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Adam Nowak
November 23, 2016
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20x more people around. Highlights and challenges of the fast growing team.
High level overview of the evolution of Netguru in the last 5 years (2011-2016)
Adam Nowak
November 23, 2016
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20x more people around. Highlights and challenges of the
fast growing team.
2 ABOUT ME Hi, I’m Adam. Head of Technology in
Netguru
3 ABOUT ME Started working with 10 people We have
200 people right now 5 years in Netguru Context
4 Services Internal structure The way we hire Management Culture
Evolution
5 of our services Evolution
6 SERVICES Product (Humanway) + web development services
7 SERVICES Ruby on Rails outsourcing
8 SERVICES Full stack
9 SERVICES Full stack consulting company
10 of our internal structure Evolution
11 OUR TEAM Dev = Dev + PM + QA
+ PO In the beginning there were devs…
12 OUR TEAM They do alltheotherthings! … and our founders
(Kuba and Wiktor)
13 OUR TEAM Web Developers Mobile developers Frontend Developers Dev
Ops Sales Project managers Quality assurance Recruitment Office / Operations Content Marketing / Growth Internal & External Community
14 of the way we hire Evolution
15 RECRUITMENT Opportunistic hiring
16 RECRUITMENT HR/Recruitment person
17 RECRUITMENT Grow from 50 to 100
18 RECRUITMENT Open salaries policy
19 RECRUITMENT Workshops
20 RECRUITMENT Success! 100 people
21 RECRUITMENT Recruitment team
22 RECRUITMENT Petardowy ™ onboarding
23 RECRUITMENT 100 -> 200
24 of the management Evolution
25 MANAGEMENT Core People do „reviews” „Face 2 Face” meeting
every quarter Personal goals V2MOMs (Vision Values Methods Obstacles Metrics) Meetings
26 MANAGEMENT Team Leaders
27 MANAGEMENT Heads
28 MANAGEMENT Senior Leaders
29 of our culture Evolution
30 CULTURE Remote first
31 CULTURE Bi-weekly meetings
32 CULTURE Email updates
33 CULTURE Team retreats & hackathons
34 CULTURE Automation
35 CULTURE Code of Conduct
36 5 key values What made it possible?
37 Trusting people and delegating stuff
38 Throwing people in at the deep end
39 Hunger for growth and openness to change
40 Great people & atmosphere
41 Processes
42 _ ALMOST THE LAST SLIDE „The only constant is
change” Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher
43 netguru.co/newsletter facebook.com/netguru twitter.com/netguru THAT’S ALL! Thanks!