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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 and the 4-day work week to work on side projects like a SQL formatter and spend some time with his family while exploring NYC.

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 and the 4-day work week prepping for conferences and working 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.

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

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..