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Challenges in fast growing tech companies
Tomas Kazragis discusses the challenges of fast growth at tech companies. Key challenges include handling high volumes of traffic with thousands of servers and meeting response times of under 20 milliseconds. The company has grown from 50 employees in 2015 to over 450 currently across 7 data centers globally. They focus on attracting and developing talent through internal academies and programs that provide employees freedom and accountability at work. This includes freedom to choose projects, learn new skills, and organize work, all within a culture that values team results, ownership, and being open and dynamic.
Challenges in fast growing tech companies
- 1. CHALLENGES IN FASTGROWING TECH COMPANIES Tomas Kazragis
- 2. QUICK FACTS 50.000.000.000+ Transactionsper day 1.000.000+ Requests per second 3000++ High performance servers Complex calculations per request needed in less than 20 ms 7 data centers across the world High availability load balancing and failover 40 Gigabits per second internet consumption
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- 4. GROWING TALENT POOL Technologypart growth January 2015 – April 2016 Target for end of 2016 – 450 employees worldwide
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- 7. YELLOW BELTS Success story:http://blog.adform.com/adform/yellow-belts-18-months-of-wisdom/
- 8. TALENT ACQUISITION Company positioning: http://life.adform.com/ Openpositions: http://join.adform.com/ Internal referrals Sourcing: a Meet-ups & conferences Head hunting Follow talents
- 9. INTERVIEWS Agreement between: Team Peers Leads Behavior &attitude vs Skills
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- 11. VALUES Team results first Ownershipmindset Open, informal & dynamic a
- 12. TEAM RESULTS FIRST NOfor brilliant jerks
- 13. OWNERSHIP MINDSET Flat networkorganization: DevOps instead of DEV vs OPS Everyone contributes instead of controlling & reporting It is my business: create -> release -> maintain -> improve
- 14. OPEN, INFORMAL &DYNAMIC New initiatives and ideas Plans, roadmaps Finances Lessons learned Sharing information Fast adaptation Work hard – party harder!
- 15. RETAIN, DEVELOP &EMPOWER
- 16. TEAM FREEDOM ANDACCOUNTABILITY AT WORK Constantly improve the way we work Share and gain feedback Participate in decision making Balance between proficiency and learning Commitment Share knowledge
- 17. FREEDOM TO CHOOSE Useinternal service Do it yourself: Present Try Get challenged Create a service Get it outside the company
- 18. FREEDOM TO CHANGE Learnnew things – books, conferences Choose next me program Try new experiences – internships Move on Don’t forget to change!
- 19. FREEDOM TO ORGANIZE Everyfunction tends to become a bottleneck You can try to solve them, but it’s a never ending story Give freedom for teams to organize themselves
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- 21. PROVIDING SERVICES INSTEADOF OPTIMIZING AROUND YOURSELF Imagine you have to earn money Try your customer’s shoes Develop with 2x capacity in mind Rework is expensive and hurts morale Time costs as well
- 22. THE WAY WEWORK
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- 29. SOLUTION: MATURE SELFSERVICE
- 30. LOOKING FOR AROLE MODEL Within a team – “I want to become like you…” Outside the company – “How are you doing this?”
- 31. CHANGING PERSPECTIVE Instead ofwondering: How big is big? Can I buy? Can I refactor? What can I expect from tomorrow? Do I have a mandate? Go and ask!
- 32. CONCLUSIONS • Decentralization speeds-upgrowth • Happy employee leads to good results • Constant investment in employees ensures extra mile • Freedom goes well with ownership mindset • Transparency prospers in open environments • Freedom leads to innovations • Monitoring is a key for complex and dynamic environments • Technology is a team sport