Duolingo Culture — Map of Content

The handbook treats culture as load-bearing, not aspirational. Two principles (Raise the Bar, Ship It) and one operating model (The Green Machine) describe how Duolingo decides who to hire, how to run a team, and when to add process. This skill packages the operating manual.

This skill is structured as a graph: scan the descriptions below, follow only the [[wikilinks]] you need.

The operating model

• [[references/green-machine]] — the six-step build/measure/learn loop Duolingo runs the company on.
• [[references/clock-speed]] — minimizing the gap between steps; the company-wide tempo metric.

Talent

• [[references/talent-density]] — "better a hole than a hire that lowers the bar."
• [[references/hire-slow-fire-fast]] — the protocol for both directions.
• [[references/candor-what-not-who]] — feedback rule that lets criticism survive at scale.

Process