Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company?
I&#x27;m a Dev Manager but started as a mid-senior developer at my current company (now about 350 people). We grew a lot by acquisition and one thing I noticed was many &quot;cultural silos&quot; that made it hard to build a shared, unifying identity. Myself and another developer worked to try and address this with a lot of small things focused on cutting across teams &amp; groups: a book club-style bi-weekly discussion, &quot;Tech Talks&quot; from across the teams to diverse audiences, some hackathons and making online conferences (MS, AWS, Google, Etc) into company events. Literally things that &quot;make people spend time with people outside their direct team&quot;. It&#x27;s been pretty successful and pushed lots of new initiatives in some unexpected areas.<p>So my advice would be to look for a broader area where you see a gap or failing, and then look for ways to address this that don&#x27;t need a huge investment of people or resources; guerilla activities FTW! If you can show some success, you can then pursue as appropriate&#x2F;desired...