HACKER Q&A
📣 LewisVerstappen

What companies have publicly available handbooks?


I know of

- Gitlab - PostHog

Are there any others with publicly available handbooks?


  👤 kalendos Accepted Answer ✓
I keep a list of public company handbooks here: https://publish.obsidian.md/davidgasquez/Company+Handbooks.

👤 vippy
TTS at GSA: https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov (Yes, we got Vim listed on a government website: https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov/tools/text-editors/)

👤 pvnp
I enjoyed going through the cal. com handbook [1]. It provides a very high overview of the code base as well if that's of interest to you. There entire company is being built in public so it provides a great level of visibility into their operations [2].

[1] https://handbook.cal.com/

[2] https://cal.com/open



👤 jonas-w
Not really publicly available, but an ex employee leaked the LinusTechTips / Linus Media Group employee handbook https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/115ucm3/ltt_... (at the end of the post)





👤 lejboua

👤 ghiculescu
Technically not a handbook, but recently I’m writing up a lot of the ideas we’ve been using to operate Workforce.com @ https://ghiculescu.substack.com. Hoping to turn it into a real book!

👤 rswerve
Trussworks https://guide.truss.works/

We're a remote-first consultancy, and that link includes our handbook, onboarding guide, and guidelines for open-sourcing our work.


👤 shivam-baghla
I know Gitlab has publish their completely remote culture handbook.

👤 swyx

👤 bobbbbbbbbb
Student, tradesman, expert.

Some, many and very few, reach enlightenment, and invent stuff.

Many and very few corporations, get the opportunity to intercept the creation = legally, according to "corporate laws", opposite to "man laws", copyright those creations.

Many and very few of those inventions end up written in a book.

Many Books and very few are real.

This is why no company can have publicly available handbook - unless this company follows some of the creative commons laws.



👤 irrational
Huh, I work for a huge Fortune 500 company and TIL that we don't really have a unified handbook. If you want to look up something (like paid time off) you have to go find where the web page for that thing is, which is probably in an entirely different part of the intranet site from something else (like official holidays).




👤 rcoder
HashiCorp: https://works.hashicorp.com (not exactly an "employee handbook" with HR policies + etc., but a decent look into the intentional culture)

👤 Jehuty64
Infinum - digital agency | https://infinum.com/handbook/

Every team (Android, iOS, Frontend, .NET, Design, Flutter, Rails, WordPress) has their own.


👤 jayofdoom
I think there were some internal docs too, but all Okta's HR stuff is on a public website: https://rewards.okta.com/



👤 connordoner

👤 MollyRealized
Are you looking for curiosity's sake, or for models for drafting your own?

👤 vadman97