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INSIGHTS Company Culture Remote Work Retreat, rebrand, reimagine: Building a bold new future in Prague Our annual company retreat took place in Prague, where we worked on rebranding our company and reimagining our future. Discover the next chapter of our story. INSIGHTS Company Culture Teams Engineering Our journey to a tailored Engineering Career Framework Discover how Nutrient developed a unique Engineering Career Framework to foster individual growth and organizational success, offering insights and practical tips for building your own career development system.

INSIGHTS Company Culture Remote Work Bonding in Budapest: A celebration of our collective journey A look back at our recent retreat in Hungary and the balance of work and fun with colleagues. INSIGHTS Culture Productivity Sonus Vox A comparison of different microphone categories. INSIGHTS Culture Insights Unleashing the Beta Beast: Introducing the Mind-Reading Q&A Tool An OpenAI-based Q&A tool that answers your questions about PSPDFKit. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Navigating Remote Onboarding: A Software Developer's Perspective An in-depth look at onboarding as a software developer, including tips and tricks to make it easier. INSIGHTS Culture Insights Tech writer’s chatbot adventure Explore the humorous tale of a tech writer's quest to build a chatbot with OpenAI, filled with challenges and unexpected results. DEVELOPMENT Culture Insights Development My Engineering Transition from Mobile to Backend A peek into the process of an engineer switching teams at PSPDFKit.

DEVELOPMENT Culture Productivity Development A Perfect Gift Learn how to modify a mechanical keyboard DEVELOPMENT Android Web Development Culture Road to Polyglot Development A blog post outlining my transition to polyglot development for the web. INSIGHTS Company Culture Remote Work My second retreat: From a bootstrapped startup, to a company of 100+ Discover insights from our recent PSPDFKit retreat as we reflect on our growth and transformations since our last gathering. COMPANY NEWS Culture Remote Work The Many Pets of PSPDFKit AKA: Pspsps, come here PSPDFKittens

COMPANY NEWS Culture Remote Work The Terminal Setups of PSPDFKit How the engineers building an industry-leading SDK use the command line. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work The Case for Ad Hoc Engineer 1:1s with Newcomers Or, the unspoken challenges of onboarding engineers in 2020 and beyond. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity While We Work: How We Stay Productive Some people at PSPDFKit share their tips for being productive. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work How We Forge Togetherness As a remote-first company, we fully understand that to work well together, we have to create connections and understand each other.

INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Insights Where We Work A blog post showing a glimpse of where our people work. INSIGHTS Culture Insights Our Journey toward Using More Inclusive Language at PSPDFKit A blog post about why and how we are trying to use more inclusive language. INSIGHTS Culture Productivity Sponsoring CocoaPods PSPDFKit is sponsoring the costs of hosting the CocoaPods CND. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Tips Tips to navigate remote work challenges Discover strategies to overcome challenges when working from home, including tips on motivation, communication, and staying productive. INSIGHTS Culture Support Insights Becoming a Better Engineer by Doing Support How being on support duty helps me improve as an engineer, and why I think everyone should try it.

INSIGHTS Culture Insights Tips From zero to hero: How I got a full-time job in tech A political scientist turned web engineer describes her journey of transformation. She also reveals a few aspects that can make or break an internship in tech (and in general). INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Insights How We Work at PSPDFKit A post about how we work at PSPDFKit. DEVELOPMENT Culture Productivity Insights Development WWDC for First-Timers, 2019 Edition Here's how to get the most out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference. COMPANY Culture PDFium Contributing to Google's PDFium A little inside look at which PDF engine we use and why. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Insights Lessons from a decade of remote work Explore key lessons and tips from a software engineer's 10 years in remote work, including overcoming challenges and finding the right company. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work How PSPDFKit succeeds at being a remote company How a culture of trust, flexibility, discipline, and camaraderie helps us succeed. INSIGHTS Culture My first PSPDFKit retreat A freelancer is invited to her first PSPDFKit retreat. In this blog post, she shares her experience. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Sleep Can't concentrate during the day? Sleep may be the key to ensuring you do. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Recreation Focus on making the most of life outside your work in an effort to improve your working life. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Work Do we spend our working hours efficiently, or can we optimize the way we work? INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Mindfulness in modern work Explore how modern work-life balance can enhance efficiency and mindfulness in our daily routine, beyond the traditional eight-hour workday.

INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Effective Remote Communication Communication is hard — especially for remote companies. Here's how we organize communication at PSPDFKit. INSIGHTS Culture Insights Swift by Sundell Podcast with Peter Steinberger On July 19, our CEO, Peter Steinberger, was interviewed by John Sundell on his Swift by Sundell podcast. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips How to Use Slack and Not Go Bananas Slack is both amazing and awful. At a time when many companies quit Slack, we refined our processes to make it work well for us.

INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work 4 steps to a successful company retreat INSIGHTS Culture Insights Women in Software Development? YES PLEASE! We celebrate International Women's Day at PSPDFKit! DEVELOPMENT Culture UI/UX Development Everybody Designs: An Agile Approach to Design How PSPDFKit uses an agile approach for design work INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Insights What Cultural Diversity Means to Us Our execution of cultural diversity INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Making the Most of Remote Work At PSPDFKit, we strive to hire the best people for the job, regardless of where they are in the world. Here, I want to share how I’ve been making the most of remote work. COMPANY Culture Insights 2016 In Review 2016 has been our most successful, exciting and overall transforming year so far since the inception of PSPDFKit as a company.

INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Hiring a distributed team Who you hire can have a dramatic effect on your team’s culture, company’s productivity and, overall, is the most influential factor in determining the success or failure of a company. Over the past six years at PSPDFKit, we’ve slowly learned what’s important, what works, and what doesn’t work, at least for us. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work The importance of retreats for a remote company