually instant. 6 | 7 | This one-step hierarchy is not meant to divide the company into teams or to highlight some kind of power. These are purely for responsibility and point of reference, in case of any problem that one might incur. Though everyone has a very distinctive business function, we all should try to operate as a single team as much as possible. At this point, Skcript has this one-step hierarchy, but we are trying to innovate even as we grow into a big company. 8 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /LICENSE: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | The MIT License (MIT) 2 | 3 | Copyright (c) 2018 Skcript 4 | 5 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 6 | of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 7 | in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 8 | to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 9 | copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 10 | furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 11 | 12 | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 13 | copies or substantial portions of the Software. 14 | 15 | THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 16 | IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 17 | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 18 | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 19 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 20 | OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 21 | SOFTWARE. 22 | 23 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Letters & Documents/Acknowledgment of Receipt.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Acknowledgement of Receipt of Employee RedBook 2 | 3 | I hereby acknowledge that I have received the Skcript Employee RedBook and I confirm that I have read all the documents in the RedBook to understand its provisions. I further understand that I can ask any clarification about any provisions I have to the founders of the company. 4 | 5 | I further understand that the founders of Skcript may at any time modify, rescind, or revise any policy, benefit, or practice described in the RedBook, and the same will be intimated to the entire company via email. 6 | 7 | I understand and agree that my employment with Skcript is at-will and can be terminated by either me or the company without cause with one month notice, and that nothing in the RedBook should be interpreted to the contrary. This is the entire agreement between me and Skcript on this subject; it supersedes any prior inconsistent representations or agreements and may only be modified in a writing signed by me and the CEO. 8 | 9 | I acknowledge that it is my responsibility to read and become familiar with the contents of the RedBook. 10 | 11 | 12 | ``` 13 | 14 | Date: ________________________ 15 | 16 | 17 | Full Name: ________________________ 18 | 19 | 20 | Signature: ________________________ 21 | 22 | ``` 23 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Letters & Documents/EPIIAA.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignment Agreement (EPIIAA) 2 | 3 | **Skcript** 4 | 5 | THIS EMPLOYEE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION AND INVENTIONS ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT (this "Agreement"), is made by and between Skcript (the “Company”), and the undersigned individual (“Employee”). In consideration of Employee’s employment with the Company, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Employee hereby agrees to the following restrictions placed on Employee’s use and development of proprietary information, technology, ideas and inventions: 6 | 7 | 1. Proprietary Information. 8 | 9 | 1. Restrictions on Proprietary Information. Employee agrees that, during the term of employment with the Company and at all times thereafter, Employee will hold the Proprietary Information of the Company in strict confidence and will neither use the information nor disclose it to anyone, except to the extent necessary to carry out Employee’s responsibilities for the Company or as specifically authorized in writing by a duly authorized representative of the Company. Employee understands that "Proprietary Information" means all information pertaining in any manner to the business of the Company or its affiliates, consultants, or business associates, unless: (i) the information is or becomes through lawful means publicly known and generally known among businesses similar to the Company; (ii) the information was part of Employee’s general knowledge prior to being employed by the Company as demonstrable by documentary evidence; or (iii) the information is disclosed to Employee without restriction by a third party who rightfully possesses the information and did not learn of it from the Company. The term “Proprietary Information” shall specifically include, but not be limited to: (A) technical data, research, product or service ideas or plans, software codes and designs, algorithms, developments, inventions, patent applications, office notebooks, processes, formulas, techniques, designs and drawings, hardware configuration information, schematics, development tools, computer printouts, computer programs, design drawings and manuals, electronic codes, formulas and improvements, ideas, methods, and know-how; (B) business plans and methods, research and development information, marketing strategies and techniques, agreements with third parties, lists of, or information relating to, suppliers and customers (including, but not limited to, customers of the Company on whom the Employee called or with whom Employee became acquainted during the term of employment), price lists, pricing methodologies, cost data, market share data, marketing plans, licenses, contract information, business plans, financial forecasts, historical financial data, budgets or other business information disclosed to me by the Company either directly or indirectly, whether in writing, electronically, orally, or by observation; (C) information about costs, profits, markets, sales, and bids; (D) lists of existing or potential customers and strategic partners; (E) information concerning the Company’s patents, patent applications, copyrights, trademarks, tradenames, trade secrets, and know-how; (F) employee personnel files and information about employee compensation and benefits, lists of, or information relating to, employees and consultants of the Company (including, but not limited to, the names, contact information, jobs, compensation, and expertise of such employees and consultants); and (G) all information and documents (electronic or otherwise) relating to, making known, or making knowable (alone or in combination with any other source of information) any of the foregoing. 