Spartez Open Day March 13th 2015

Present ourselves

Get to know you!

Demystify!

Intro: Spartez Story (20 min)

Office Tour & Team Intros (60min)

Jobs @ Spartez (10 min)

Debunking Recruitment Myths (30min)

Q&A (20 min)

Socializing (…)

Agenda

Quiz

The Spartez Story

2005

2006-­07

2007

2007.08

First direct contact - blog & e-mail

2007.10

Przemek BielickiPaweł Niewiadomski

Jacek JaroczyńskiSławek Ginter

Wojciech SeligaPiotrEK Maruszak

Łukasz GumińskiMarek Went

Janusz Gorycki

700

SOLIDARITY

PASSION

SACRIFICE

HONESTY

2012.12.7

2007.12

????

2007.12

2009.09

Our online shop my.spartez.com released!

!

Agile Scrum Cards Print 1.0

Certified ScrumMaster Training led by Henrik Kniberg

2010.03

ScreenSnipe 1.0 released

2010.07

2010.08Meeting Room 1.0 released

2011.05

1.0

2012.05

2012.06

2012.09

2013.03

2013.06

2014.02

Open Company - No Bullshit

Don't Fuck The Customer

Be The Change You Seek

Great Place to Work

Simplicity

Why Spartez

Values

People

Challenges

Full Responsibility

Global Impact

Good Compensation

Passionate Users

Culture

Good Compensation

Good Compensation

Jobs @ Spartez

Board

FishEye & Crucible

Bamboo JIRA Spartez Products

Principal Product Manager

Software Architect

QA engineer

UX designer

Principal Dev

Senior Dev

Product Manager

Senior Web Developer

Senior Dev ManagerWeb Developer

Web Developer

Senior Java Developer

Java Developer

Talent & Administration

English

Web Developer• Understanding Javascript, DOM and the

browser dynamic behaviour

• Not JQuery spaghetti master, instead designing modular code

• Knowing some backend stuff - big advantage. We love full-stack guys

• Master of CSS, HTML5 and various tempting technologies

• True engineer, not tinkerer

Java Developer

• Understands how Java (JVM) really works

• Loves code craftsmanship, but aware of tradeoffs - pragmatic thinking

• Competent with concurrency and networks

• Has good holistic grasp of Java-based web servers & related technologies

Product Manager

• Experienced (3+ years) in managing software product in mass market

• Technical (software) background is a big plus

• 7+ years of professional experience in the industry

• Product Manager IS NOT Project Manager

• Market/customer focus vs. process/resources focus

Principal Product Manager

• All requirements for Product Manager

• Very experienced in managing software product in mass market (5+ years)

• Experienced in managing people (ideally other PMs) and hard decisions making

• 10+ years of professional experience in the industry

QA Engineer• Quality Assistant, not Quality Assurance

• Critical thinking, risk identification, user thinking and exploratory testing expert

• Bug prevention and process improvement mindset and experience

• Can think from user perspective

• Very technical and with a lot of attention to detail

UX Designer

• Understands principles of good UX design

• Proficient with design and research techniques

• Passionate about elegant design

• Understands HTML, JS and CSS - can prepare their own prototypes

• 3+ years in similar role

Development Team Lead• Hands-on guy, at least as good as a senior

developer

• Capable of leading pizza-size team

• Experienced with Agile methodologies

• Awesome at cooperating with various people and teams

• Motivates his people and helps them be better

• Interested in bigger picture

Senior Development Manager

• Has not lost his development guru superpowers

• Loves leading teams/people and making them better. Does it successfully (proofs).

• Experienced with Agile and Lean methodologies (several years or more)

• Deeply interested in new trends in our industry (technologies and methodologies)

• Passion for understanding and shaping the big picture and sharing it with others

Dev seniority

Focus Technology ProductSolving

problemCustomer

Defining the right problem

Needs assistance

IndependentTeaching others

Impacting the company

Technical capability

Quality Code L&FLow Level

System DesignUsability

ExtensibilityArchitecture

Maintainability

Technical innovation Passive

Local Introduction

Team Buy-in

Company Community

Junior Mid Senior Principal

Knowledge Span

Fragments of the stack

Most of the stack

Complete stack and some elements

of other stacks

Various stacks (deeply!)

Bugs Surprised Disappointed Expecting Leveraging

Dev seniority - cont.

WatchingQuestioning & proposing

Changing teammates

Changing company

Process Improvement Change Agent

Big Picture Learning*Product

understandingDomain

understandingDomain expert

(innovation)

Stance Arrogant “Sokrates”Open to Criticism

Critical

Typical Experience

1K - 5K hours 3K - 12K hours 7K-20K hours 15K+ hours

Junior Mid Senior Principal

Teaching/ mentoring

Receiver Interns & Juniors Whole teamAll people

(also outside)

Estimation Eager Questionable Careful

Reluctant Pessimistic

Iterative Narrowing

Office TourSee you at 18:00

Debunking Recruitment Myths

Dev Interview Process

Online Test F2F Tech Interview

Live Coding Test

Managerial Interview

Cultural Fit Interview

Offer

Application

Dev Manager Interview Process

Online Test F2F Tech Interview

Soft Skills & Process Int.

Syd PM+DM Interview

GM Interview

Offer

Application

Product Manger Interview Process

Screening Questionnaire

F2F Initial Interview

PM Interview

PM + DM Interview

GM Interview

Offer

Application

Spartez doesn't bother about soft skills, which

are so important

Myth

Spartez asks many stupid or irrelevant questions during the

interview

Myth

Spartez destroys candidates during the

interview

Myth*

Spartez proposes to everyone way too low

positions

Myth

Spartez does hire women (hate?

complex?)

Myth

Spartez recruitment process is very long

Happens

Spartez hires only students

Myth

Spartez rejects everyone - hiring needs

are fake

Myth

Spartez prefers only very experienced (old) folks for more senior

positions

Myth

Spartez doesn't read CVs. Spartez automatically

rejects candidates.

Myth

Spartez offers lower salary than advertised

bands.

Myth

Your turn!

Special guests

• Graham Carrick

• Andrew Semple

Thank you

Have a good time this evening at Spartez!