Cockroach Labs Blog

We are thrilled that EMC and VMWare executive Lorenzo Montesi has joined Cockroach Labs as our Chief Financial Officer. Lorenzo could not have joined our team at a better time, as we continue our rapid growth in the cloud data market.

RoacherPride is a conglomerate of both members of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies who come together to socialize, discuss issues that affect our community and adjacent communities, and work to educate the larger Cockroach Labs' community about LGBTQIA+ history and allyship.

Taking parental leave to welcome a child shouldn't be stressful. Here are some programs we've implemented for Roachers to make that transition a bit easier.

It is an absolute honor that, after the year we've all had, Cockroach Labs has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2021.

When you interview at Cockroach Labs, you get ample interview prep. We believe in fair and equitable interviewing, so we opened our interview process to help candidates succeed.

How Amruta Ranade, Technical Writer turned Developer Advocate, built the skills needed to reinvent her career and used the Cockroach Labs internal mobility program to make the transition.

How does Cockroach Labs view corporate charitable giving? Like a lot of things here, it's a team effort, and one that reflects our employees' values.

Let's reimagine the ending of the Titanic, both the ship's ending and the 1997 blockbuster film's. We’re going to look at the story through the lens of Kubernetes and distributed database technology to see how the story could have ended happily.

Learn how Infinite Colors, our employee resource group for neuro-diverse people, fulfills its mission to share resources about neuro-diversity in the workplace.

For many people, the past year has been straining. Neuro-diverse individuals have been particularly strained, having to balance their differences with all the changes happening around them. This post is collection of voices from Infinite Colors, Cockroach Labs' affinity group for neuro-diverse employees.

If you are a code newbie, you may be daunted by experienced developers' livestreams. Fear not! Here are five of our favorite beginner-friendly streamers to learn programming.

Our Technical Campus Recruiter shares what makes internships at Cockroach Labs unique.

CREWS (Cockroach Employees Who Support) are our employee support groups, and one small part of how we create an inclusive environment at Cockroach Labs.

The B2B sales team at Cockroach Labs is filled with women who are crushing their goals. They share five expert tips on how to build a career in technical sales.

Cockroach Labs is hiring people to work on CockroachDB from Sydney, Australia! If you're curious about me -- the lone Aussie -- my journey, and why I'm at Cockroach, read on.

POC@CRL is an employee-driven community focused on promoting professional and personal development and belonging for all people at Cockroach Labs.

Why Cockroach Labs offers equity to attract engineering interns and encourage them come back to our company when they graduate.

Connect and Contribute Days are a company-dedicated time for staff at Cockroach Labs to learn, seek understanding, volunteer, and make positive change.

We hosted several interns over the year across various engineering teams, all working on projects deserving of full-length blog posts. Today, however, we'll highlight two projects from our most recent batch and give a briefer treatment for the remaining.

With our team working from home these past months, we’ve had to think creatively on how to foster learning opportunities on our Engineering team, specifically: when you first join the company and day-to-day learning from each other.

We are proud to announce a new round of funding at a milestone valuation, which recognizes our rapid growth, happy customers, and emerging role as a leading cloud-native SQL database.

I’m a database nerd. Or, to be more precise, a DBMS nerd. But back in university, I avoided the Databases course at all costs.

We want to support our people’s development, empowering them to switch roles. We set up an internal mobility program to make it possible.

Weathering a pandemic is no easy feat. Maintaining productivity is even harder. We work hard to take care of our people, no matter where they work-from.

Babies produce a lot of.... data. On his recent parental leave, co-founder Ben Darnell built a side project to track his newborn's schedule via Fitbit.

Cockroach Lab's culture and workplace associate (aka Chief of Fun) waxes poetic on how we're keeping the team sane(ish) during COVID-19.

There's nothing worse than not knowing what to do at your first day on the job. That's why we've built a robust onboarding process, including personalized starter projects and welcome docs for each new hire.

At Cockroach Labs, we’re focusing on diversity and inclusion in our college and university recruiting. Here’s what we've learned so far.

Expressing gratitude and praise towards each other is deeply important to our culture. So we developed “peer acks”, our way of celebrating good work.

Cockroach Labs supports the development of employees through initiatives like Learning is Good, which I took advantage of to attend GopherCon 2019.

Amruta Ranade is a Senior Technical Writer on our Education team. Here's how she spends her flex Fridays at Cockroach Labs.

Transitioning to a new company isn't always comfortable. We’re making onboarding a team sport with many Roachers helping to get new hires up to speed.

Product Manager Lakshmi Kannan uses Flex Fridays for professional development and learning the ins and outs of CockroachDB.

Senior Product Designer Josué Rivera uses Flex Fridays to work on CockroachDB’s user experience and spend time on personal growth to reorient his emotional well-being.

Swati Kumar uses Flex Fridays to provide marketing advice to nonprofits who would otherwise be unable to afford it.

Engineer Matt Jibson uses Flex Fridays to work on side projects like sqlfmt, a SQL formatter, and to spend some time with his family.

Engineering manager Jordan Lewis uses Flex Fridays to work on engineering rather than management, to conduct his own experiments for CockroachDB.

Technical Marketer Sean Loiselle uses Flex Fridays to work on a Master’s in Computer Science and side projects like a learning management system for another startup.

Engineer Rebecca Taft uses Flex Fridays to prep for conferences and work on side projects such as a neural network query optimizer.

In order to make better hiring decisions, focus on making the engineering interview process more reflective of real-world engineering.

This has been a great year for the product's - and company’s - evolution as we launched 1.0 then our 1.1, and are now well on our way to CockroachDB 2.0!

Cockroach Labs has an open source interview format with questions provided online to candidates to reduce unconscious bias during interviews.

How to Work with Me allows me to accumulate tiny insights that make interacting with my colleagues and working in the office more dynamic and comfortable.

By redefining the hiring process using exercise based interviews and removing resumes, we create a fairer process that leads to better hiring decisions.

The interviews at Cockroach Labs are exercise-based, focused on practical, day-in-the-life style work tasks without the bias of resumes.

Diversity in tech is dismal and a lot of it comes down unconscious biases. We're fighting unconscious bias Cockroach Labs, starting with our hiring process.

How are we building a business around open source software, and how are we building Cockroach Labs to ensure CockroachDB endures?

Most founders agree that one of the greatest challenges that they face isn’t raising money or closing deals. Turns out, hiring for startups is hard.

To understand why we instituted a 4-day work week in the first place, consider what sort of product we're building. CockroachDB requires abstract thinking..