10 | 11 | 2. Prior Actions and Knowledge. Except as disclosed on **Schedule A** attached hereto, Employee does not know (or, in the event this Agreement is being executed subsequent to the commencement of Employee’s employment by the Company, did not know) anything about the Company's Proprietary Information, other than information Employee has learned from the Company in the course of being hired by the Company. 12 | 13 | 3. Third Party Information. Employee recognizes that the Company has received and will in the future receive confidential or proprietary information from third parties, including, without limitation, customers and strategic partners of the Company. Employee will hold all such information in the strictest confidence and will not use the information or disclose it to anyone (except as necessary in carrying out Employee’s work for the Company consistent with the Company's agreement with such third party). 14 | 15 | 2. Inventions. 16 | 17 | 1. Assignment of Inventions. All Inventions created or prepared by Employee either (i) in the course and scope of Employee’s employment with the Company, (ii) during the Company’s normal business hours during the term of Employee’s employment by the Company, or (iii) while utilizing any of the Company’s Proprietary Information or resources (collectively, "Assigned Inventions"), shall be considered specially commissioned works and works made for hire, and regardless of whether works made for hire, the Company shall exclusively own all Assigned Inventions and all rights, title, interests and privileges therein, including, but not limited to, all patent rights in all countries and jurisdictions. Employee agrees to assign, and upon creation of any Assigned Invention does hereby assign, to the Company, without further consideration, the entire right, title, interest, and privilege (throughout the United States of America and in all other countries and jurisdictions), free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, in and to all Assigned Inventions. Employee further agrees to execute any documents that may be necessary or desirable to effect, enable, confirm, or evidence such assignment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may, in its discretion, agree to provide consideration for certain Inventions through a written agreement between the Company and Employee which specifically provides for such consideration; in all other cases, no consideration shall be paid. The Assigned Inventions shall be the sole property of the Company, whether or not patentable. In addition, Employee agrees to maintain adequate and current written records on the development of all Assigned Inventions, which shall also remain the sole property of the Company. Employee understands that “Inventions” means all ideas, processes, inventions, works of authorship, technology, designs, formulas, discoveries, devices, symbols, marks, methods (of doing business or otherwise), and all subject matter that may be protectible by patent, copyright, trade secret, trademarks, or by any other proprietary rights, along with all applications, registrations, government grants, and rights to the same, and all improvements, continuations (of any form), rights, and claims related to any of the foregoing, that are created, authored, made, invented, discovered, conceived, developed, or reduced to practice by Employee alone or with others, except such specific items as are excluded with particularity in **Schedule A** attached hereto. The Company’s right, title, interest, and privilege in and to Assigned Inventions shall not be affected in any way by the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company (for any reason whatsoever or for no reason). 18 | 19 | 2. License for Other Inventions. If, in the course of Employee’s employment with the Company, Employee incorporates into Company property an Invention owned by Employee or in which Employee has an interest, the Company is hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to the fullest extent of Employee’s interest and rights in the Invention to make, modify, use, sublicense and sell the Invention as part of and in connection with the Company property or modifications thereof. 20 | 21 | 3. Assist With Registration. In the event any Assigned Invention shall be deemed by the Company, in its sole discretion, to be patentable or otherwise registrable, Employee will assist the Company (at the Company’s expense) in obtaining and maintaining letters patent or other applicable registrations and in vesting the Company with full title. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Employee will execute all documents that may be necessary or desirable to apply for, prosecute, obtain, or enforce any patent or other right or protection relating to any Assigned Invention. Should the Company be unable to secure Employee’s signature on any document necessary or desirable to apply for, prosecute, obtain, or enforce any patent or other right or protection relating to any Assigned Invention, due to Employee’s incapacity or any other cause, Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Company and each of its duly authorized officers and agents as Employee’s agent and attorney-in-fact to do all lawfully permitted acts to further the prosecution, issuance, and enforcement of patents or other rights or protection with the same force and effect as if executed and delivered by Employee. 22 | 23 | 4. Disclosure. Employee agrees to disclose promptly to the Company all Assigned Inventions and relevant records. 24 | 25 | 3. Former or Conflicting Agreements. 26 | 27 | 1. Former Agreements. Employee represents and warrants that Employee’s performance of the terms of this Agreement will not breach any agreement to keep in confidence proprietary information acquired by Employee prior to Employee’s employment by the Company. Employee has listed in **Schedule A** attached hereto all other agreements concerning proprietary information or inventions to which Employee is a party. To the best of Employee’s knowledge, there is no other contract between Employee and any other person or entity that is in conflict with this Agreement or concerns proprietary information, Inventions, assignment of ideas, or any intellectual property. 28 | 29 | 2. Obligations During Employment. During Employee’s employment with the Company, Employee will not disclose to the Company, or use, or induce the Company to use, any proprietary information or trade secrets of others. 30 | 31 | 4. Termination. 