A short gig at Mister Spex
I did a 6 month Interim CTO contract for Mister Spex. Mister Spex a German online optician.
The company is not really small and got more than 1000 employees, runs their own warehouse and so on.
Still. I really felt welcome working with everyone there. It was a very friendly way of collaboration. Still people were really focused and got stuff done. The company put also big emphasis on showing gratitude to their employees. An example were gift packages sent to the employees for xmas. This was not really easy because of Covid, but it was nevertheless done.
I sometimes work with companies where this is different, but Mister Spex really shined!
Company culture defined
But it got even better. During my short stint at Mister Spex I used Star Wars backgrounds during our videochat meetings. Mostly backgrounds of the dark side.
And when I left I got a small good bye gift: A small Lego Yoda. Pretty amazing.
It's all those small things that make a great company culture.
More:
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/raphaelabauer_how-to-tell-that-you-are-dealing-with-an-activity-6758008885950328834-drGd