Max Hakanson: Culture at Cavi

I just completed my second week at Cavi Consulting and my experience so far at this unique company has been great.  It has been a relatively slow start to the summer with the amount of work I have done due to the fact that the interns were still going through training and getting accustomed with the work and culture at Cavi.  Cavi’s culture and structure is very unique in several ways. To start, one glaring difference between Cavi and a stereotypical company is that Cavi is a fully remote company. This means that all employees and interns do their work individually and communicate through phone calls, email, Slack, online task boards, and occasionally in person meetings.  The task board that Cavi uses, Trello, allows for team members to communicate about the specifics of projects and allows for people to assign projects to themselves if they are interested in doing so.

The other main unique feature about Cavi is how non-hierarchical the company is.  Unlike many traditional consulting companies, members of the Cavi team are given a ton of autonomy.  This allows for team members to take on tasks that they are interested in doing, rather than being assigned tasks that they really don’t have any interest in completing.   This means that everyone is responsible for assigning themselves projects, and then creating a team and implementing a leader to best achieve said project.

The autonomy given to the team members definitely reflects the overall culture at Cavi.  It promotes a forum where everyone feels free to say what’s on their mind, without being judged for doing so.  The employees at Cavi seem to be very close to each other and the dynamic reminds me more of a sports team, rather than a company.  The team members seem to genuinely enjoy the work they are doing and seem to really love Cavi.  Many of the team members at Cavi have been there from the start of the company, so this company means a lot to them and they all want to see it grow and succeed.