32 | 33 | 1. Return of the Company’s Property. Employee agrees to return promptly to the Company upon termination of Employee’s employment with the Company (for any reason whatsoever or for no reason) all Proprietary Information, all tangible things from which Proprietary Information may become known or knowable, and all personal property furnished to or prepared by Employee in the course of, as a result of, or incident to Employee’s employment with the Company. Following Employee’s termination (for any reason whatsoever or for no reason), Employee will not retain any written or other tangible material containing any Proprietary Information or information pertaining to any Assigned Invention. 34 | 35 | 2. Termination Certificate. In the event of the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company (for any reason whatsoever or for no reason), Employee agrees, if requested by the Company, to sign and deliver the Termination Certificate attached hereto as **Schedule B**. 36 | 37 | 3. Subsequent Employers. Employee agrees that after the termination of Employee’s employment with the Company (for any reason whatsoever or for no reason), Employee will not enter into any agreement that conflicts with Employee’s obligations under this Agreement and will inform any and all subsequent employers of Employee’s obligations under this Agreement. 38 | 39 | 5. Solicitation of Employees, Consultants and Other Parties. Employee acknowledges and agrees that the Company’s Proprietary Information includes information relating to the Company’s employees, consultants, customers and others, and that Employee will not use or disclose such Proprietary Information except as authorized by the Company. Employee further agrees as follows: 40 | 41 | 1. Employees, Consultants. Employee agrees that during the term of the employment, and for a period of twelve (12) months immediately following the termination of employment for any reason, whether with or without cause, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit, induce, recruit or encourage any of the Company’s employees or consultants to terminate their relationship with the Company, or attempt to solicit, induce, recruit, encourage or take away employees or consultants of the Company, either for myself or for any other person or entity. 42 | 43 | 2. Other Parties. Employee agrees that during the term of the employment, will not negatively influence any of the Company’s clients, licensors, licensees or customers from purchasing Company products or services or solicit or influence or attempt to influence any client, licensor, licensee, customer or other person either directly or indirectly, to direct any purchase of products and/or services to any person, firm, corporation, institution or other entity in competition with the business of the Company. 44 | 45 | 6. At-Will Employment. Employee recognizes that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to imply that Employee’s employment is guaranteed for any period of time. Unless stated in a written agreement signed by a duly authorized representative of the Company, Employee’s employment is at-will, and either the Company or Employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time, for any reason or for no reason, with or without cause or advance notice. 46 | 47 | 7. Remedies. Employee recognizes that nothing in this Agreement is intended to limit any remedy of the Company under any federal or state law concerning trade secrets. Employee further recognizes that Employee’s violation of this Agreement will cause the Company irreparable harm and that monetary damages will be inadequate to compensate fully for such breach. Accordingly, it is understood and agreed that the Company shall be entitled, in the event of a breach or a threatened breach by Employee of any of the provisions of this Agreement, to a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction and permanent injunction in order to prevent or restrain any such breach by Employee. These remedies are in addition to any remedies available at equity or at law. Employee agrees to reimburse the Company for any and all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred by the Company in enforcing Employee’s obligations hereunder. 48 | 49 | 8. Miscellaneous Provisions. 50 | 51 | 1. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without regard to any choice of law rules that may direct the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. 52 | 53 | 2. Severability. In the event that any provision or portion of this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, for any reason, under present or future law, Employee agrees that such provision or portion shall be severable and the remainder of this Agreement shall not be invalidated or rendered unenforceable or otherwise adversely affected. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if a court should deem any provision of this Agreement to create a restriction that is unreasonable as to scope, duration or geographical area, Employee agrees that the provisions of this Agreement shall be enforceable in such scope, for such duration and in such geographic area as any court having jurisdiction may determine to be reasonable. 54 | 55 | 3. Entire Agreement. The terms of this Agreement are the final expression of Employee’s agreement with respect to the subject matter hereof and may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior or contemporaneous agreement. This Agreement shall constitute the complete and exclusive statement of its terms. Employee acknowledges that the Company has not made any other representations concerning the subject matter of this Agreement. 56 | 57 | 4. Amendment; Waivers. This Agreement can be amended or terminated only by a written agreement signed by both parties. No failure to exercise or delay in exercising any right under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof. 58 | 59 | 5. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon Employee and Employee’s heirs, executors, administrators, and successors, and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Company, including, without limitation, any purchaser of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets or a majority or more of the Company’s outstanding common stock. 60 | 61 | 6. Effective Date. In the event that Employee is executing this Agreement subsequent to the commencement of Employee’s employment with the Company, Employee hereby agrees that this Agreement shall be effective as of the date on which Employee commenced Employee’s employment with the Company. Without limiting the foregoing, Employee agrees that the terms of this Agreement shall apply to all Proprietary Information received by Employee, and all Inventions created or prepared by Employee, at any time during the course of Employee’s employment with the Company. 