Generally speaking, job seekers’ must-have lists have evolved to include more than an attractive salary and benefits program. These days, job seekers also want a positive company culture, learning and growth opportunities, and long-term job stability.
While securing a position at a company that offers all of the above may seem far-fetched, it’s certainly not impossible. Just ask the following five tech professionals. Whether they’re fairly new to the company or a partner sitting in the C-suite, each person has found the landing spot that best suits their needs.
Continue reading to determine whether the following Boston area tech companies would be a good match for you and your professional must-haves.
Workhuman is a SaaS company designed to provide customers with a platform for revolutionizing improvements in company culture. The cloud-based platform features tools for continuous performance management including social recognition, conversations, service milestones, life events and community celebrations.
What was the deciding factor for you when you accepted your job at Workhuman?
There were so many factors that it’s hard to pick one. But if I have to pick, I’d say it was knowing I would be working with like-minded, kind-hearted professionals who are great in their fields. Workhuman is definitely a place that fosters connection and recognition on an ongoing basis, in addition to offering great employee benefits.
It’s truly amazing that a company values people’s whole selves, and it’s a privilege to be a part of that mission.”
Looking to the future, what excites you most about where your company is headed?
What excites me most is the opportunity to champion creating more human workplaces regardless of where you work or who you work with. Whether remote or in-person, Workhuman wants to ensure that employees are seen and recognized for their efforts, while also celebrating non-professional facets of their lives. It’s truly amazing that a company values people’s whole selves, and it’s a privilege to be a part of that mission.
ChaosSearch delivers insights at scale. The company’s data platform connects to and indexes data within a customer’s cloud storage environment, rendering it fully searchable and available for analysis with existing data tools.
What was the deciding factor for you when you accepted your job at ChaosSearch?
I was interested in both the people who work here and the technology. Having been a big data and infrastructure engineer, I have always wanted a tool like ChaosSearch. With the introduction of new storage technologies like S3, I found that storing data is easy, but extracting useful information and knowledge from it is hard. I think ChaosSearch will be revolutionary to how we think about knowledge and empower organizations to learn more and learn easily from their data. On the people end, one of my best friends from college also works at ChaosSearch. I’ve really enjoyed working with them in the past and wanted to work with them again. So far I’ve been really impressed by the experience and skillsets of the team we’ve assembled at ChaosSearch. There are a lot of folks for me to learn from.
Because we leverage a cloud deployment architecture, we can achieve tremendous scale with ease.”
Looking to the future, what excites you most about where your company is headed?
I am really excited about how much ChaosSearch will fundamentally change how people view data analytics. We will be offering more features and more ways to help customers learn about their data in the coming quarters. Furthermore, because we leverage a cloud deployment architecture, we can achieve tremendous scale with ease. As a member of the ChaosSearch platform, I am excited about building an infrastructure for our product that can serve many more customers and make it more secure, reliable and scalable. At the core of all of these, I am the most excited about growth. That’s my favorite thing about startups: I get to write good software and see it grow and delight our customers.
Quickbase helps companies achieve operational agility. Its no-code platform enables organizations to improve operations through real-time insights and automation across complex processes and disparate systems.
What was the deciding factor for you when you accepted your job at Quickbase?
When I was on the hunt for a full-time role, I was searching for a company where I would learn a lot, and have creative freedom and ample growth opportunities. And because I had previous experience with Quickbase — I’d spent six months as a marketing co-op here — I knew it could provide me with all of that.
What really drew me in was that promotions are about ability, not necessarily tenure. As far as learning, since we are constantly experimenting and pushed to think big by marketing leadership, I knew that I would have plenty of opportunities to try new things, test and learn. And lastly, each employee is a subject-matter expert in their role, which is really empowering. We all own our projects, present them, evaluate their performance and decide where to go next.
We have such a strong, passionate community of customers who are evolving their organizations with our product.”
Looking to the future, what excites you most about where your company is headed?
I’m excited most about the opportunity Quickbase has in the market and the growth track of the no-code/low-code industry. The need for faster innovation is here and our product directly solves that challenge. We have such a strong, passionate community of customers who are evolving their organizations with our product — enabling their teams to respond faster to changes and drastically increase efficiency. I’m very excited to see our user base grow, but more so to see our customers innovate and solve real world problems like vaccine distribution or semiconductor sourcing with the Quickbase platform.
Trellis is a full service e-commerce agency designed to help companies optimize their online presence and enable customer conversions through a variety of web services, including strategy, design and development.
As a tenured employee, what has been the biggest reason you’ve stayed at Trellis so long?
Besides being a partner in the business, the growth that Trellis has experienced over the last few years has provided an unbelievable opportunity for personal and professional growth. I’ve always looked for ways to challenge myself throughout my career and helping this company double in the last few years has been some of the most challenging yet rewarding work. As we’ve experimented with new offerings, structures and ways of managing teams, it’s kept me engaged in my role every single day.
Looking to the future, what excites you most about where your company is headed?
One practice that we’ve recently built into our business is creating a career advancement strategy for our employees. It’s rooted in helping our team members not only further their position within Trellis but also building skills that will translate to growth in the rest of their careers. These are built on four key pillars: functional advancement, seniority advancement, role advancement and compensation advancement.
Experimenting with new offerings, structures and ways of managing teams has kept me engaged in my role every single day.”
While we’re still early in our work on this program, we’ve already seen our team thrive as we’ve worked them through this framework, particularly when helping them explore role advancement tied to their strengths and interests. I’m very excited about driving this program for our team in the coming years.
Through artificial intelligence and deep machine learning, PathAI’s platform is designed to help pathologists diagnose and treat diseases.
What was the deciding factor for you when you accepted your job at PathAI?
I joined PathAI because of the extremely passionate and talented people on the team. I can always count on my colleagues to work on the most impactful and challenging problems that affect patients’ lives. Every day is an opportunity to learn and grow.
Every day is an opportunity to learn and grow.”
Looking to the future, what excites you most about where your company is headed?
PathAI is entering a growth phase where we are scaling our systems and planning to operate at a much higher throughput. It’s very exciting to see how our products will grow and to be able to help solve the technical challenges that arise from digital pathology at scale.
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