Can you create corporate culture?
The original intent of this blog entry was to praise the wonderful and talented staff that we have here at uptime software, at least until I mentioned it to a staff member. I was promptly told that the smart ones are going to think I'm simply puffing them up and will quickly see through the ruse. It's been a little weird to stand up at a company townhall and say we're great ("uptime rocks!") as a motivator and then have all the staff look at you and declare "yeah, we know, we're here every day?" This brings up company culture and the difference between "saying it, and living it" (show, don't tell). Whenever new-hires come on board, within the first few days, there invariably is a comment like "wow, you guys are really happy here." This inclusive culture extends to our tele-commuters as well.
Something else that's really good for us is that referrals from the tech community started to happen a few years ago. We're pulling great talent from other local software businesses. People like it here because we are a performance oriented organization and smart work (not necessarily long hours) gets recognized. Opinions and dissent are encouraged, as everybody has a very clear picture of what kind of business we want to be. At our operations meetings, if everything seems to be going okay and everybody agrees, then we know that something is wrong or we're not challenging ourselves enough. A while ago, our development manager was telling one of his staff about voicing opposition to "stupid ideas," and how it took our dev manager a long time to realize that telling his boss (me at the time) he had a stupid idea was perfectly acceptable.
So, we're hiring and our open-requisition list is getting longer. Come work for a great company that's in the hippest area of downtown Toronto (King West). We have tonnes of restaurants (Thai, Indian, Lebanese, Korean, Japanese, Fusion, French, ...) within three blocks of the office. We also have great bars, patios, galleries, baseball, soccer.
Contact hr-careers@uptimesoftware.com!
Okay, I lied, this blog entry is to praise our staff... To our fantastic employees, you guys rock.
Something else that's really good for us is that referrals from the tech community started to happen a few years ago. We're pulling great talent from other local software businesses. People like it here because we are a performance oriented organization and smart work (not necessarily long hours) gets recognized. Opinions and dissent are encouraged, as everybody has a very clear picture of what kind of business we want to be. At our operations meetings, if everything seems to be going okay and everybody agrees, then we know that something is wrong or we're not challenging ourselves enough. A while ago, our development manager was telling one of his staff about voicing opposition to "stupid ideas," and how it took our dev manager a long time to realize that telling his boss (me at the time) he had a stupid idea was perfectly acceptable.
So, we're hiring and our open-requisition list is getting longer. Come work for a great company that's in the hippest area of downtown Toronto (King West). We have tonnes of restaurants (Thai, Indian, Lebanese, Korean, Japanese, Fusion, French, ...) within three blocks of the office. We also have great bars, patios, galleries, baseball, soccer.
Contact hr-careers@uptimesoftware.com!
Okay, I lied, this blog entry is to praise our staff... To our fantastic employees, you guys rock.
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1 Comments:
Although I do not work for Uptime (I do know Alex and have worked with him and for him in the past), I'll gladly go on record saying this post is true. Alex is a stand-up guy, and working with them was a lot of fun. If you want to work for an company as described in this post, then you definitely want to apply.
It is nice to see companies that encourage and promote working environments like this. It is a great change from old corporate culture, and makes coming into work something to look forward to. It is why I have been where I am for 4 years now.
-mike.
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