62 | 63 | EMPLOYEE HAS READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY AND UNDERSTANDS ITS TERMS. EMPLOYEE HAS COMPLETELY NOTED ON **SCHEDULE A** TO THIS AGREEMENT ANY PROPRIETARY INFORMATION, IDEAS, PROCESSES, INVENTIONS, TECHNOLOGY, WRITINGS, PROGRAMS, DESIGNS, FORMULAS, DISCOVERIES, PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, OR TRADEMARKS, OR IMPROVEMENTS, RIGHTS, OR CLAIMS RELATING TO THE FOREGOING, THAT EMPLOYEE DESIRES TO EXCLUDE FROM THIS AGREEMENT. 64 | 65 | ``` 66 | 67 | Date: ________________________ 68 | 69 | 70 | Employee Name: ________________________ 71 | 72 | 73 | Signature: ________________________ 74 | 75 | ``` 76 | ## **SCHEDULE A** 77 | 78 | **EMPLOYEE'S DISCLOSURE** 79 | 80 | 1. Proprietary Information. 81 | 82 | Except as set forth below, Employee acknowledges that at this time (or, in the event this schedule is being executed subsequent to the commencement of Employee’s employment by the Company, at the time of commencement of Employee’s employment by the Company) Employee knows nothing about the business or Proprietary Information of Skcript (the "Company"), other than information Employee has learned from the Company in the course of being hired: 83 | 84 | *** 85 | *** 86 | *** 87 | *** 88 | *** 89 | *** 90 | 91 | 2. Prior Inventions. 92 | 93 | Except as set forth below, there are no ideas, processes, inventions, technology, writings, programs, designs, formulas, discoveries, patents, copyrights, or trademarks, or any claims, rights, or improvements to the foregoing, that Employee wishes to exclude from the operation of this Agreement: 94 | 95 | *** 96 | *** 97 | *** 98 | *** 99 | *** 100 | *** 101 | 102 | 3. Prior Agreements. 103 | 104 | Except as set forth below, Employee is aware of no prior agreements between Employee and any other person or entity concerning proprietary information or inventions: 105 | 106 | *** 107 | *** 108 | *** 109 | *** 110 | *** 111 | *** 112 | 113 | ``` 114 | 115 | Date: ________________________ 116 | 117 | 118 | Employee Name: ________________________ 119 | 120 | 121 | Signature: ________________________ 122 | 123 | ``` 124 | ## **SCHEDULE B** 125 | 126 | **TERMINATION CERTIFICATE CONCERNING** 127 | 128 | **COMPANY PROPRIETARY INFORMATION** 129 | 130 | This is to certify that I, the undersigned, have returned all personal property of Skcript (the "Company"), including, without limitation, all source code listings, books, manuals, records, models, drawings, reports, notes, contracts, lists, blueprints, and other documents and materials, Proprietary Information, and equipment furnished to or prepared by me in the course of or incident to my employment with the Company, and that I did not make or distribute any copies of the foregoing. 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | I further certify that I have reviewed the Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement (the "Agreement") signed by me and that I have complied with and will continue to comply with all of its terms, including, without limitation, (i) the reporting of any idea, process, invention, technology, writing, program, design, formula, discovery, patent, copyright, or trademark, or any improvement, rights, or claims related to the foregoing, conceived or developed by me and covered by the Agreement and (ii) the preservation as confidential of all Proprietary Information pertaining to the Company. This certificate in no way limits my responsibilities or the Company's rights under the Agreement. 135 | 136 | On termination of my employment with the Company, I will be employed by _________________________________________ **[Name of New Employer] **and I will be working in connection with the following projects: 137 | 138 | **[generally describe the projects]** 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | ``` 143 | 144 | Date: ________________________ 145 | 146 | 147 | Employee Name: ________________________ 148 | 149 | 150 | Signature: ________________________ 151 | 152 | ``` -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Letters & Documents/Hello Engineer.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Hello! 2 | 3 | Welcome! 4 | 5 | We are pleased to have you at Skcript, and we are excited to work with you on products that revolutionizes the industry. We are building a team that understands and aligns perfectly with our mission and core values, and invest their energy into marching in that direction. This RedBook is to help you understand how we do business, the way we engage with the community and how we protect our identity. Your suggestions, comments, questions and contributions are welcome at all times to help improve the overall company culture and other things related to that. 6 | 7 | Each and every team member is responsible for reading, understanding, and complying with this RedBook. Our goal is to create a inclusive and open environment that will encourage you to innovate and think big all the time. We suggest you to be as constructive and supportive as possible to these compliances, that would propel your personal and professional growth. 8 | 9 | We are a small company right now, and changes are rapid. While you will receive emails from the founders constantly about the updates to the policies and RedBook, you are free to contribute by issuing a pull request here (https://github.com/skcript/RedBook). 10 | 11 | ``` 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | _____________________________ 17 | 18 | Karthik K 19 | 20 | CEO, Skcript 21 | ``` -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Letters & Documents/Welcome One Pager.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ``` 2 | You can work for a company. Or you can live for it. 3 | 4 | You can build a product. Or you can change the the world. 5 | 6 | You can code an application. Or make a difference. 7 | 8 | There’s a job. And there’s a passion. The kind of passion that keeps you awake at night. The kind of passion that defies all barriers. The kind of passion that kindles the soul and reawakens the mind. The kind of passion that pricks the hair on your neck. 9 | 10 | At Skcript we live that passion. And now you can too. 11 | 12 | Welcome. 13 | 14 | ``` -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Mission Statement.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Mission Statement 2 | 3 | > To make powerful tools that enable creators to push the human race forward. 4 | 5 | We build SHRINK, the best compression platform for the enterprise, allowing our customers to reuse their storage devices like never before. Skcript's North Star is to focus on our strategies and respect individual contributions to create a company that spark innovation. 6 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Perks/Holidays.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Skcript's Holiday List 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
New Year’s DayJanuary 1
