A great filter for early company employees is the ability to deal with ambiguity, messiness

The work is an amorphous blob the company needs you on 

Some people need things in neat boxes, and seek order from process that isn't there (and shouldn't be!)

product builder, systems thinker :: interested in design, complexity, the history of science :: www.resextensa.co :: colemanm.org

Process should emerge from necessity, not be imposed early by outsiders 

Reminds me of a quote from one of the engineers on TCP/IP, during the debate over standards:

"Standards should be discovered, not decreed"

I feel the same about corporate process and systems