Every year, we are waiting for spring to enjoy of one of the best spaces of our office in Madrid: the terrace. Of course, this year wasn’t any different.
Posts tagged "Behind the API"
ShuttleCloud 7th Anniversary – Congrats Team!
ShuttleCloud founded in May of 2010 by Eduardo Fernández and Carlos Cabañero, is celebrating its 7th anniversary.
Since that time, the team has worked hard to achieve incredible goals, such as working with industry leaders like Google, Yahoo, and Comcast, amongst others. On a daily basis, ShuttleCloud migrates more than 31 million emails and 3.4 million contacts for its partners.
Slack as Key Resource for Engineering Teams
I don’t think you would be surprised to hear that ShuttleCloud uses Slack. It has become one of the main communication tools in our daily workflow and we are very happy with it. Some people I have met lately have had some negative experiences with it and ask how we managed to use it so extensively.
How Is The Engineering Hiring Process at ShuttleCloud?
At ShuttleCloud, we’ve had several openings in the past 5 years. We’ve made a lot of mistakes in all of them. As always, we try to learn from our mistakes. We take everything we do as an iterative process: try, fail, learn; try, fail, learn.
In the last opening, we’ve tried to create a hiring process we can feel proud of. Particularly, I keep complaining about the stupid processes our industry has. Namely, whiteboard programming, processes with more than 5 technical interviews, tricky questions, rude/arrogant interviewers, etc….
Below, we want to share with you what we’re doing in ShuttleCloud to hire two new software developers.
How to Build a Productive Team Far From Burnout
I’ve worked in enough companies and I’ve had enough managers to realize that there is a common pattern. Most companies expect people to be productive, respectful, and have a good attitude, but they don’t implement the needed actions to promote those outcomes.
It Takes a Whole Startup to Raise a Data Scientist
The other day, I read a blog post—an extremely amusing one, in all fairness—mocking the startup world. I’m sure it has ended up on your Twitter feed; it uses a certain swear word in every line. Yup, this one.
It got me thinking, which can only mean trouble ;). Seriously, it did get me thinking: yes, there are some perks and attitudes in startups that lend themselves to mockery and some personalities who can be easily caricatured. But if I were you I wouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, not just yet. Wait until you read this blog post, at least.
So, the Office Manager Wants to Become a Data Scientist, Say Whaaat?
Building a Learning Culture
Imagine yourself in the following situation. You know your team, their strengths and their weaknesses. You know which members need to improve and in which areas. Like most, your team is made up of a variety of people: members who are eager to learn, who read everything they find, and others who don’t, for any number of reasons.
Even when you try to remind them to spend work time learning—remember, improving is part of the job—they don’t do it. They always have too much to do and can’t find the time.
“My goal was to explore future features for ShuttleCloud’s products”
Thanks to a partnership with the EIT Master´s Programme in Data Science, ShuttleCloud has had the opportunity recently to work with Philipp Eisen, a smart young engineer who has helped us explore new potential features for our products.
Philipp Eisen (22) is studying the EIT Master’s Programme in Data Science organized by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT).
What Makes an Office a Better Place to Work?
After seeing how our office shapes our behaviours and promotes our culture, my curious mind wanted to know what was behind all this. Now here I am, about to share it with you lucky people 😉
I promise I’ll avoid expressions like, “it’s not an office, it’s an experience,” that will make you want to run a mile.
Behind the API: Pranks
Another month, another post. The team has been working hard but between meetings, coding, and learning sessions there has also been time for meetups, traveling, and joking around—especially for joking around.
Things don’t get boring around here often, as there’s always someone ready to have a laugh and take the rest of the team along for the ride. Once the prank wheels are in motion, there’s no way to stop us.