Independence DayAugust 15
Republic DayJanuary 26
Christmas DayDecember 25
21 | 22 | 23 | If a holiday falls on a weekend, an appropriate date will be fixed to observe the holiday in adjascent days for your travel. 24 | 25 | **P.S.** This is in development and will be updated within the next few days. 26 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Perks/Insurance.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Healthcare and Accident Insurance 2 | 3 | Skcript is committed to provide the best lifestyle for its teams. We offer our employees a very good medical coverage and accident insurance with one of the major insurance companies in India. Both these benefits are managed by our auditors who will be visiting us every month. 4 | 5 | We offer medical, dental and vision coverage. Skcript contributes 75% of the cost for all employee policies. Currently, there is no restriction on the company in which the insurance is being handled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Perks/Sabbatical.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Sabbatical 2 | 3 | After every 5 years of working at Skcript, team members are encouraged to take a one-quarter (12 contiguous weeks) paid sabbatical. 4 | 5 | During this sabbatical, they should work on passion projects -- something outside the scope of their normal work that is interesting and exciting to them. This could be anything from creating something that the world needs and all the support will be provided by the company. 6 | 7 | The sabbatical should be a time of self-improvement and exploration with a central activity or theme. At the end of the sabbatical, the employee should put together a presentation about their sabbatical and present it to the team when they get back to the office. 8 | 9 | The sabbatical is meant to help further our core value of improvement by letting the employee explore and learn about another area of interest. It may also help some employees avoid burnout from working on one thing for too long. 10 | 11 | To make sure that sabbatical is not overly disruptive to their team, employees should have taken fewer than twelve weeks of paid time off in the year before a sabbatical. They should also notify the team that they will be taking the sabbatical at least 4 weeks in advance. 12 | 13 | There is an expectation that employees return to work at Skcript after their sabbatical, and not use it as a soft exit from the company. You will have to serve the company for the next 12 months from the time you re-join after your sabbatical. 14 | 15 | The sabbatical can not be used to work for any paid engagement for other companies. We will have regular meetings during the sabbatical to ensure you make the maximum out of your sabbatical. 16 | 17 | Paid time off of any kind, including sabbatical, does not accrue additional paid time off in the form of vacation days, sick days, or time towards sabbatical. For instance, an employee who has accrued 3 sick days before taking a 12 week sabbatical will still have 3 available sick days when they return. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Perks/Support for Contribution.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Support for Contribution 2 | 3 | Skcript truly believes in contributing to the community in any form that would help other people. So we understand that it’s important to support our teams’ efforts to contribute, learn, grow and improve the community. These are some of the key benefits of working at Skcript, and following its culture. 4 | 5 | #### Learning Budget 6 | 7 | Every employee has a company budget to support any learning activity that they want to pursue related to the product they are currently working on at Skcript. Each employee has an annual budget of Rs. 6,000 which can be spent towards program fees/tuition, tickets, flights, and hotels for industry conferences, classes, mentorship programs, books, programs, videos, or other places that they feel will provide valuable learning experiences. These expenses should be discussed in one-on-ones and approved by the CEO. This budget resets at the beginning of every calendar year and does not roll over. The learning budget will be limited to Rs. 3,000 during the first year of implementation and for employees joining the company after the month of March in the calendar year. The budget varies based on the years of experience at Skcript, and the importance of the course. 8 | 9 | Employees can also use work hours to work on learning projects, though this should be limited to four hours a week. 10 | 11 | #### Speaking Budget 12 | 13 | Skcript was built around a community our founders built in the city. We constantly encourage you to not only attend, but also to speak at conferences and share your knowledge with others in the industry. We would love to support anyone who’s been invited to speak at a conference/event, and the company will sponsor the flight tickets and stay if the organizers are not sponsoring it. But this could vary depending on the size of the conference, relevance to our area of interest and your work load. 14 | 15 | Everyone at Skcript are eligible **once a quarter** or **4 times a year**. Prior approval with important information about the conference/event is necessary and the tickets will be booked by the company for you. 16 | 17 | Speaking budget will be limited to two events during the first year of implementation and for employees joining the company after the month of March in the calendar year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Perks/Vacations and Leaves.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Vacation and Leaves 2 | 3 | We understand that taking time off from work, and recharging yourself is very critical to do the most challenging work at Skcript. So you are free to take an off under these circumstances, in addition to the recognized [list of holidays](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Perks/Holidays.md). 4 | 5 | As a full-time team member of Skcript, you are free to take 3 weeks (15 days) of paid vacation every year that calculates to 1.25 of a day per month of work. But to make sure the business runs even during your vacation, you are required to schedule your vacation a week in advance, and get it approved from the founding team of Skcript. Once approved, we will communicate with the entire team. 6 | 7 | Everyone also accrue **1 hour of sick leave for every 30 hours** of work, but cannot accrue more than 5 days of sick leave. 8 | 9 | Team members should report vacation and sick days to the founder they report to, who will mark it in the payroll system (which keeps track of accrued days and should include them on every pay stub). 