Remote First Company Culture with Marleen Kappert & Sebastiaan Bekker

Beyond Coding

Connect with Marleen Kappert:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marleenkappert

Connect with Sebastiaan Bekker:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiaanbekker

Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/CwiDLWboAvs

New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode!

OUTLINE
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:28 - Work and holidays
00:03:03 - Hotel and restaurant industry
00:04:54 - Differences in tech organisations
00:06:15 - Early in career program at Xebia
00:09:56 - Hiring globally
00:11:33 - Everyone is working from anywhere
00:12:55 - Keeping the culture
00:14:38 - Culture is ever-evolving
00:16:26 - Behaviour and values
00:18:22 - Workshops on virtues
00:20:13 - Understanding the business as a developer
00:21:57 - Remote working challenges from the development side
00:23:35 - Being deliberate when you work remote
00:25:05 - Marleen set up the people experience team
00:27:26 - Openly discussing challenges
00:29:48 - The way of working within a team
00:31:51 - Wherever people work, mistakes happen
00:34:45 - Having a clear purpose
00:37:12 - The challenge to align everyone
00:39:54 - Remote town halls are challenging
00:41:56 - Processes that change when companies grow
00:44:43 - Being flexible in the way you communicate
00:47:02 - Patrick's memory of working in diverse teams
00:47:51 - How Marleen and Sebastiaan started working together
00:49:31 - Talking about systems
00:50:23 - Not taking things personally
00:53:26 - High quality interactions within a team
00:55:37 - Rounding off