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<aside> ☝ Last updated: March 23, 2021

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Polarr's Company Perks are ever evolving. This document provides an overview of the the current company perks. If you have suggestions, thoughts, comments about Perks, please reach out to our People Team.

For reimbursement policies and process, read ‣.

♾ Learning and Development

• Master Class, for learning about anything from photography, playing poker, cooking, composing music etc. How to access: 1Password.

• Setapp, for using high quality paid apps on your Mac. How to access: 1Password.

• The information, for high quality paid news in Silicon Valley, How to access: 1Password.

• Deep Learning Online Courses by Nvidia, for all things DL related from zero to advanced. How to access: ask for @Borui Wang for a seat, we have 200 seats in total.

• Amazon Books, we will reimburse employees up to $100 per book. We will not reimburse the books that fall into the categories of fictions, graphics novels, art magazines, or any other categories deemed unrelated to professional development. Please refer to the ‣. Reimbursed books can be related to the following topics:

  • Startups
  • Business Strategy
  • Learning about A.I.
  • Design and UX
  • Programming.

• Conferences, Polarr will cover 100% of the costs for any conferences that the company requests team members to attend.

  Polarr will sponsor up to 70% of the cost/fees for each full time team member to attend 2 conferences of their choice per year that have a duration of 4 days or less**.**

  Eligible Expenses include:

  • Hotel
  • Flights and ground transportation to and from the venue
  • Conference tickets/Fees
  • Meal

  These conferences must be related to improving your work at Polarr, thus we won't sponsor conferences for gaming/movies/pr/product-release/entertainment unrelated to advancing your work at Polarr. **A write up/KB article/internal workshop on the conference will be required within a month after you finish said conference.**Conference participation dates won't be counted against your paid time-off.

  Team Member Selected Conference Request Approval Process

  Good conferences to join

• Polarr Scholarship, for full time team member who wish to go to high education related to his or her professional work in Polarr (Graduate School, Master Programs, Online-degrees, Summer camps, Week-long workshops, Language Education, excluding PhDs and MBAs) while still able to maintain working at Polarr full-time. Polarr will sponsor 70% of the tuition fee portion of such program. Note that such programs might need board approval depending on program details, ask @Borui Wang for more details.

Please note that Polarr will pay for 100% of above mentioned fee if the request is made by Polarr but not the employee. (For example if Polarr decided that it would be beneficial for an employee to take a class or go to a conference)

🏡 Living

• PTO: All full time team members are eligible for 20 days of paid vacation per year in addition to major national holidays in your country of work. Please review the detailed time off policy and reporting procedure at ‣
• WFH: If you are based out either the SF/Bay Area or Shenzen office, you may work from home up to 1 day a week in addition to WFH Friday's. Full policy details can be found at Remote Working. Understand that WFH is a privilege, not a right for all our team members. We trust you to act in the best interest of Polarr when you are WFH.
• Remote work: Not local? Depending on your role and/or job function, you may be eligible to join Polarr as a remote employee. Full policy details can be found at Remote Working.
  • Internet: Polarr will reimburse full time team members the monthly cost of your home internet plan up to 300Mbps.
• Gym: Polarr will reimburse full time employees and full time contractors up to $100.00 per month gym membership in your area.