Small team. Big snooker table. The actual rhythm of a day at Skcript.

The vibe

Still small. On purpose.

Skcript still feels like a small company, because it is.

Everyone eats at the same food court, sits at the same kind of desk, and argues over the same snooker table. Topics range from the trivial to the technical — and it's not surprising to hear someone say, "I shipped that feature last Thursday, let me walk you through it."

Little hierarchy. Everyone wears several hats. Because everyone realises they're equally important to Skcript's success, nobody hesitates to challenge a founder over a game of carrom.

The office, in pieces

A tour of the place.

Snooker breaks, daily tea runs, a bookshelf nobody manages, food whenever. Small details that add up to a workplace.

01

The snooker table

A full-sized snooker table lives in the middle of it all. Half the architectural decisions at Skcript get argued over a break shot. The other half get settled after the 8-ball drops.

02

Food, whenever

Dosa, biryani, ramen, ice cream, shawarma — somebody downstairs is always open. We don't expect anyone to work odd hours. We just make sure that if your best work happens at an odd hour, hunger isn't the thing that stops it.

03

Daily tea runs

Twice a day. Non-negotiable. The whole team walks down for chai. Problems get unstuck between the escalator and the tea stall more often than they do in a meeting room.

04

Direct access to founders

No executive floor. No assistant to route through. The CEO sits at the same kind of desk as the intern who joined last Monday. If you have a question, walk over and ask it.

05

Game time

Console plugged in. Board games in the cabinet. Carrom on the side. If someone's thinking, let them think — sometimes the thinking happens over a round of Mario Kart.

06

The bookshelf

Borges, Tufte, Kahneman, Rand, Murakami. Take one home. Bring it back when you're done. Or don't — we keep buying replacements.

From:Karthik Kamalakannan, karthik@skcript.com
To:Karthik Kamalakannan, karthik@skcript.com
Date:Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 11:42PM

The snooker table is not a perk.

It's the architecture review meeting.
It's where we figure out whether
the thing we're building is worth building.
Between shots. Over chai.
While someone is missing an obvious pot.

Don't ever turn it into a gimmick.
Don't put it in a recruiting deck.
Don't post a picture of it.
Just keep it where it is.
Centrally placed. Always free.

The food downstairs is not a perk either.
It's not there to keep anyone late.
It's there because best work
doesn't always happen between 9 and 6.
And when it doesn't,
we don't want hunger to be the thing
that gets in the way.

The same goes for the tea runs.
The bookshelf nobody manages.
The console nobody asked HR to approve.
The desk that doesn't have your name on it
because nobody has assigned seating.

None of it is decoration.
All of it is how we think.

If somebody ever asks
"what's the perks list at Skcript",
tell them we don't have one.
We have a place we want to be at.
Mostly because the people in it
are the ones we want to be around.

Keep it that way.
Don't let it become a brochure.
Don't let it become a benefit.
Just keep it real.

Karthik

Stories from Skcript

Behind the build.

Come by

Or better
— come work.

If any of this sounds like your kind of place, there's a desk near the snooker table with your name on it.