Life at Norveon

How We Hire Engineers
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How We Hire Engineers

Take-home assignments felt fair until we realized they were filtering out good engineers for the wrong reasons. Here's the hiring process we run at Norveon today, and why we think it works better.

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How We Run Standup Meetings (It's Not a Daily Scrum)
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How We Run Standup Meetings (It's Not a Daily Scrum)

We don't do Scrum, but we love daily standups. Here's the format we've iterated on for years. No boards, no status reports, no one forced to speak.

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Every Startup Team Org We Tried (And Why They All Broke)
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Every Startup Team Org We Tried (And Why They All Broke)

Watched a client reorganize their engineering team five different ways in two years. Here's what actually happened with each approach.

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Android 16KB Page Sizes: Our Migration Rollercoaster
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Android 16KB Page Sizes: Our Migration Rollercoaster

Google's November 1st deadline for 16KB page size support looked simple on paper. Then we actually tried to do it. Here's what really happened when we migrated Arheev Mobile, complete with late-night debugging sessions and libraries that just wouldn't cooperate.

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When Your Team Gets Too Big: Here's What Actually Worked
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When Your Team Gets Too Big: Here's What Actually Worked

Our team hit 14 people and standups turned into 45-minute slogs. We tried splitting into frontend/backend, async updates, rotating leads. All failed. Here's what actually helped.

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Why Norveon Went Fully Remote (And Why We're Not Going Back)
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Why Norveon Went Fully Remote (And Why We're Not Going Back)

We've been fully remote since day one. Not because of COVID, not because it's trendy, but because trying to build a software company any other way seemed pointless. Here's what two years of full-remote and years of distributed work before that actually taught us.

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We Became the Startup We Wanted to Work With
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We Became the Startup We Wanted to Work With

For years we helped other startups build products. Then we started building Arheev and realized we'd been giving everyone else advice we weren't following ourselves. Here's what happened when we had to eat our own dog food.

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How a Small Team Builds Products (Without Losing Our Minds)
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How a Small Team Builds Products (Without Losing Our Minds)

We're not a big company. Fourteen people, fully remote, building Arheev and client projects simultaneously. Here's how we actually work when there's no process manual to hide behind.

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We Built an HR Platform (Because Spreadsheets Were Killing Us)
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We Built an HR Platform (Because Spreadsheets Were Killing Us)

After tracking our own team's time off in Google Sheets since we started, we finally snapped and built Arheev. Launching it on February 22, 2025 felt like shipping something half-finished. Because it kind of is.

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