Although there's a great deal of diversity among Egressive's crew, as a general rule individuals working with us at Egressive possess a set of common characteristics, and we look for these in all new employees:

• fundamental affinity for software and technology,
• an appreciation of the open source culture,
• a basic good nature, thoughtfulness,
• community minded - embracing the concept of ubuntu,
• complete reliability/trustworthiness,
• attention to detail (e.g. good grammar, appropriate dress) - tidiness and almost religious consistency (this generally only becomes important to those who, at some point in the past, have been forced to work with someone else's untidy, uncommented code),
• constructive curiosity and energy to "try stuff" - most of the world's most interesting innovations have been the result of somebody just "foolin' around" when they were supposed to be doing something else,
• an appreciation of simple pleasures like good food and coffee.

In return, we at Egressive believe in rewarding each other for extra effort, generosity, and the results of "fun hacks" which might have useful applications. Rewards typically take the form of food, beer or coffees although cash prizes are awarded on occasion.

Our Motivation

Egressive is first and foremost a collection of talented people. It is the colour of the shared culture to which each of us contributes his or her part. We come from many backgrounds with distinct personalities, but we share a few fundamental traits on both technical and interpersonal levels: a love of understanding and accomplishment, admiration of generosity, cleverness, elegance, and honesty.

We all endeavour to avoid artifice, poor design, bad coffee, and proprietary lock-in. We enjoy hooking into a new challenge, a good lunch with friends/colleagues, discussions wandering amongst topics like programming languages and web application frameworks to the global ramifications of peak oil and global warming to the outrageous price of beer in Nordic countries with socialist economies and high rates of alcoholism to the callous indifference and disdain with which many Christchurch drivers seem regard the road code and all cyclists.