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We’re looking for a talented, resourceful, and creative chef who’s equally good at cooking, training, and coming up with ideas.
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Choosing who to work with isn’t so different from choosing a group of friends. We avoid superficial traits, look for shared values & interests, and find ways to nurture the relationship long-term. It goes without saying that we’re also looking for the right skills and talents.
Our rule of thumb is to only work with people we like and respect. That only plays out if everyone practiced kindness, self-awareness, dependability, honesty, and a genuine concern for the well-being of the team.
Do we have a shared view of people and the world?
Are we both working towards the same destination?
Do you have the right talents & skills to help our team?
Above all however, we still place considerable weight on performance. To keep on building a better team, we need to find the right people and put them in the right places. One of the key things we’re looking for is a track record of success and leadership: if you’ve had significant success, achievements, self-started initiatives, or leadership in any kind of field (sports, academics, a hobby, etc.), that would be a big boon to your application.
Most people understand basic values that all companies look for: honesty, hardwork, generosity, etc. But we’d like to point out two that aren’t frequently discussed.
The first is tolerance. We believe people should be given the choice of how they want to live their lives. We don’t tolerate any sort of oppressive views or behaviors: racial, social, gender-based, or political. We want to create a safe place to work and this means respecting people and their personal choices. (Unless those personal choices oppress others, then we’ll need to intervene.)
The second is rationality. We don’t bring any sort of anti-science, religious, or superstitious beliefs to our workplace. In this day and age, this shouldn’t be necessary to mention, but we get our fair share of over-zealous applicants.
We hire for attitude & fit, not for experience and degrees. Because of this, we generally hire inexperienced but talented people, so we spend a lot of time training.
However it’s important to note that we don’t do lengthy, university-style classes or workshops.
People learn faster when simply hurled into the pool. This means that all new hires need to prefer googling things over waiting for a savior with answers. We prefer people who know how to help themselves.
Our training process mostly involves repetitive and frequent feedback. We let everyone do the work, screw up, get feedback, and try again. To those who are quick on their feet, they get good in no time.
We don’t have an office and we run a completely remote team, but that doesn’t mean we take it easy.
We like working with people who value getting good & doing great work above most things. Having a hunger to succeed is a non-negotiable trait.
Conversely, we see rest as an equally stubborn need. We avoid unsustainable work practices such as habitual all-nighters or never-ending notifications whenever possible. We respect breaks and everyone (except the people in our restaurants who need a fixed schedule) gets no-questions-asked vacations when they need to.
We have several work-life principles that we follow, but here are the 3 most important ones: (1) Work as much as you can without burning yourself out, (2) Your work is measured by your contribution, not your time, (3) The people who see work as investing in themselves will naturally advance faster than those who don’t.
In short, the more time you spend learning and the harder/smarter you work, the faster your career will grow. And if you prefer a milder pace, that’s okay—but if you get left behind, and you’ll need to take responsibility for that.
Some people apply for work at Lowbrow because they think it’s fun and easy. Those aren’t the right reasons —we’re working because we want to get better and build something great.
Working at Lowbrow is challenging. You’ll need to get used to being in a frustrating state of failing, evaluating yourself, and figuring out how to get better. Unfortunately this kind of struggle is the only way to grow.
What about having fun? We do! (Because we work with people we like!) But it’s part of the journey and not the destination. Fun should only be a side effect of doing great work—not the other way around.
We’re a small and young team. We’re only 6 people in the core team, with an average age of 26 if you don’t count the old(er) boss.
We come from very different backgrounds, but despite our differences, we get along very well and genuinely look out for each other’s success.
Most workplaces have some form of internal politics, and we’re proud to say that we don’t. We’ve done this methodically over the years by making it a habit to talk things out and only keeping the people who won’t let the team spiral into a toxic blackhole.
Having a team that has your back and wants the best for you feels great, and it’s something that we can say we have.
Since we’re not a large corporation swimming in cash, we don’t offer a lot of fancy benefits. (Would be nice in the future though.) We do have the mandatory ones: SSS and Philhealth.
Aside from that, we have:
To get hired, we’ll need to go through an interview. To get an interview, you’ll need to do the following:
If we’re interested in hiring you, we’ll send a response within 48 hours, and set a possible interview within one to two weeks.
We build & run thoughtful restaurants in Manila with high standards and a sense of humor. Read about us.