Working At Codespring
How often did you think about what you consider to be the best thing at the company you are working for?
Well, we think about it daily because we want to have a motivated and high performing team.
We discovered that there are two categories of „best thing” in working with us:
- the important things category
- the important and nice things category
A. the important things category
Here we include, according to the studied priorities:
People & teams – if there is something you should come and work with us, that definitely is the TEAM in capital letters. We are young, dynamic, skilled , friendly and fun. On top of all these, our leaders are experienced people always ready to raise the game.
Atmosphere and flexible hours – healthy attitudes, joyful spirits and common intellectual backgrounds build a very nice and cosy atmosphere, where each individual can express its personality. Flexible working hours allow anyone to deliver work at his peek productivity time. The idea is to deliver quality work in everything we do.
Working conditions and benefits – these are the big reasons for which we come to work: payment, opportunity to grow a career in the profession and the benefits package: sport programs, technical trainings and soft skills trainings.
Other… – where we like to mention international experience, communicative management, concern for the members of the team and concern for embracing new technologies.
B. the important and nice things category
This category includes most of the fun and relaxing activities:
Trips and Adventuring
LACUL ROSU 2007. In May 2007, we celebrated Codespring Days by going in a four days trip at Lacul Rosu, near to Cheile Bicazului and Gheorgheni. Along with our colleagues and their partners, we were hiking at the nearest beautiful mountains, we went to the famous “Lacul Rosu” lake, drank a lot of bear, and had fun together at every night parties. Last day, we went in a small trip to Cheile Bicazului. Besides relaxation, we played football, ping – pong and the most brave ones sang at a funny Karaoke session. We felt good, because this company days offers for the whole team the chance to be together, to forget about everyday’ s working environment and the chance to get to know each other better and to consolidate relationships.
SUIOR 2008. In May 2008, the whole team went to Suior, near Baia-Mare, in a picturesque environment, where our colleagues had the chance to play football, basketball, tennis and billiard. Also, we organized a paintball game; which was a challenge and adrenalin infusion for both of the teams. Paintball it’s a game that strengthen the character, during which the players learn about team spirit, gain confidence in themselves, develop leadership skills and also have a lot of fun along with stress liberation. After the challenge of daily hiking, those who needed a long hot bath, used the hotel’s Jacuzzi. We couldn’t miss the late night parties and the last night’s campfire, and at the end of the four days trip we all felt that bounds between us are much closer together and a better team spirit had been established between us…
Short trips and picnic
VALEA IERII – 2008. In September 2008 we organized a smaller, one day trip to Valea Ierii for our colleagues and their mates. We had a yummy grill party, after that we played football and basketball. Some of the colleagues went hiking at the near mountain. At the end of the day we set a camp fire, where we have been drinking spiced hot wine and we were laughing a lot.
Christmas Parties
At the end of each year, at the Christmas party we celebrate together our successes, dance and have fun until morning. Along with the party, we make a briefing about the last year, and we set our goals for the year to come.
Teambuildings
Sports
- football
- basketball
- paintball
- bowling
- table – football
- ping – pong
After the everyday work activities we often spend our free time together playing football, basketball and bowling.
Everyone has to recreate during and after working hours; that’s why our colleagues had the opportunity to play table-football and ping-pong anytime they feel the need for a short break.
Occasionally, our team has the chance to play a good, revigorating paintball session. This is a challenge and adrenalin infusion for both of the participating teams. Paintball it’s a game that strengthen the character, during which the players learn about team spirit, gain confidence in themselves, develop leadership skills and also have a lot of fun along with stress liberation.
Other team-building activities
- karaoke
- game parties
- movies
We also spend our quality time together seeing movies, singing and laughing at karaoke sessions, and playing different skill – developing games.
This activities bring us the feeling that we are a big family in which everyone feels great and has a lot of fun.
Codespring Open Days
Our company had opened his doors once again for the graduate students of the Faculty of Mathematics – Informatics from Babes-Bolyai University & Faculty of Automation and Computer Science from the Polytechnic University Cluj – Napoca on June 4, 2009, to present them our software development projects.
We had the opportunity to show to the graduate students what means to be and to learn in a working environment, to show them the running Codespring projects, and also to train successful students for the future of the company. This means that we have to put our best know-how, so that the students to gain the best practice possible.
During the last Codespring Open Day, organized in June 4, 2009, our project managers made a briefing about the company’s open projects, and answered to the technical questions of graduate students. After that the participating students visited the company’s development rooms, the server-room, and than they played a table soccer cup with our colleagues.
Summer internships
Year by year, we select and employ only the best graduates; for this an important role represents our cooperation with the Babes – Bolyai University, Technical University and further well-known educational institutions from Cluj-Napoca. Our selection process is mainly based on the identification of the most talented, passionate specialists, willing to build up a successful career in the middle of a winning team
Company Presentations (for graduate students )
We yearly organize a company / project presentations at local Universities, namely we organized last year a Company presentation at Babes – Bolyai University, which was followed by a wine & cheese tasting break. Our guest was Mr. Bárdos Attila, project manager from Vico Sofware Hungary; who kept a presentation about the Vico Software’s award-winning Virtual Construction™ software, which helps building owners and general contractors reduce risk, manage cost and shorten project schedules. The unique 5D technologies, developed by our colleagues provide unprecedented integration of design, construction and management processes, are improving project predictability; providing early identification of construct-ability problems and synchronizing design, cost and schedule. Following the presentation, the participants – mostly interested students – had the opportunity to gain knowledge about our company, our software development projects, got answers to the possible questions, and made an overall picture about our company and running projects.
Trainings
The management of the company understands the importance of personnel and professional growth and therefore encourages the employees to fulfill their dreams and aspirations. That’s why we organize regular technical trainings, so that our colleagues to get in touch with the newest technologies, and also to excel in the most used ones. Beside technical trainings we keep regular soft-skill trainings, like: communication, time management, project management, problem–solving and leadership / conflict-management trainings, s.o.
We understand the difficulty of managing people, resources and equipment in today’s competitive business environment; that’s why we think that soft skills trainings should represent an important part of our company’s training program.
Being flexible and able to adapt to the changing needs of organization also qualify as soft skills, as do being able to collaborate with others and influence situations through lateral and more creative thinking.
Soft skills are transferable to the workplace; also they can be developed on an on-going basis through good training, insightful reading, observation and of course, practice.
Jobshops
Our company regularly participates at different editions of local job-shop for the students, but not only in different towns of the country. Our goal is to present our company’s running projects to those interested and we always focus on recruiting the most talented people, or those who have potential beginning with their student’s years.
One of the best ways to make yourself known and meet peers in the industry is participating to national and international exhibitions and fairs. Our goal is to be up to date with trend and markets while becoming a proud representative of Romanian Software Development industry in the world. Some of our records on this activities are stated below:
- CEBIT 2010
- CORKMEET Ireland 2009
- CEBIT 2009 – (2009.03.03 – 08)
- CEBIT 2008 – (2008.03.04 – 09)
- SYSTEMS 2008 – (2008.10.21 – 24)
- GARTNER – LONDON 2008 – (2008.06.02 – 04)
Language classes
We have more than 50 experienced professionals who are members of well organized teams. All of our colleagues are dynamic, well skilled software engineers with high quality IT education. They all speak English and most of them speak also a second or third foreign language (German and Hungarian for example).We are focusing to enhance their language knowledge, that’s why we organize for those who are interested regular English and German classes, which are a bonus from the company.
