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Working at Everli according to Tech Lead, Mihai Tuhari: A Pioneer of Remote Work

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It’s difficult to get a real sense of what it’s like to work for a company from just reading the job description or researching the product. We wanted to give a deeper, more personal insight into working at Everli, something that covers more than just the tasks and tech. Mihai Tuhari is one of our Tech Leads who has been with us for almost 5 years. We spoke with him about a whole host of topics, including his career journey so far, and why he’s going to be Everli’s most annoying Romanian customer. Ever.

Meet Mihai

Mihai is 33 years old and lives in his hometown of Bucharest, he started with Everli back in 2017 and is considered one of our pioneers of remote work. He’s self-taught, having started coding aged 15, and has worked remotely for companies as far flung as Australia.

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How Everli sets up remote employees for success on day one

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As a remote-first company, the Everli team knows how important it is to make our team members feel welcome from day one. Research tells us that a good onboarding experience can help retain employees for longer and keep everyone motivated. As a fast-growing company who has hired 118 new employees so far this year, it’s even more important that we pay extra attention to this process.

So, how do we onboard employees remotely, the Everli way?

All new team members get a tailored onboarding plan

The first day in a new job can be a bit daunting. In fact, it’s almost like the adult version of going to a new school, but without mum or dad to make the snacks! There are new tech systems to get used to, new names to remember and so much information to process on day one. 

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How to scale a tech team, the Everli way

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Everli was founded in 2014 in Verona, a lovely city in Northern Italy. Tech was the first team at Everli to go fully remote (back in 2017) and this wasn’t an employer branding gimmick, it was out of simple necessity. To find the team of our dreams, we had to look beyond Verona where there is a much smaller startup scene than other European cities. 

As CTO, I faced the huge challenge of scaling an engineering team in a city where there were not many engineers, and where it was tough to convince engineers to relocate to. In 2017, we were a team of eight people based in Verona. Today, in 2021, we are an awesome global team of 62 engineers with 12 nationalities and people based all over Europe. Here’s what I learnt about how to scale a remote tech team.

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Firebreaks, shall we?

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When I’ve started writing this article, it was already outdated; as a matter of fact, during these days the 2nd Edition of the Firebreaks is happening.

Firebreaks were one brand new initiative that we tried for the first time three months ago; you may have already read something about it, but we never had the chance to properly describe what is it, why we decided to do that and how it works.

First of all – as you might guess – we didn’t invent this ceremony; on the contrary, it is something that we copied and adapted to our organization.

In short, Firebreaks are a huge, challenging and inspiring initiative, with all the Engineering, Product, Design and Analytics teams involved.

Now that I hope I’ve got your curiosity, we can dive deep into it!

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Firebreaks – the spark 🔥

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Firebreaks

Recently, the R&D Team at Everli embraced a super challenging initiative that we call Firebreaks! 🔥🔥🔥🚒

This served as a natural breakpoint as teams wind down their old missions and prepare to start their new ones. It’s an excellent opportunity to pursue other work that’s of interest to them and of value to the organization.

Our colleagues ventured into several workshops and tested themselves in a five days sprint!

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To Remote And Beyond!

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I’ve thought a lot about writing on remote work in Supermercato24.
I know that this topic has already been extensively discussed, examined and studied; I honestly think that it should not be considered and described every time as the new thing, but unfortunately it seems that there are a lot of concerns and fears (some of them are actually reasonable) around it that sometimes prevent it to be supported and implemented.

Supermercato24 is an Italian scale-up born in late 2014, we have just overcome the 100 employees threshold and our technical team (25 people at the time of writing) is fully remote; if we’re specifically considering the Italian startup ecosystem, I can say that we were among the first to believe in this work philosophy.

Behind the word remote there are many related aspects and the theme is certainly wide and complex; hence we’re going to split it into a series of blog posts, making it easier to dive deep into its different faces.

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