Working At Order Desk

Notes From Our Sixth Retreat: Mauritius, A Missing Suitcase, And Why We Keep Doing This

Posted by Madison Schidlowski on May 27, 2026 | Featured
Order Desk is a fully remote team spread across 12 countries. So for 51 weeks of the year, our work happens through Slack, Zoom calls, and the occasional voice note recorded between school runs and morning coffees. It’s a setup … Read More

Xin Cháo: Our 2025 Retreat

Posted by Candice Lewis on August 22, 2025 | Featured
This year, we reunited our (nearly) entire team in Da Nang, Vietnam, for our annual company retreat. Since our last get-together, we’d welcomed three new Order Deskians (yes, that’s our not-so-secret nickname), and it was an absolute joy to finally … Read More

How Order Desk Does Hiring Differently

Posted by Jamilah Wall on May 24, 2024 | Featured
Looking for a job is a job. Many of us who’ve found ourselves in the job market aren’t there because we want to be. We’re tired. We’re stressed. We’re burnt out. And then we paint on a smile and write … Read More

Retreat 2024: A Tale of Two Time Zones

Posted by Dan Valenzuela on May 6, 2024 | Featured
As a fully remote company, one of the things we look forward to the most is our annual retreat. Well, sometimes it isn’t quite as annual as we’d like it to be thanks to travel restrictions from a certain global … Read More

Order Desk Gives Back: Hoa Mai Orphanage and Clean The World

Posted by Adam Walker on April 22, 2024 | Featured
When we first started having company retreats, one of the goals that we quickly established was to leave our host cities better than we found them. So in 2024, when we had the opportunity to split our retreat into two … Read More

5 Benefits of Choosing a Remote Career

Posted by Candice Lewis on September 8, 2023 | Featured
Remote work offers great advantages for those who find it appealing. Here are some reasons why remote work is the bomb (in our humble, Y2K-laced opinion, of course). I am truly passionate about the topic of remote work and could … Read More

The Perks of Working at Order Desk

Posted by Candice Lewis on July 7, 2023 | Featured
We are incredibly grateful to have a team that values work-life balance as much as we do at Order Desk. It’s not just something we preach, it’s something we embody and live every day. Our company prioritizes your family life … Read More

Retreat 2023: Wish You Were Here!

Posted by Dan Valenzuela on April 6, 2023 | Featured
Recently the Order Desk team had a chance to do something we haven’t done in a very long time: a company retreat. In fact it’s been three years since the last time we were able to get together, and the … Read More

Rutabagas and What It’s Like to Reject 2,000 People for a Single Role at the Same Time

Posted by Dan Schenker on November 9, 2021 | Featured
Editor’s note: Typically, we post news about Order Desk, our ecommerce order management app. This post falls outside of our normal scope of content, however since many of our users are small businesses, we want to be real about the … Read More