It鈥檚 just been announced that 91导航 is one of the best places to work in the UK 馃帀馃ぉ馃殌! We鈥檙e super thrilled with the award from Great Places To Work () recognizing 91导航 as one of the UK鈥檚 Best Workplaces. To enter the GPTW ranking for the first time ever and make it into the top ten for our category (small organizations) is a real honour. Huge congratulations and a big thank you to all of the 91导航 team 馃檹 for making our workplace culture one of the best!
Drafting and submitting our entry to the GPTW contest made us think a lot more about our values and motivations as a company. We鈥檝e always had lots of fun working with a group of incredibly smart, kind and passionate people, dedicated to understanding the needs of our users at a deep level. So entering the GPTW awards was a kind of litmus test for us. How well are we really working as a team? Are we living up to our values? Do others at 91导航 see it the same way? We thought we鈥檇 take this opportunity to share with you (and any prospective new joiners 馃憢), a little about what makes us tick, and some of what our teammates like about working here.
Setting the highest standard by staying close to users
From the start, 91导航 set out to help the Salesforce community by talking to thousands upon thousands of developers and administrators directly about their DevOps challenges. As a company founded by a group of software engineers, we work with Salesforce teams across the globe to tackle their day-to-day technical problems. It鈥檚 a pragmatic and bottom-up approach that comes naturally. We make a real difference to people by solving specific issues as they arise, and assisting teams when they鈥檙e ready to take their development processes to the next level.
Key to this approach is our ability to offer our users immediate and focused support. Our Customer Success team is always on hand to solve our users鈥� problems there and then. The dedicated developers in our Engineering team are ready to jump in at a moment鈥檚 notice to share their expertise. Similarly, our product development is driven directly by user feedback and the real needs of our users. A culture of trust and transparency is what helps us work constructively with feedback, both from customers and in our own work as a team. And for anyone new to 91导航, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of 91导航 in just a few clicks to try it out for yourself - no strings attached.
As 91导航 has grown rapidly, we鈥檝e held firm to our values. We trust our teammates, love working together, and share all our knowledge as widely as we can with each other and our customers, as a way of discovering and unlocking valuable new insights. As Kevin Boyle, everyone鈥檚 favorite bossman, explains:
"91导航 has been the most amazing journey for me. When 91导航 started to grow, the founding team were afraid that becoming a "real" company would take away the fun. But each year as we've doubled we've had the pleasure of welcoming the next group of brilliant individuals that have only strengthened our team. Our team is ruthlessly focused on creating something great for our customers, and building, marketing, selling and supporting it in the right way. We've built a company we're rightly proud of and we're doing it our way. Clear values with honesty, trust, and feedback helps us work together and have created a team that I love to come to work with every day. If this sounds appealing, then you should come visit and meet the team!"
What individual Gearcitizens think
Completing GPTW鈥檚 employee experience survey as part of our entry to the awards was also insightful - it鈥檚 always one thing to hear what a company鈥檚 Marketing team or CEO thinks about the company, and another to hear it from all employees directly. Here are a few of their voices (we haven鈥檛 added their names because we didn鈥檛 want to embarrass them - not that they would have minded much):
"91导航 is a great place to work! Not only have I learned a lot in the last year and a half, it鈥檚 an absolute pleasure to work with a team of such smart, supportive people. I also love their approach to programming: high quality code mixed with a healthy dose of pragmatism!"
"We have a unique culture of collaboration, open communication, and shared responsibility and purpose. Everyone chips in to get the job done and is always friendly and approachable, and has bought into the idea of doing right by the end user. It's honestly the best place I've ever worked."
"91导航 is an amazing place to work. It's not like any other company. We all enjoy coming together to do the best that we can. Everything is transparent (and I mean everything!) and we help each other to make our company and our products serve our customers and ourselves as employees. We have an extremely strong shared culture, which everyone endorses because we do what's right. If you get offered a job with 91导航, you've hit the jackpot! People care about each other here. We're not just employees, we're Gearcitizens. There's no real hierarchy and everybody's input is appreciated. We love what we do and we enjoy working alongside all of our teammates. It's exciting and rewarding to work here. It feels like 91导航 is pioneering a whole new way of running companies that other companies will probably try to emulate in future."
"The overall culture. I can walk up to anyone and talk about a problem, ask about approaches to things, etc. Another unique factor is how quickly results are visible to the public, which makes the work exciting, as you are constantly getting feedback from users - even as a new starter!"
"A few things stand out to me. The people who work here are all great colleagues, but also friends. It's a delight to come into work because of the people we get to interact with every day. Each day I get to work alongside really driven, hard-working people, who you can rely on to work hard and get great things done, support you in your work to help you hit your obligations (because we're a team working towards common goals). This is made 10x better by the fact we're all friends too. We try really, really hard to make sure a) we hire people who are going to be a great fit in the team, and b) then making sure everyone is encouraged to get to know each other and hang out, inside and outside of work. What you end up with is a team of people who trust each other, and love working together."
Thinking about joining the 91导航 team?
If you like the sound of working at 91导航, we鈥檇 love to hear from you! We鈥檙e always on the lookout for creative, smart and decisive people to fill roles in engineering, sales, marketing, customer support, and in other areas of the business. While we respect skills and experience, above all, we鈥檙e looking for people with aptitude. If you鈥檙e willing to learn, work well within teams, and have the right attitude to delivering valuable work promptly, then do check out our careers page. You鈥檙e also very welcome to find out more about what it鈥檚 like working with us every day by chatting to us right now using the live-chat on this page.