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Day to Day work in the SI dev team
Most applicants want to know how we work day to day, so here’s a quick overview. Nothing unexpected really, but if you’re considering to apply at SI, this is for you! :) Dev Meeting We meet once a...
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How we plan and prioritize our work
Inevitably, all good applicants ask us this question: “so, perks aside, how do you actually plan and prioritize your work at SI?”. First of all, we need to consider our overall goal: “We want to build...
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Pragmatic “user testing” at SI
We’re not religous about user testing, and most of our smaller features only go review by one or two people before getting deployed. But larger features can get a special treatment, and here’s how we...
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Unexpected UX session with the customer success team
Being a distributed team we can never communicate “too much”, so we’re making it a habit to always share news and recurring things like meeting minutes on our intranet. But the best thing is when...
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Our new office has doors.
We’ve loved our old office because it was very pretty, and its open layout allowed us to grow from 3 staff to 11 while being very flexible with our desks. We’ve hosted our international team members...
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Boom! Five new developers on one day.
The hiring drought in our Berlin HQ is over! Our development team just grew from 8 to 13 developers, and we’ve been able to find a perfect mix too: We’re joined by two Java developers (Alison and...
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Meet our two new subteams
As our company grows and evolves, so do our best practices. In this episode: Team Delineation. Early days’ bliss Until very recently, all our customer-facing staff were assembled in one team of 5. I...
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Distributed work is hard. Company retreats to the rescue!
Working with distributed teams is hard. A key ingredient to helping teams gel is the good old company trip. Here’s how we do it. TLDR: Meaningful work plus some fun – not the other way around. It’s...
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How our bonuses work
After paying bonuses for almost 5 years now, I recently realized I had never written things down internally. So I did that in our intranet the other day, but since I keep explaining the system to...
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Company Trip to Toronto and Montreal, and lessons learned
It was time for something new! Previous trips had led us to San Francisco both in 2015 and 2016, and to New York and Boulder in 2013 and 2014. Sure, the US is our largest market, but a bit of diversity...
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