Success is all about people.
Our recipe and secret sauce.
After the investment by strategic partner WIKA, an intense growth phase began for us. As far as the team is concerned, this entails challenges in terms of organisational structure and processes. Indeed, as the number of people increases, complexity inevitably increases, even more so, as in our case, when you are working on extending your product portfolio. The people at LORIOT, once again, are facing this new circumstance with great resilience and a spirit of cooperation.
Skills they had already proven at the beginning of our history, our early days as a startup, when we decided to build a distributed team across different cities (and countries), or during the COVID-19 unprecedented global crisis, when, suddenly, the entire team started working remotely from home. On that occasion we did very well, better than expected actually, so much so that the increased flexibility remained as the 'new normality' and the offices, which we kept, are now a benefit for the team.
Credit for these excellent results goes to the passion and commitment that everyone puts into their work.
These very different situations have allowed me to reflect on how important the team is to a company and on how we did so far.
In fact, and I have no doubts about that, one of the most critical (and gratifying at the same time) tasks we had to perform since LORIOT establishment has been building, managing and growing (with) our Team.
Now more than ever, attracting and retaining talent is essential for reaching our goals such as maintaining the high-quality of our LoRaWAN Network Server and our public infrastructure with our Professional Public Server as well as the development of the brand new mioty service center (released in private beta and soon publicly available).
We strongly believe, and this is particularly true in small organisations, that to work towards ambitious goals effectively, the key factors are shared values and talented people who complement each other, who stimulate each other’s curiosity for new technologies, plus eager to grow both personally and professionally by acquiring and further developing soft and hard skills. Independently from the role nor job description.
Communication and cooperation are a must but, especially in small company, autonomy is also very important, in many cases we proved that the solutions to technical or commercial issues as well as important business opportunities had to come from team members’ initiatives. We promote teamwork as much as personal impulses and intuitions.
And we want to keep it that way despite our current expansion.
For us the attitude of a candidate is as important as the know-how that he/she offers, possibly even more important.
A specialist who is not a team player and doesn’t fit our corporate culture will not work effectively in the long run and will end up generating frictions rather than value. It’s just as simple.
The typical questions we ask ourselves before hiring a candidate is: does she/he fit in the team? Is she/he a good match?
To answer these questions, it’s very important that the best candidates also have an interview with the future teammates and not just with HR and direct managers.
This does not mean that we do not support diversity. On the contrary, we see diversity as a value. Our team is extremely international, with people from 10 (ten!) different nationalities and completely different backgrounds. As a company, we are open to all people regardless of age, gender, religion, food regime or any other biases related to a candidate's personal characteristics that are unrelated to their job performance.
Despite operating in over 150 countries around the world, we are still a small company in terms of headcount.
Despite being a small company we are a global company and our team is currently spread over several locations with main offices in Zurich, Valencia and Budapest.
The hierarchy is flat, information is widely shared among the whole team, we provide feedback freely and key decisions are collective.
At LORIOT we are committed to motivate our workforce by creating a positive and energic workplace, we do like hearing from our team members that remote working is an option that helps a lot the work/life balance but they enjoy going to the office!
These are some of our main values:
We think to our team as a family. Our LORIOT family.
We celebrate company’s successes and milestones as much as personal achievements and anniversaries. As a company, our people always come first, as a team we nurture relationships with each other and try to meet regularly, even outside working hours, and foster the spirit that keeps us so united.
At LORIOT we are always in hiring mode.
Over the last 6 months we’ve incorporated 9 new people in our team: 6 in Valencia, 2 in Budapest and 1 in Zurich, and we have other openings available as we are experiencing a significant growth and have ambitious goals in front of us.
Actually, we keep looking for great and genuine people even when we do not have team scale plans in the short period, we want to be ready for new projects and new challenges and that’s only possible if you plan ahead.
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