Harvey

The last few years have seen a considerable amount of growth for Harvey, making it more important than ever that we build not just a product our customers can trust, but also a company and culture our employees believe in. At a lot of companies, values are posters that hang on a wall but are not infused into how the organization operates. We want Harvey’s values to be a commitment to our customers, a testament to our ambition, and a leading indicator to our candidates and employees on the culture we aim to build. Below are the three values that are foundational to our culture and team.

Decisiveness
We are operating on the bleeding edge of the most transformative technology in human history. We do not have cycles to waste on overcomplicating simple questions or analyzing a future state that will change in a few weeks or months. We value deliberate action over ivory tower intellectualization. Internally, we refer to it as “taking the square root of the weather.” When you’re moving as fast as we need to, we need to be able to check the weather, move forward, and avoid wasting time overanalyzing items that are not mission-critical.

Simplicity
The technology that powers our product is complex, as are the challenges our clients face every day. But our solutions can’t be. We believe complexity appreciates and simplicity scales, so we value leaders and individuals who identify clear first principles and apply them to our daily decisions, big and small. We strive for simple communication, products, and services.

Job’s Not Finished (JNF)
As a company, we recognize that there is always more we can do to solve our clients’ biggest challenges and to make our products and services as powerful as possible. As individuals, our team is comprised of people who want to be the best at what they do and are never satisfied with the status quo. We recognize that no one owes us anything—we have to earn the opportunities ahead of us.

Standout Strengths

Top 2% for Promotion rate - significantly above average.

Top 2% for Pay growth - significantly above average.

Top 13% for IC autonomy - significantly above average.

Top 14% for Transparency with ICs - significantly above average.

Areas of Concern

Bottom 2% for Vacation taken - significantly below average.

Top 8% for PIP risk - well above the typical rate.

Bottom 9% for Climate commitment - significantly below average.

Bottom 12% for DEI meaningfulness - significantly below average.

How well does Harvey adhere to its principles?

Higher than 81% of companies · median 44

Where do ideas come from?

Higher than 71% of companies · median 36

Organizational Power

Employee count

1,462

Average Hours Worked

59

Pace

Higher than 99% of companies · median 63

Remote Friendly?

In-Person Primary

How Information Shared

Email/Messaging

Compensation Relative to Market

Higher than 85% of companies · median 118

AI Insights:
Harvey runs on caffeine, urgency, and the unshakeable belief that legal AI will save the world by Tuesday. Expect brilliant, intense colleagues, free dinner because you are staying late anyway, and a roadmap that gets rewritten more often than a first-year associate's memo. It is genuinely rewarding if you thrive on chaos, and genuinely exhausting if you do not. Bring a sleeping bag and a sense of humor.

AI stack

Proprietary legal LLM fine-tunes | Claude | GPT models | Internal retrieval/reasoning stack | Various AI tools for internal use

AI maturity

Higher than 81% of companies · median 60

Detailed Compensation Information

Levels.FYI

Review Comments

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