10 | 11 | Team members with chronic or terminal illnesses should talk with the founder they report to about their needs for remote work, flexible time, disability leave and/or other support. 12 | 13 | Being a small team, any unannounced leave will hurt the business of the company, which in turn goes against the growth of the company, and will not be tolerated. 14 | 15 | #### Bereavement Leave 16 | 17 | An employee who wishes to take time off due to the death of an immediate family member should notify the founder to whom they report. Paid bereavement leave will be granted up to three consecutive days for the death of a family member including the following: spouse, domestic partner, cohabitant, child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, great grandparent, brother or sister. 18 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Policies.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Company Policies 2 | - You cannot use company’s property for interacting/managing/communicating/working for other companies, without the consent of Skcript. 3 | - It is necessary to meet the deadlines at all means. Skcript has a zero tolerance policy over the deadlines. It might require you to work extra hours. 4 | - We expect everyone to maintain a friendly relationship with the teams across the company. 5 | - There will be one office trip for up to three days, sponsored by the company. 6 | 7 | ### Joining Policies 8 | - Latest three months, pay-slips from previous company (if applicable) needs to be submitted to verify previous claimed salary. 9 | - Recommendation/Experience letter from previous company (if applicable) needs to be submitted. 10 | - Employee (permanent/temporary) will be required to sign an NDA. 11 | 12 | ### Leave Policies 13 | - Only 12 paid holidays per year. (6 days of sick leave and 6 days of casual leave) 14 | - Any leave must be notified 48 hours before the actual day of leave. If the leave is more than 2 consecutive days, must be notified 1 week before, and a Google Calendar must be blocked for those dates. 15 | - More than 3 days of sick leave required medical certificate. 16 | - Leave encashment can be claimed at end of year. 17 | - No two leave types can be combined. 18 | - Any un-utilized leave in this category will lapse at the end of the calendar year. 19 | - Maximum of two days of casual leave can be availed at a time. 20 | - Only on exceptional cases, will one be allowed to take more than 4 days off in any given month. 21 | 22 | ### Holiday Policy 23 | - Every second Saturday is a holiday. (May change based on pending work) 24 | - Every Sunday is a holiday. 25 | - All National Holidays are holidays. 26 | - State Government Holidays. 27 | - Only one casual leave can be combined with an official holiday. 28 | 29 | ### Salary Increment 30 | - Salary increment is purely based on the performance and your contribution to the company. 31 | - Reviewing performance will be the responsibility of company stakeholders, and/or the person (under reviews) lead. 32 | - The management evaluates the value. 33 | - Increment is based on the base salary. 34 | - Increment starts after 12-18 months of serving in the company. 35 | - Probation period is for three months. During this period, there will be a stipend to cover the minimum expenses. 36 | - Salary package will be evaluated based on the performance in the three months probationary period. 37 | 38 | ### Employment Policy 39 | - In case of a bond, any slippage/breakage in the bond will result in paying the company an amount of 50% of the original bond period’s amount. 40 | - Any breakage in the notice period, there will be a cost that will be incurred by you for the same. 41 | 42 | ### Notice Period 43 | - Skcript has a zero tolerance policy with interviewing at other places of occupation without prior acknowledgement. 44 | - Notice Period can be varying anywhere from a few hours to a maximum of 45 days. 45 | - Notice Period is decided by the management based, and depends on various factors. 46 | - A proper and complete Knowledge Transfer must be handed over. This includes intangible assets such as code resources, credentials, packages, libraries, documentation. 47 | 48 | ### Firing Policies 49 | - Stakeholders always reserve right of employment of team member. 50 | - Two consecutive weeks of underperformance 51 | - Reviewing performance will be the responsibility of company stakeholders, and/or the team members lead. 52 | - Multiple uninformed absences from work. 53 | - Working on unrelated work during course of employment. (except Open Source, no free lance work) 54 | 55 | ### Fair Use Policy 56 | - Skcript has zero tolerance over abuse of company property. 57 | - Skcript has zero tolerance over pirating content from the Internet or any other source in company’s premise or using company’s property. 58 | - Skcript holds all the rights to open official accounts in case of emergency. 59 | - When signing up for any online accounts, ONLY company emails are meant to be used. 60 | - Credentials of accounts (online or offline, connected to the official email) need to be shared with the company. 61 | 62 | ### Device Policy 63 | - Any devices except the company’s property, personal cell phone and tablet cannot be bought into the office. 64 | - Any company related authorizations, like email access, instant messaging when configured on a personal device, need to have prior approval. The company holds the right to terminate any such activity, anytime. 65 | - Any official account configured on a personal device, must have two-factor authentication enabled, and cannot be shared with anyone outside of the company. 66 | 67 | ### Company IP Policy 68 | - There cannot be copies of source code, or anything related to the company on places other than the company-owned devices. 69 | - Online code hosting accounts can not be accessed in public places, or on devices that are not company owned. 70 | - Company owned ideas can not be pitched/shared with outside members. 71 | - All terms in NDA must be adhered to at all times. 72 | 73 | ### Dress Code Policy 74 | - In case of a customer visit or any meeting that involves someone outside of the company, you must be well dressed and prepared for the occasion. 75 | - Modest and clean clothes need to be worn at all times. 76 | 77 | ### Health Policy 78 | - Health insurance can be availed from the company. 79 | - It is necessary for all employees to do a Master Health Checkup (MHC) every year. And the report has to be submitted to the company. 80 | - Company will bare 50% of the MHC’s cost. 81 | - Health activities will be matched by the company (upto INR 1000/month) 82 | - Yoga Classes 83 | - Gym 84 | - Sports training 85 | - Dance classes 86 | - Aerobics 87 | - Swimming 88 | - Karate 89 | 90 | ### Vehicle Usage Policy 91 | - Helmet is necessary for all employees owning a two wheeler. 