Life at CloudBoost.

Our culture, and what it means to be a remote-first company.

Working with a remote company has some serious perks. Wearing your pyjamas till noon, working from the comforts of your cozy room, the shortest commute to work from your bed to your desk, and being close to family all day and much more.

Despite the many advantages, there are some serious challenges that we need to overcome too. Its easy to be a 2–3 person remote team, but when you scale — being remote is both rewarding and challenging at the same time. Implementing a strong, tight-knit company culture & processes helped us a lot in overcoming those challenges. Here’s how we do it:

We’re a geo-distributed team

CloudBoost is a remote first company. We discover and hire talent from all around the world and this is the primary reason why we prefer to be a remote. We’ve had employees working out of Chile, Africa, Nepal, United States, India, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Canada and more. We want you to spend as much time as possible with your family and with your spouse. Life’s too short to be spending time away from them. You can work out of home and have a shortest commute to work or we sponsor a co-working space near you. This not only gives you the comfort of home while working but also saves a ton of time and money that you might have otherwise invested in travelling to and from office. Invest those hours doing something you really love doing — be it reading a book, or playing a guitar, or anything that makes you tick.

Focus on your growth

CloudBoost is very flexible when it comes to employee satisfaction and growth. Your growth is our paramount priority. If you don’t like what you do, you can switch to other projects or even other teams. Not just this, you can switch verticals as well. So, if you’re an engineer and if marketing makes you tick, we would love to have you there. If you would like to bounce ideas with marketing team, for example. They’re all ears!

Here, someone you report to focuses on your growth making sure that you learn something new every week. Once you are in the team you are a part of us, you are a family. We push you to the edge so you learn every single day. We want to grow you into an ‘A’ level mangers who can manage teams at scale with us. That’s the only way we can manage company’s growth too!

On the tech side, you’re building a platform that is used by thousands of apps around the world. Our engineers here learn how get feature requirements from our customers, write and move code from development, staging and to production all in the same day — incredible isn’t it?

Fly Weeks

One of the biggest challenge of a remote company is isolation.

In an office culture, it is incredibly easier to get our heads together, to meet peers over coffee or lunch. People know each other and feel completely involved. This is very challenging in a remote first culture.

We fly the company once every 3 months for two weeks at an exotic place where they work for two weeks together. This is the best of both worlds, you stay with your family + you meet your peers.

I’m writing this post from Goa, India and this is the view from my balcony right now.

View from my balcony in Goa, India. Its stormy out here.

Not only does it brings together the whole team, it also fulfils one of our strongest desire to travel around and explore the world literally for free.

This is how we work together, and get things done!

Transparency

At CloudBoost salaries of all the employees are transparent, public and visible — including the founder. Founders make sure they make tax documents public every year to the entire company and they’re compensated equally to every team member in the company.

All of our departments are public — you can learn whats happening on sales and on marketing even if you’re an engineer. You can even talk and brainstorm with sales and marketing team too!

KPI and metrics visible to the founder are also visible to everyone in the company.

Company revenues are internally public too.

Company goals are set every year and are internally public for everyone to see, we also make sure personal and professional goals are set every quarter and you can see goals of your peers too!

Vacations

Last week of December, we want you to spend your time with family and friends to celebrate Christmas and welcome the new year. We have paid time off every year so that you don’t have to worry about your work while you are celebrating.

Feedback

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”- Lord Kelvin

We take feedback from all our employees every quarter — what they like about working here, what they want to improve on, and which new processes they think should be implemented. Here our employees build our culture and processes, we let them build the company and have them in the driver seat. The best part is, all the feedback is then made public, so we can learn from each other.

Before starting the feedback process we communicate to the team on how much we were able to achieve based on the feedback taken last quarter and this makes sure that all the feedbacks are being worked upon.

Flexible work timings

We believe in complete flexibility of work timings. We have a 40hr/week work policy and encourage everyone to get their task completed in this time. You can actually work anytime of the day you like, or even take a day off in the middle of the week and work on weekend instead.

Goal Setting

Every team member is required to choose three goals for every quarter. Two of which are professional goals and one is the personal goal. It exposes the expectations of a person from the company as well as with themselves helping them measure their progress when they rate themselves out of 10 based on how much they were able to achieve. We urge our team to be ambitious when choosing their goals.