Innovative companies are reshaping the employment landscape in the bustling heart of Boston’s dynamic job market.
The city, synonymous with history and innovation, is not just a hub for education and healthcare but also a burgeoning center for technology and engineering.
According to CompTIA’s 2023 State of the Tech Workforce report, Boston ranks sixth in top metros by the sector’s economic impact. Meanwhile, over 11,000 tech companies are located in the area.
Large and small companies thrive in this fertile ground and are actively seeking talented professionals to join their ranks. From salespeople and developers to UX designers, there’s a growing demand for skilled individuals ready to contribute to forward-thinking goals.
A company’s core is not entirely derived from its products or services but instead from its culture — an invisible yet powerful force that influences all aspects of work life.
Nasuni and Formlabs set a high bar with their people-first company cultures and commitment to employee growth. In candid conversations with two professionals, they explored how these organizations foster environments that prioritize learning, growth and curiosity.
Where opportunity meets talent, these companies are not just offering jobs; they are crafting careers.
Nasuni provides hybrid cloud storage solutions, offering scalable and secure data management centered on operational excellence, ransomware protection and support for remote and hybrid work environments.
Describe your company culture in one word. What made you pick that word?
Humility.
I’ve never seen an organization with such a dedicated team approach as I have during my time at Nasuni. Everyone is ready to help in any and all ways possible, regardless of rank or department. Just today, a junior rep was preparing to run a solo customer call, as his sales engineer was unable to join at the last minute. A more tenured regional sales manager from a completely different territory heard this and immediately offered to sit in and assist on the call. This is above and beyond his job responsibilities, but he did not hesitate for a moment to offer help.
While it seems like such a simple example, I’ve found that often in technology sales, a company’s culture can suffer due to the competitive nature of this industry. This could not be further from the truth at Nasuni; everyone helps everyone, though we still keep a healthy level of competition that drives us all to work a little harder to pull a win for Nasuni.
What stood out most was the clear path I could see for career growth.”
How long have you been with the company, and what professional growth or development have you seen in that time?
Because I’m a more recent hire, my interview process still stands out as an essential element of what drew me to Nasuni. What stood out most was the clear path I could see for career growth. Nasuni has invested in their employees’ goals to grow their careers, whether promoting within current teams or even moving into a different department.
They truly provide everyone with unmatched opportunities. Since starting, everything I’ve seen has just further confirmed this for me. From my peer mentors to conversations with executives, it’s extremely evident that the Nasuni leadership team cares for their employees, and the company has been around long enough to provide the stability of a large organization with the grit and determination of a startup. I think this pairing is what makes Nasuni so special and allows individuals like me to see tremendous opportunities for growth and development.
Formlabs develops and manufactures 3D printers and related software. The company, founded in 2011 by MIT Media Lab students, connects creatives across industries with powerful fabrication tools.
Describe your company culture in one word. What made you pick that word?
Curious.
A handful of my colleagues and I recently went to a candle-pin bowling alley and brewery near the office after work. Most people in the lanes around us were focused on knocking down the pins. For us, a good deal of the night was spent debating how exactly the automated pin-setter machine works. A few balls were thrown not in pursuit of the lead but to substantiate theories about how the system handles gutter balls and other edge cases. Despite an underwhelming scoreline, we had a great time, and they had to kick us out at the end of the night.
I think that’s just ingrained in the culture here. Formlabs is full of engineers who are innately and thoroughly curious about how things work — we can’t even turn it off at after-work drinks. It makes the culture at the office intrinsically fun to be a part of, and I think always asking “why?” and being genuinely curious to understand the answer makes us design the right products well.
Formlabs is full of engineers who are innately and thoroughly curious about how things work.”
What’s the coolest project you’ve worked on recently, and how did it help you grow professionally?
I have been at Formlabs for a year and a half. I started as a full-time individual contributor on the hardware test engineering team, and about six months in, I also became the technical program manager of a subsystem in which I had been the test engineer. Our objective on the test team is to figure out how and why something on a product will break and then fix it well before a customer ever interacts with it.
Having my foundations in the test team has helped me as a new program manager to constantly question my assumptions and scrutinize systems for their weakest point. Starting off as someone who breaks things professionally has helped me to lead robust and reliable products.
My next project at Formlabs will be managing an even bigger and more exciting R&D program. It’s been a very short ramp to a lot of responsibility. One thing I love about Formlabs is that if you are up for a challenge, you will receive a challenge. I appreciate that my managers have always pushed me to step outside my comfort zone and provided me with the resources and support to grow into new challenges.
