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What they do

Linear makes a product development tool for software teams. It has issue tracking, projects, roadmaps, customer requests, and AI agents. More than 40,000 companies use it. Linear started in 2019, and it is small, profitable, and hires slowly.

What they value

• Craft, with real depth and attention to details.
• Judgment about tradeoffs with incomplete information.
• Ownership of a problem from start to finish.
• Clarity in how people explain their thinking.
• Building over managing.
• Growth rate over credentials.

Where they hire

Linear is remote-first. Roles are open to people in North American or European time zones. Optional coworking spaces are in San Francisco, New York, London, and Berlin. The company meets once a year at an offsite.

Teams and roles

Small teams of two to four people form around a project and disband when it ships. Project leads rotate and are often engineers or designers.

• Engineering: product and full-stack work, including AI features, in React, MobX, a GraphQL API, and Linear's own real-time sync engine.
• Design: senior, principal, and mobile product designers.
• Product: PMs do discovery through user interviews, research, and data analysis.
• Other teams: product marketing, developer relations, and production design for marketing.

Go-to-market roles cover sales, solutions engineering, customer success, implementation, and support. The company has a zero-bugs policy, uses no OKRs or A/B tests, and writes short specs.

What they look for

Engineers take a feature from idea to shipped and work well in a lean, async team. Strong candidates talk to users and explain their thinking simply. People judge their own work and ask for feedback. Most processes have three or four interviews. Every role ends with a paid work trial of two to five days on a real project.