92 | - Seatbelt is necessary for employees owning a four wheeler. 93 | - Employees with three wheelers are quite rare. We are still on the hunt for an auto coder. 94 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Policies/Code of Conduct.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Code of Conduct 2 | 3 | > This code of conduct applies to the Skcript team members in all of their community contributions they're making everyday. Their online communities include activities at Open source contributions, Twitter, Facebook, Slack, IRC, Email and many other areas. 4 | 5 | We are committed to creating an innovation oriented environment for everyone, regardless of the age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or professional experience. 6 | 7 | There is zero tolerance for harassment of team members or the community members in any form. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, color, sex (with or without sexual conduct and including pregnancy and sexual orientation involving transgender status/gender identity, and sex-stereotyping), national origin, age, disability (physical or mental), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, marital status, and political affiliation as well as gender expression, mental illness, socioeconomic status or background, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, computing experience, or clothing. Consider that calling attention to differences can feel alienating. Harassment does not need to be recognized as unwanted or unwelcome by anyone other than the person being harassed. 8 | 9 | We advice you to choose your words before you speak. Some jokes can be offensive, and are not appropriate. These kind of actions will not be tolerated at any level, under any circumstances. 10 | 11 | A person who's been asked to stop such activity is expected to comply to this policy immediately. Violating or disobeying this policy will end up in termination of that person's employment. External contributors violating these rules will be banned and removed from the community spaces, where Skcript exists. If you are being harassed, or notice that someone is being harassed, or have any other concerns regarding this, you will have to drop an email to Karthik (karthik@skcript.com), and the action will be very immediate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Policies/Employee Privacy.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Employee Privacy 2 | 3 | #### Email Privacy 4 | 5 | Email messages, including attachments, sent and received from a Skcript's email address are the property of Skcript. The company reserve the right to access, monitor, read, and/or copy email messages at any time, for any reason. You should not expect privacy for any email you send using your Skcript's official email, including messages that you consider to be personal or label with a designation such as “Personal” or “Private.” 6 | 7 | #### Use of Skcript Email for Personal Email 8 | 9 | Our email system is intended for official Company business. If you send personal messages through the Company’s email address, you must exercise discretion as to the number and type of messages you send. You must also ensure that your personal use of the email system does not interfere in any way with your job duties or performance. 10 | 11 | #### Internet Use Is Not Private 12 | 13 | We reserve the right to monitor employee use of the Internet at any time. You should not expect that your use of the Internet—including but not limited to the sites you visit, the amount of time you spend online, and the communications you have—will be private. Any abuse of the internet will not be tolerated. Downloading content through torrents will be constantly monitored. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Policies/Employment Policy.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Skcript Employment Policy 2 | 3 | Your employment with Skcript is at will. This means you are free to terminate your employment at any time, with or without cause and the company has a right to terminate your employment at any time as well, with or without cause. At the time of leaving the company, you are supposed to provide a notice-period of one month with all the knowledge transfer done to one of the team member. No one in the company other than the CEO has the authority to alter your at-will employment status or to enter into any agreement for employment for a specified period of time or to make any agreement contrary to this policy. Only the CEO of the company may do so, and the agreement will be a written copy signed by both you and the CEO. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Policies/Workplace Policy.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Workplace Policy 2 | 3 | We are a small team right now, and any decision we take everyday heavily depends on each and every team member working on great products. Sometimes, we take decisions very quickly, and if things are going in wrong direction, we turn back that decision as quickly as possible. While making such rapid decisions, we expect everyone to be present at the office participating in all the conversations that are going on. Because of this, we've put a lot of time and money in designing our office space, and strategically placing it in a place that's easily accessible to the team members. 4 | 5 | We expect the full-time team members to be at the office anywhere between 45 to 55 hours a week, and to be very punctual for team meetings. We also expect the full-time team members to be prepared for such meetings, and actively contribute to the topic that's being discussed. Every team member is an important contributor to the decisions we make and the path the product takes over the course of time. If someone has a consideration which requires them to be out of the office, they should get approval from the founding team as far in advance as possible. 6 | 7 | We are growing at a slow and steady pace, and we are very keen in hiring the best people on the planet. We hope to add more flexibility in working hours and such as we grow, but at this point of time, having face-to-face interactions at our office is very critical. The office is available for you to use 24x7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # RedBook 2 | 3 | ![Redbook Image](redbook.jpeg) 4 | 5 | Everyday, we work on ideas that are highly complex and solve problems that are still a challenge to the entire industry. To do that kind of work, we understand the importance of having an open, inclusive and collaborative culture. Over the past few months, we’ve invested a lot of time in exploring and experimenting different areas where we could innovate in terms of creating the most effective company culture. 