We just did a round, very simple: both of the founders sit down with each and every employee individually and ask a couple of questions:
- what was the thing you did last year you have been most proud of
- what is the thing you did last year you have been the least proud off
- what did we do as a company that you think was great
- what did we do as a company that you think was bad
We got great feedback and engagement on these sessions.
Now obviously this wont work if you have a decently sized head count but in our case it worked just fine over the course of a week or so.
I think what you're doing is a great exercise, culturally, but I wouldn't use it to assess anyone's performance objectively.
What happens if you have a great employee who finds it difficult to articulate on these points? Would you have to hear through the grapevine that they were doing great things? What if you have someone who is a poor employee but can talk the talk?
Fast growing startup looking for Ruby-on-Rails engineer (for our Rotterdam/Netherlands office)
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Fileboard is a fast-moving technology startup based in Silicon Valley and the Netherlands. We are innovating and disrupting the sales domain. Backed by some of the best known investors in the USA, the company is on a hyper growth path. Founded in 2011, Fileboard launched its platform over a year ago and since then has acquired some high profile customers (both small and big).
For our Rotterdam office we are looking for a RoR engineer to help build and take our product to the next level. You'll be part of a small but highly effective product team that likes to roll up their sleeves and get stuff done.
Who are you:
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* Entrepreneurial mindset
* Team player with a winners mentality
* Always learning, trying out new technologies
* Proven experience building and scaling web apps
* Customer focused and genuinely want to help people
You get things done
* (tired of all those boring enterprise software projects)
What do we offer:
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* A great adventure in startup land and a peek into Silicon Valley lifestyle
* Awesome working environment to grow and learn
* Entrepreneurial team with previous exits (and failures) under their belt
* Much room to steer the direction of the product and architecture
* Unlimited vacation days
* Oh yeah... a competitive salary and stock options
Bonus points:
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* Did your own startup and failed
* Experience with Node.JS / MongoDB / Redis
* Frontend experience with Ember.JS
* Can do or want to learn iOS/Android development
Interested?
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Shoot us an email hello at fileboard.com with your resume and github account.