6 | 7 | While these things sounds good on paper, it is far more difficult to implement, and adopt a new cultural idea in the company. But for the ones who’re joining our company, we use something called the RedBook, which gives them a glimpse of what they can expect and how the company works. 8 | 9 | We started working on the [#OpenCulture](https://twitter.com/SkcriptHQ/status/644131856334499841) project that encourages people to open-source their company culture to create one super huge book of culture to help other startups. 10 | 11 | 12 | ## Getting Started 13 | 14 | We are open-sourcing our culture documents and the contents of our RedBook in this repository. We are looking to open source the following documents: 15 | 16 | - Our Values 17 | - Mission Statement 18 | - Employment Policy 19 | - Holiday/Leave Policy 20 | - Support for Contribution 21 | - Sabbatical Policy 22 | - Code of Conduct 23 | - Employee Privacy 24 | - Welcome Letter 25 | - Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignment Agreement 26 | - Internal Hierarchy 27 | 28 | We will constantly approve pull requests and contributions to this repository. We believe that its very important to make the startups a better place, before we could make the world a better place. 29 | 30 | — [Karthik K](https://twitter.com/imkarthikk) 31 | 32 | 33 | ## Contents 34 | 35 | **Generic:** 36 | 37 | - [Values](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Values.md) 38 | - [Mission Statement](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Mission%20Statement.md) 39 | 40 | **Policies** 41 | 42 | - [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Policies/Code%20of%20Conduct.md) 43 | - [Employee Privacy](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Policies/Employee%20Privacy.md) 44 | - [Employment Policy](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Policies/Employment%20Policy.md) 45 | - [Workplace Policy](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Policies/Workplace%20Policy.md) 46 | 47 | **Perks** 48 | 49 | - [Holidays](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Perks/Holidays.md) 50 | - [Insurance](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Perks/Insurance.md) 51 | - [Sabbatical](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Perks/Sabbatical.md) 52 | - [Support for Contribution](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Perks/Support%20for%20Contribution.md) 53 | - [Vacations and Leaves](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Perks/Vacations%20and%20Leaves.md) 54 | 55 | **Letters & Documents** 56 | 57 | - [Acknowledgement of Receipt](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Letters%20%26%20Documents/Acknowledgment%20of%20Receipt.md) 58 | - [Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignment Agreement](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Letters%20%26%20Documents/EPIIAA.md) 59 | - [Hello Engineer](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Letters%20%26%20Documents/Hello%20Engineer.md) 60 | - [Welcome One Pager](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Letters%20%26%20Documents/Welcome%20One%20Pager.md) 61 | 62 | **Internal** 63 | 64 | - [Hierarchy](https://github.com/skcript/RedBook/blob/master/Internal/Hierarchy.md) 65 | 66 | 67 | ## Contributors 68 | 69 | We encourage as many people as possible to contribute to this repository to create a better startup ecosystem before we could change the world. Here are some of the people who’re actively contributing to this repository: 70 | 71 | - [Karthik K](https://github.com/imkarthikk) 72 | - [Swaathi K](https://github.com/swaathi) 73 | 74 | This project adheres to the [Open Code of Conduct][code-of-conduct]. By participating, you are expected to honor this code. 75 | 76 | [code-of-conduct]: http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/#RedBook/karthik@skcript.com 77 | 78 | 79 | ## License 80 | 81 | This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details. 82 | 83 | MIT License 84 | 85 | Copyright (c) 2018 Skcript 86 | 87 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 88 | of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal 89 | in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 90 | to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 91 | copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 92 | furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 93 | 94 | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 95 | copies or substantial portions of the Software. 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | ## About 100 | 101 |

102 | 103 | Redbook is maintained by Skcript. The names and logos for Skcript are properties of Skcript. 104 | 105 | We love open source, and we have been doing quite a bit of contributions to the community. Take a look at them [here][skcriptoss]. Also, encourage people around us to get involved in community [operations][community]. [Join us][hiring], if you'd like to see the world change from our HQ. 106 | 107 | [skcriptoss]: http://skcript.github.io/ 108 | [community]: http://discourse.skcript.com/ 109 | [hiring]: http://www.skcript.com/careers?utm_source=github 110 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Values.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ### Skcript Core Values 2 | 3 | **Move Fast.** 4 | Move quickly. Do not lag. Once a decision is made, execute on it as fast as possible. Ship quickly. Save words. Instead, implement and measure. Perfect is the enemy of good. 5 | 6 | **Change.** 7 | Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Nothing is sacred, everything is in a state of change. As individuals we should look to place ourselves in a position where we are learning and getting better every day. 8 | 9 | **Align yourself.** 10 | Constantly put yourself in a place where the best thing for you is the best thing for everyone else that you work with and for. 11 | 12 | **Be open and transparent.** 13 | Simplify your relationships. Lose the filter. Talk openly about what you care about and the problems you are dealing with. Get feedback to get better. 14 | 15 | **Stay focused.** 16 | Is the thing you are working on right now the most valuable thing you could be doing? A corollary to this: trust others to execute on their objectives so that you can stay focused on your own. 17 | 18 | **Smile more!** 19 | Have fun. Don’t regret. Don’t think too hard. Be optimistic. Assume the best. Things will work out — how could they not? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /redbook.jpeg: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skcript/RedBook/2ac34d3d79942f354ed00ac3dbc4ca728de4e1c0/redbook.jpeg --------------------------------------------------------------------------------